A complex system of fraud by numerous entrepreneurs, mainly operating in the southern Pontine area, based on systematic invoicing of fictitious sponsorships, was revealed by the men of the Latina financial police in an investigation coordinated by the Prosecutor’s Office.
The investigations made it possible to reconstruct overall false invoicing for over 17 million euroswith the aim of obtaining, for large amounts, not only the evasion of VAT and direct taxes, but also the avoidance of contributory and social security obligations.
In particular, the activity, conducted by the Fiamme Gialle of the Compagnia di Fondi, involved 114 subjects including companies in the area and amateur sports associations of various disciplines (football, table tennis, basketball, skiing, volleyball, handball and cycling) located in the entire territory of the province of Latinawho, according to the investigative hypothesis, would have resorted to the use of “false invoicing” to document fictitious costs with the purpose,
for commercial companies, to reduce the operating profit (in some cases even generating losses), and for sports associations to take advantage of the relief regime to finance themselves by paying taxes on only 3 percent of their total commercial revenues and paying VAT at 50 percent on taxable operations.
From the first reconstructions of the facts, the sports associations would have signed contracts with the sponsoring companies, committing themselves to posting advertising banners at the various fields or playing structures and on the uniforms of players or athletes on the occasion of sporting events or events that have never occurred or without any media impact or external projection.
In addition to this, which is the main thread, further irregularities were hypothesized following the examination of the accounts of some sponsoring companies, with reference to various invoices relating both to purchases of raw materials from companies existing only on papertotally unstructured in terms of human and material resources, often domiciled in non-existent places or addresses, and to the illicit supply of manpower by companies created for the sole purpose of absorbing the social security and social security contributions that would otherwise have fallen to the main companies.
Based on the elements collected, the Judge for Preliminary Investigations at the Court of Latina, at the request of the Deputy Public Prosecutor, he ordered preventive seizure against some of the suspects aimed at the confiscation, directly and in the form of “equivalent”, of money and goods equal to the value of the tax evaded for an amount of over 400 thousand euros .
114 people were therefore reported for the crimes of Fraudulent Declaration through the use of invoices or other documents for non-existent operations and 8 for Issuing of invoices or other documents for non-existent operations.
For some of the subjects, the conduct of “self-laundering” was also hypothesizedwith regard to the reuse of money or financial resources deriving from illicit activity.
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