AGI – Judicial troubles for Aumaithe best known Chinese supermarket chain which has points of sale throughout Italy. The Monza Financial Police arrested its owner Chen Wen Xu on charges of tax fraud through false invoices with tax evasion quantified in addition six million euros.
A manager is under house arrest and three others have been reached by the measure of the ban on entrepreneurial activity and by ban on expatriation. The financiers are implementing a provision in the provinces of Monza, Brianza and Brescia preventive seizure of over 6 million euros, equal to the alleged illicit profits, and to a preventive seizure of financial resources from the twenty paper mill companies involved. Overall, the fraud would amount to 20 million euros.
The investigation by the Monza Prosecutor’s Office has reconstructed an alleged fraud system in the healthcare sector clothing tradeorganized through a dense network of ‘filter’ company created for the use of invoices for non-existent operations, distributed throughout the national territory and managed by Chinese citizens with no criminal record. These ‘filter’ companies, identified by the financiers on the basis of searches and accounting and IT analyses, would have had an operational and legal appearance but in fact would have been devoid of company structures such as premises, warehouses, offices and employees and assets for the exercise of the declared entrepreneurial activities. Their sole purpose would have been to operate, under the direction of the suspects to allow the companies owning the supermarkets to avoid evasion, 14 companies which, against an annual turnover of 60 million, would have used invoices for non-existent operations for over 20 million evading taxes of 6 million between 2019 and 2020.
