Tax fraud, recycling and self-recycling. It also passes through Velletri the operation conducted by Financial Police of the provincial command of Rome which led to the application of 9 precautionary measures (5 under house arrest and 4 signature obligations) against as many people, accused of criminal association aimed at committing multiple tax crimes, fraud, money laundering and self-laundering. The investigations originated from a complaint lodged against some members of a foundation which, from 2019 to 2022, had managed a well-known bathing establishment on the Roman coast, already subject to confiscation against some members of the Fasciani clan and under the responsibility of the National Agency for the Administration and destination of assets seized and confiscated from organized crime. A total of 34 people were investigated. One of the nine precautionary measures was notified to Velletri.
The measures were issued by the GIP of the Court of Rome, at the request of the local Public Prosecutor’s Office. The investigations were conducted by the 6th Metropolitan Operations Unit (Lido di Ostia).
“The investigations carried out – explains the Finance Police – made it possible to ascertain that the suspects had seen fit to register the structure in the name of a foundation, a ploy which then allowed them to sub-let the restaurant and the internal bar to other companies, benefiting from the reduction of the state concession fee. Furthermore, it emerged that, through the establishment of other foundations, non-profit associations and companies, the suspects received substantial income from sponsorships and donations from multinational groups in the pharmaceutical sector, which were then transferred to other entities attributable to them, using invoices for non-existent transactions relating to consultancy and fictitious projects. The proceeds of these transactions were then laundered through artificial banking transactions which resulted in the top-up of prepaid cards.
The elements collected allowed the local Public Prosecutor’s Office to request the competent GIP to issue the precautionary measure against 9 of the 34 suspects, performed in Rome, Augusta (SR), Fiumicino (RM), Giugliano in Campania (NA), Milan, Pozzuoli (NA), Velletri (RM) and in Villafranca (VR).
The investigative activity of the Fiamme Gialle Lidensi is part of the broader action implemented by the Judicial Authority and the Financial Police of Rome to combat tax fraud that alters market rules and damages honest citizens and entrepreneurs”.
