VARESE (ITALPRESS) – At the conclusion of the economic-financial police operation conventionally called “easy slot”, the financiers of the provincial command of Varese, delegated by the Prosecutor’s Office, carried out a preventive seizure measure, also by equivalent, against 2 natural persons, for a total of almost 5 million euros (4,761,000 euros), as well as the disqualification measure of the ban on carrying out business activities or holding management offices of legal entities for 12 months against the two main suspects issued by the investigating judge of the Court of Varese. The investigation, explain the yellow flames in a note, originates “from the ‘concessionaire’ company for the creation and management of the network for the electronic management of legitimate gaming which filed a complaint with the Varese prosecutor’s office against a manager responsible for the ” of the slot halls in relation to the hypotheses of embezzlement and misappropriation crimes for the failure to pay the Pr.EU (acronym for single tax levy or a tax applied to amusement and entertainment machines) and for the misappropriation of the cash fund , stored inside the AWP machines also known as new slots, constantly connected to the monopolies’ telematic network”. Normally, the system requires the manager to proceed, on the one hand, with the removal of each individual device, withdrawing the coins contained therein corresponding to the total amount played by customers on that device in a given period, net of the winnings simultaneously paid and, on the other hand, to the payment to the Concessionaire who is required, in turn, to pay the amount due to the Treasury as concession fee and Preu, and who therefore remains guarantor of the correct fulfillment of the obligations taxes by the Manager.
Following the investigative findings that emerged from the first investigations carried out by the financiers, a local and personal search decree involving 10 individuals and 6 companies was executed. From the analysis of the seized documentation, the chats found on mobile phones, the outcome of the bank investigations and the declarations made by those informed of the facts, “the existence of a criminal association was contested which, through the establishment of some operating companies in the gaming collection and management sector, they guaranteed a continuous movement of money for commercial operations involving the provision of services and the purchase and sale of companies that were in fact non-existent”. Among other things, during the searches, coins totaling 201 thousand euros were seized, relating to the illicit theft of funds held inside the slot machines. Furthermore, during the investigations, the Fiamme Gialle investigated several reports of suspicious operations “which highlighted continuous bank movements “justified” by numerous invoices for non-existent operations aimed at emptying the network of companies set up by the criminal association to self-launder the money stolen from the slots they had under management”. Therefore, the judge for the Preliminary Investigations at the Court of Varese ordered, upon proposal of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Varese, the execution of the real precautionary measure of preventive seizure as well as the interdictory measure for two of the 7 suspects. In this regard, the execution of the disqualification measure was made effective through notification to the Unioncamere body, in such a way as to make it effective throughout the national territory, considering that the interdicts have always operated, and continue to operate, in the sector of gambling, using a myriad of companies, which systematically accumulate debts to third parties and in particular to the Treasury, and are then stripped of their main assets to be driven into bankruptcy by various frontmen. The execution operations of the Royal Ordinance made it possible to subject to preventive seizure of 31 banking and financial relationships (with related blocking of account balances), cash found in the homes with the aid of “cash dog” canine units of the recipients of measure, two properties located in the province of Varese and the shares relating to the ownership of two companies, one of which owns 2 commercial buildings and 3 agricultural and building land. In response to these crimes, the Judicial Authority simultaneously ordered the notification to the suspects, 7 natural persons and 1 legal person, of the conclusion of the preliminary investigations for the crimes of embezzlement, embezzlement, fraudulent declaration and issuing of invoices for non-existent transactions , self-laundering, fraud against the State, fraudulent bankruptcy and administrative offense resulting from a crime alleged against the company implicated in the investigations. (ITALPRESS).Photo: Guardia di Finanza Varese col3/com 03-Jun-24 09:54 .
