Financiers from the Provincial Command of Trieste carried out a preventive seizure of fictitious tax credits with a total value of 3,750,000 euros. The provision – issued by the Office of the investigating judge of the Court of Trieste, at the request of the Prosecutor’s Office – had the aim of preventing the monetization of the tax credits, all accrued in 2021, originated by falsely certifying on the electronic portal of the financial administration, the execution of building recovery works connected to the so-called “facade bonus”, together with the request to make use of the option of transfer to third parties. Thus, in order to illicitly benefit from the construction bonuses connected to the transfer of accrued credits, initially permitted and subsequently limited by the Government Authority starting from 2022 through the introduction of effective corrective measures from a regulatory perspective, a construction company outside the Region was able to cumulate a significant nominal amount of fictitious tax credits which, through subsequent transfer transactions to third parties, were ultimately “monetised”.
It was precisely the careful analysis of the management of an individual company based in Trieste, which operates in the thermo-hydraulic sector, which led the soldiers of the Economic-Financial Police Unit to identify and meticulously reconstruct all the operations preceding the purchase of a tax credit with a nominal value of half a million euros, transferred by the construction company that had fraudulently originated it. The crimes committed against not only the Julian businessman, but also twelve other subjects involved in the sale of fictitious tax credits resident in Veneto, Lombardy, Piedmont, Emilia-Romagna and Calabria, are attributable to aggravated fraud against the State , self-laundering and reuse of illicit proceeds unduly received.
