GALLARATE – Smuggling of luxury cars: five supercars with Swiss license plates seized. They are worth 800 thousand euros. The cars were in use by car rental companies operating in the Gallaratese area. The investigation, carried out by Gallarate Company of the Financial Policewas started with the analysis of luxury cars circulating in the relevant territory in order to verify whether customs requirements and those required by the highway code had been respected.
Aggravated smuggling
From the elements collected by the patrols operating in the area, it emerged that for the five luxury cars (Porsche Macan, Porsche 911 Carrera 4s and Mercedes Classe G63 AMG V8, Lamborghini Huracan and McLaren 570S) nothing had been presented to the relevant customs by the car rental companies that owned them, thus allowing the circulation of these vehicles in total evasion of border duties, quantified in total over 250 thousand euros. Therefore, since the cases identified constituted the crime of aggravated smugglingthe machines were seized and those responsible were reported at the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Busto Arsizio for violations of the Consolidated Law on Customs Law.
Distorted market
Fraudulent conduct identified is particularly distortive of the market as it allows one to obtain undue tax savings by omitting the payment of border duties (import duties and VAT) and by exercising unfair competition towards other economic operators due to greater competitiveness deriving from the lower costs of cars non-EU due to the more favorable tax regimes of these countries.
The kidnapping
The operation of the Fiamme Gialle, as the only institution capable of transversally valorising the information assets contained in the tax, customs, currency and police databases, was developed according to the operational device of the Corps in the context of combating tax evasion by leveraging the specific economic-financial police functions and was conducted transversally from both an administrative-customs and a criminal perspective with the consequent preventive seizure of assets aimed at confiscation, which is mandatory in the event that the criminal proceedings conclude with the conviction of the suspects.
