PISTOIA – Businessman arrested in Pistoia, seizures of over 2 million.
Businessman arrested in Pistoia, LA Financial Police of Pistoia executed a precautionary custody order in prison and a preventive seizure order issued by the investigating judge of the Court of Pistoia, at the request of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Pistoia, against a 37-year-old entrepreneur, originally from Campania but has long been resident in the province of Pistoia. Held responsible for multiple conducts of fraudulent bankruptcy, fraudulent evasion of tax payments and disruption of bankruptcy auctions.
Eight suspectsresidents to residents in Montecatini Terme, Florence, Adro, Trani and Giugliano in Campania.
A hotel in Montecatini Terme was also seized.
As illustrated by the Guardia di Finanza in a press release, the subject of the seizure are the financial assets, valuables and company shares held directly or indirectly by the entrepreneur, up to a maximum of 623,328 euros, “an amount equal to the assets and values distracted to remove them from the procedures of compulsory collection of taxes not paid over time”.
One seized hotel structure in Montecatini Terme and the related capital goods, whose appraised value exceeds 2.1 million euros. It is, explains GdF, a prestigious tourist complex subject to real estate execution, “already owned by a company he managed, which then went bankrupt, which he had managed to illicitly repossess by having a nominee participate in the bankruptcy auction and presenting a false bank certificate intended to certify the apparent granting of a loan, never actually requested and/or granted, aimed at paying the hammer price”.
At the state of the proceedings and according to the hypothesis examined by the judge in the precautionary measure, the GdF continues, the investigations, conducted by the Economic and Financial Police Unit of Pistoia, with the help of the Judicial Police section – Guardia di Finanza branch of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Pistoia, have made it possible to reconstruct that the main suspect, although already definitively convicted of bankruptcy, had continued to commit a series of bankruptcy and tax crimes, using ever new legal entities, registered in the name of compliant frontmen.
In short, these companies in the hotel and tourism sector, after having accumulated huge commercial, tax and social security debts without honoring them, were systematically stripped of their assets and driven into bankruptcy. The related properties and capital goods remained, however, at the disposal of the bankrupt hidden behind apparent new companies, who acquired them before they could be attracted into the bankruptcy assets, or participated in the related bankruptcy auctions also producing artificial documentation, in order to obtain undue awards.
