The business was not going well for an entrepreneur from the province of Latina who operated in the road haulage sector.
He had already accumulated over 3 million euros in debt, of which 2 million were with the Treasury alone. And the taxman was already asking for the bill.
At this point, to defraud the tax authorities and creditors, the entrepreneur decided to transfer all the assets of his company and also his personal ones to his children, who had set up two new companies.
Investigations by the Guardia di Finanza of Latina
What attracted the attention of the financiers of the Compagnia di Fondi were the numerous transfers of real estate and vehicles that had been arranged by the indebted company, now on its way to bankruptcy, in favor of the two new joint-stock companies just established managed by the sons.
However, complex information, analysis and accounting examination activities were required to collect detailed evidence that demonstrated how these operations were merely instrumental stratagems designed specifically to allow the indebted company not to pay its debts.
The Financial Police declares:
“from the investigations carried out, also characterized by feedback and dynamic activities in the area
as well as from the analysis and cross-referencing of results from the databases, a unitary management of the companies involved was revealed, reconstructing the movable and immovable assets transferred between them, quantified at a value of 1,044,000.00 euros”.
Thanks to the results obtained from the investigations, the judicial authority then ordered in-depth searches of the companies and people involved.
The data acquired convinced the Judge for Preliminary Investigations of the Court of Latina to request the “preventive seizure aimed at the direct and “equivalent” confiscation of the money and assets fraudulently transferred.”
The financiers thus proceeded with the seizure of 12 vehicles (road tractors, tractors and semi-trailers), 9 properties and approximately 5 thousand euros available in personal and corporate current accounts to give full capacity to the entire amount of over 1 million euros involved of the preventive seizure requested by the GIP.
The Judicial Authority will therefore now proceed with the judgment against the entrepreneur and the two sons, in competition, for the hypothesis of crime referred to in Article 11 (Fraudulent evasion of the payment of taxes) of Legislative Decree 74/2000.
The AG will also judge the entrepreneur for the accusation of “self-laundering”, referred to in the art. 648 ter 1 of the penal code, because he is guilty of reusing the goods and money deriving from the illicit activity.
Naturally, a court will then have to judge all these accusations. Until then, the presumption of innocence remains valid for the accused.
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