The financial police of Monza have implemented a precautionary custody order in prison ordered by the investigating judge at the Court of Monza against the owner of Aumai, a well-known chain of Chinese supermarkets spread throughout the national territory and with sales points in Milan, the best known one is in Piazzale Loreto. The man is accused of fraud for 20 million euros with 6 million euros in taxes evaded, in just two years, thanks to a complex system of false invoices. The investigation which involved five people with four other subjects reached a precautionary measure.
The entrepreneur, manager and collaborators arrested
The precautionary measure involved, together with the owner of the chain of shops, a manager of Chinese origin, subjected to house arrest, two compliant collaborators, also Chinese citizens, banned from carrying out business activities and another suspect for whom he was there is a ban on expatriation.
Preventive seizure
Some searches are underway, also with the help of “cash dog” dog units (a money-sniffing dog) between the provinces of Monza, Brianza and Brescia. A preventive seizure order was also issued aimed at confiscating assets worth over 6 million euros, a figure equal to the hypothesized illicit profits that would have been made thanks to the involvement of twenty “paper mill” companies involved.
A turnover of 60 million euros and maxi evasion
The investigation, coordinated by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Monza and carried out by specialists from the Economic-Financial Police Unit of Monza, made it possible to reconstruct a complex “multi-layered” system of fraud in the clothing trade sector, structured through a network of companies (“issuers” – “filter” – “beneficiaries”) aimed at using invoices for non-existent operations, located throughout the national territory and managed by citizens of Chinese origin with no criminal record.
Fake companies
A network of “filter” companies has emerged, i.e. companies “apparently equipped with an operational and legal capacity, but in fact without company structures (production units and premises, warehouses, offices), employees and assets instrumental to the exercise of entrepreneurial activities declared.
