Insert fictitious expenses into the company’s balance sheets to generate a deductible VAT surplus. In short, exploit fake invoices to pay less taxes. This is the scheme, which has now become very common in some entrepreneurial pockets, on which the Rimini Prosecutor’s Office is working. An investigation that was born in Emilia Romagna but which mainly concerns entrepreneurs from the Aversa hinterland and the province of Naples.
To gather information on this system, which allegedly stole several million euros from the tax authorities, the financial police in recent hours searched company offices and homes of some people involved in the investigations located in Aversa, Succivo, Trentola in the Naples area North and in Romagna.
Who I am? Iliana Bartoletti75 year old from San Leo, Lorenzo Beneduce24 year old originally from Naples but moved to Rimini, Fabio Welcome57 year old from Rome, Pietro Bonari46 year old from Magliano de Arsi, Francesco Buonicontri27 year old from Aversa, Agata Carobene42 year old from Lusciano, Barbara Costanzi54 year old from San Leo, Francesco Saverio Di Simone64 year old from San Severo, Francesco Della Torre59 year old from Naples, Cristina Fernandes49 year old from San Leo, Giuseppina Ferrante45 year old from Naples, Salvatore Guarino54 year old from Rimini, Edmundo Jakaj44 years old from Santarcangelo di Romagna, Giuliano Nunzio Miracola53 years old from Sant’Agata di Militello, Francesco Pagliuca47 year old from Aversa, Carmen Pisciotta34 year old from Trentola Ducenta, Tiziano Poggi76 year old from Rimini, Nunzia Splendor69 year old from San Giorgio a Cremano, Salvatore Turco29 year old from Sant’Antimo, Salvatore Volpicelli38 years old from Frattamaggiore and Luigi Verde, 48 years old from Sant’Antimo. The suspects are charged with the crime of using false invoices.
The investigative activity, coordinated by the prosecutor Stefano Celli, also brought to light alleged fraudulent transfers of assets in relation to some companies (hypothesis disputed by Barbara and Luca Costanzi, Guarino, Fabio Benvenuti, Poggi, Jakaj, Bartoletti, Muratore, Della Torre and Verde). Furthermore, the Prosecutor’s Office recognized the possibility of slander on the part of Della Torre, Luca Costanzi and Poggi: they would have filed a complaint against soldiers of the Economic and Financial Police Unit of the Rimini yellow flames who were carrying out tax checks at the Eti company , despite knowing they were innocent.
The soldiers were accused of private violence and abuse of office. Costanzi and Poggi are also charged with the crime of embezzlement because they allegedly improperly took possession of a vehicle belonging to another company. The 22 suspects are to be considered innocent until a possible irreversible conviction. The investigation in which they are involved is still in the preliminary phase and therefore it is possible that in its continuation the innocence of the current suspects will emerge.
