Two entrepreneurs arrested as part of the investigation into the alleged crimes of fraudulent bankruptcy and money laundering in supermarkets. This morning (29 April), following a detailed investigative activity directed by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of North Naples, delegated to personnel of the local Judicial Police section – Aliquota Guardia di Finanza – and to the GdF Group of Aversa, a an order for the application of personal and real precautionary measures against local entrepreneurs operating in the supermarket sector.
As a result of the investigations, indications of criminality emerged – against the entrepreneurs – in relation to distinct hypotheses of fraudulent distraction, documentary bankruptcy and multiple malicious operations, consisting of the systematic and repeated failure to fulfill tax obligations for over 337 thousand euros. Hypotheses of self-laundering are also disputed, as the entrepreneurs diverted the entire company asset and reintroduced it into three separate companies, which turned out to be clones of the bankrupt company.
Furthermore, the two clone companies were charged with administrative liability for crime, as a consequence of the crime of self-laundering committed by the top figures in their interest and to their advantage. The ascertained liabilities are equal to approximately 654 thousand euros towards creditors, in addition to the amount due to the Treasury.
In relation to the high level of objections, MP and FV, directors in law and in fact of the companies involved, were subjected to house arrest, as well as to the measure of the obligation to stay LRK, MP, PG and MP, also entrepreneurs operating in the sector of supermarkets that competed with the first two in committing the crimes in question. At the same time, two clone companies of the bankrupt company, based in Aversa, were seized and the direct and equivalent preventive seizure of sums totaling 120,325 euros was ordered.
The investigation is part of an intense line of investigation launched by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Naples North into serious episodes of bankruptcy and money laundering by entrepreneurs who have companies based in this area. To this end, a protocol was approved – signed by the President of the Court and the Public Prosecutor of Naples North – on the transmission of information flows following the entry into force of the new business crisis and insolvency code, aimed at give further investigative impetus to the fight against so-called ‘business crimes’. The commitment of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Naples North is constant in this sector, in synergy with the Guardia di Finanza, aimed at combating the illegal economies that pollute the economic fabric of the territory.
