A complex system of false invoices to obtain tax credits by exploiting construction bonuses, with hundreds of companies having replicated it from north to south Italy. The Savona Financial Police has shed light on the intricate scam that led to the preventive seizure, ordered by the judge for preliminary investigations, of approximately 1 billion euros, on the tax collections of 311 economic subjects involved who held the tax credits , accrued mainly with ecobonuses and facade bonuses, and obtained with false invoices for work still to be carried out on properties owned by various citizens of the Ligurian capital. The scam was then replicated in other regions, not only in the north: Piedmont, Veneto, Lombardy, Trentino Alto Adige, Tuscany, Emilia Romagna, Lazio, Campania and Puglia, a scam so large as to require the intervention of over 250 soldiers on the national territory to carry out 85 searches at the offices of companies and their legal representatives. In many cases the companies that invoiced the work – never carried out – and requested bonuses were “ghosts”, without properties and total tax evaders. There were also various irregularities among the people involved: some were recipients of citizen’s income, others had been convicted of crimes in the public spending sector, and still others had agreed to obtain credit with their family members.
