Today, as a result of a detailed investigative activity directed by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of North Naples, personnel of the Provincial Command of the Financial Police of Naples carried out a preventive seizure decreeissued by this Prosecutor’s Office, concerning credits deriving from the benefits provided for in the field of Superbonus, for over 93 million eurosboasted by 7 legal entities in their capacity as first transferees.
The measure was issued urgently to protect the credit reserves lying around
“tax drawers” of the companies involved, also in light of the absolute concomitance of the offending negotiations, which mostly took place in the months of March and April 2024. In particular, the investigations – carried out by the GdF Group of Frattamaggiore under the direction of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Naples North – made it possible to ascertain how the credits were attributable to tax bonuses for construction work (of energetic redevelopment, restructuring and seismic adaptation), of the Superbonus type, never actually performedmostly boasted by companies without any corporate consistency and financial solidity. In some cases, however, the credits claimed by the companies were also sold by 4 individuals who had already died at the time of the negotiation.
Fraudulent transfers communicated to theRevenue Agency Furthermore, on behalf of the companies, they carried the same transferors, as clients of the works. In this regard, the investigators deduced the fictitiousness of the credits from the insights of some owners of the properties subject to the elusive construction interventions, who were sellers for amounts exceeding one million euros despite having received, at least on paper, renovation works for a single unit housing.
Overall, seven people are under investigation for the crime referred to in art. 640-bis of the penal code.
With the execution of the precautionary measure, a huge fraud against the State was defused, through the seizure of the credits present in the “tax drawers” of the relevant holders, as well as those transferred by them to third party assignees. Today’s operation follows to the results of a similar delegated investigation which has already led the Department, between 2022 and 2023, to seize a total of approximately 1.5 billion euros, in relation to the circulation of fictitious credits for renovation and energy efficiency works, provided for by the Legislative Decree
34/2020 (so-called “relaunch” decree).
The illicit activity identified, which corroborates criminal conduct already widely monitored by the Financial Police, is of such gravity as it is capable of causing significant damage to public resources in the sector of implementing the ecological transition, which is crucial for the country.
The provision is one precautionary measure ordered during preliminary investigationsagainst which appeals are permitted, and the recipients are people subjected to investigations and therefore presumed innocent until a final sentence is reached.
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