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At the conclusion of the conventionally named economic-financial police operation “easy slots”i financiers of the Provincial Command of Vareseupon delegation from the Public Prosecutor’s Office at the Court of Varese, have implemented a provision of preventive seizurealso by equivalent, against two natural personsfor a total of 4,761,000 eurosas well as to interdictory measure of the ban on carrying out business activities or to hold management offices of legal persons for 12 months against the two main suspects issued by the investigating judge of the Court of Varese.
The investigation originates from the “concessionaire” company for the creation and management of the network for the electronic management of legal gaming which presented complaint to the Prosecutor’s Office varesina against a manager responsible for the “unpacking” of the slot rooms in relation to the hypotheses of crime of embezzlement and embezzlement for 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 cash fundstored 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 by way of concession fee and PREU, and who therefore remains the 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 decree was executed search venue and staff that involved ten people physical and six companies.
From the analysis of the seized documentation, the chats found on mobile phones, the outcome of the bank investigations and the declarations made by the subjects informed about the facts, theexistence of a criminal association which, through the establishment of some companies operating in the gaming collection and management sector, guaranteed a continuous movement of money for commercial operations of services and buying and selling of de facto companies non-existent.
Among other things, during the searches, the evidentiary seizure of coins for 201,000 eurosrelating to the illicit theft of funds held inside 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 established by the criminal association for self-launder money taken from the slots that they had under management.
Therefore, the Judge for 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 seven suspects.
In this regard, the execution of the interdictory measure was made effective through notification to the Unioncamere body, a public reorganization body of the Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Agriculture and Crafts, in such a way as to make it effective throughout the national territory, in consideration That the interdicts have always operatedand continue to operate, in the gambling industry, using a myriad of companies, who systematically accumulate debts towards third parties and in particular towards the Treasury, and then they are stripped of the main assets to be led to bankruptcy by frontmen various.
The execution operations of the Royal Ordinance made it possible to subject to preventive seizure thirty-one banking and financial relationships (with relative blocking of accounting balances), Cash found in the homes with the aid of “cash dog” dog units of the recipients of the measurement, two properties sites in the province of Varese and the shares relating to the ownership of two companies, one of which owns two commercial buildings and three agricultural and building lands.
In response to these hypotheses of crime, the Judicial Authority simultaneously ordered the notification to the investigated, seven natural persons and one legal personof 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.
For illicit conduct under scrutiny by the competent Judicial Authority, on the basis of the principle of presumption of innocence, the guilt of the persons subjected to investigation will be definitively ascertained only where an irrevocable sentence of conviction occurs, which would necessarily be followed by the confiscation of the profits from the current crimes. make certain.
