They would have retained and the money from slot gamesis the amount to be paid to the treasury: seven suspects. The investigation, which refers to 2020, focused on the owners of companies that dealt with the “unpacking” of “VLT” machines of bars and slot rooms. They are accused of embezzlement, embezzlement, fraudulent declaration and issuing invoices for persistent transactions, self-laundering, fraud against the State, fraudulent bankruptcy and administrative offence. The seizure of assets and assets worth almost 5 million euros was ordered.
The investigation is started from Lottomatica’s complaint who turned to the Varese Prosecutor’s Office to shed light on the activity of a company that operated in the Varese area. Activities which, according to the initial complaint, could constitute the crimes of “embezzlement” and “embezzlement” for the failure to pay the “single tax levy” (i.e. a tax applied to amusement and entertainment machines) and for the misappropriation of the cash fundstored within the «Awp» (the «new slots»), constantly connected to the monopolies’ electronic network.
After the complaint, the searches began. The Fiamme Gialle discovered the system that allowed the suspects to move a large volume of money. The financiers under the orders of General Crescenzo Sciaraffa have 200 thousand euros in coins were also seizedaccording to the accusation resulting from the illicit removal of the bets from the machines.
Various reports of suspicious transactions were also investigated, which highlight continuous bank movements justified by numerous invoices for non-existent transactions: a mechanism to empty the network of society made up of the suspects e to self-launder the money stolen from the slots. Therefore, at the request of the Prosecutor’s Office, the investigating judge of Varese ordered preventive seizure as well as a ban on carrying out business activities for 12 months for two of the seven suspects. 31 banking and financial relationships were seized (with the related blocking of account balances), cash found at the homes of the suspects thanks to the “cash dogs”, two properties in the province of Varese and the shares relating to the ownership of two companies, one of which owns two commercial buildings and three pieces of land.
