The requests of the public prosecutor Vincenzo Russo were accepted by the investigating judge Argenio
by Paola Iandolo
The Avellino Prosecutor’s Office, led by the prosecutor Domenico Airoma, requested and obtained a quick trial against the alleged members of the “network” organized by the accountant P. V. for the Covid relief scam. The Gup of the Court of Avellino Giulio Argenio accepted the requests made by the prosecutor Vincenzo Russo. Therefore, immediate judgment was ordered against the five suspects: for the accountant PV In total Vuolo together with another IR professional and three “front men”. The five are accused of having defrauded – with the contributions provided for by the Sostegni decree and the Sostegni bis decree – approximately 1,190,000 euros, after having falsified the incomes of 2019 and 2020.
The investigations
The investigation by the soldiers of the Fiamme Gialle of the Avellino Group, coordinated by the prosecutor of the Avellino Prosecutor’s Office Vincenzo Russo against four companies that in 2021 had submitted an application to take advantage of the economic support measures intended for those affected by the epidemiological emergency “COVID-19”. through a series of VAT declarations aimed at revealing a turnover never achieved in 2019.
The accusations
The two, according to the prosecution, falsified the invoices to obtain the non-refundable resources allocated by the government for commercial activities damaged by the pandemic. The four people arrested by the Avellino Financial Police thus collected almost one million two hundred thousand euros. In particular, the investigations, directed and coordinated by the Avellino Public Prosecutor’s Office, made it possible to demonstrate that the two professionals had implemented a complex fraud system in order to obtain the benefit allocated in the Covid emergency, through the presentation of requests , by the companies involved, in which an average monthly decline in turnover between the years 2019 and 2020 was falsely declared, which then allowed the illicit receipt of contributions for a total amount of €1,190,968.00.
