The Siracusa Financial Police discovered a scam that would have been implemented with the benefits of the 110% superbonus and preventively seized around 13 million euros, an amount corresponding to the value of the real estate and fictitious tax credits relating to the superbonus.
The economic-financial police unit of the Finance Department investigated two real estate sales contracts stipulated as buyers by a married couple, dating back to 2020 and 2021: in both cases it involved a building in a state of abandonment and the adjoining agricultural land.
Husband and wife, who are under investigation for fraud to obtain public funds, would have liked to build a luxury wellness & spa resort, consisting of apartments, a large hotel, a multifunctional area, a restaurant and a wellness centre.
“Immediately after the signing of the deed – says the Gdf – the establishment of two condominiums based in the province of Syracuse and Ragusa, of which the woman was the representative, was registered in the tax registry; after having obtained the local authorizations, the building renovation works, with demolition and reconstruction of properties in order to transform them into residential and tourist accommodation facilities”.
The two presented requests for the tax benefit of the Superbonus, obtaining recognition of a credit equal to 110% of the amount spent on the works”. The financiers would have ascertained that before the signing of the two deeds the spouses “proceeded, without having yet title and with the help of some compliant professionals, to the cadastral subdivision of the two buildings through the establishment of 118 new subordinates compared to the original 4, with the sole aim, as the investigations have shown, of obtaining a far greater tax benefit compared to the amount due”. The regulation of the 110% Superbonus – says the Gdf – allows you to benefit from a maximum amount per single real estate unit equal to 96,000 euros. In fact, where the properties had not been divided up, with the (fictitious) establishment of the common management body, the suspects would have been able to take advantage of the benefit for a maximum of only four real estate units for an easily obtainable total of a few hundred thousand euros. However, the division implemented by the two new condominiums was merely formal, given the absence of a real division (electrical systems, drains, water pipes) between the constituent real estate units”.
According to the accusation “with the help of professionals, consultants and the companies that had carried out the work, two very important speculative real estate operations were carried out, financing them entirely at state expense”.
