A six-figure scam with construction bonuses. This is what was discovered by the financiers of the Maglie company, in the province of Lecce, as part of an investigation coordinated by the prosecutor’s office of the Salento capital which, in recent hours, has led to the seizure of 67 million euros (between assets and liquidity) and the interdiction of a building contractor. Overall, 12 people are under investigation.
Undue contributions received
The investigation, launched to verify any fraud relating to the use of the so-called “Superbonus 110”, would have ascertained the undue receipt of contributions for building bonuses relating to real estate renovation works not carried out, or carried out only partially, in over 500 construction sites spread across the province of Leccefor which the qualified professionals involved in the alleged offense would have certified the final state of the works, issuing the required approval of conformity.
For the building interventions in question, according to the prosecutor’s findings, there would have been yellow flames over 1,200 invoices issued and accounted for for non-existent operationsthen inserted into the Revenue Agency system, in order to generate tax credits and proceed with their monetization.
In particular, the preventive seizure measure was carried out within numerous banking and postal institutions “third party credit transferees” for an amount quantified at 25 million euros and at the “tax office” of the company under investigation, for over 42 million EUR.
The accusations
The crimes hypothesized against the 12 suspects are those of undue perception of public funds, ideological falsification of certificates committed by persons providing a service of public necessity and issuing of invoices for non-existent operationsin addition to the occurrence for nine of them of the additional hypothesis of the crime of criminal association.
A disqualification measure prohibiting him from contracting with the public administration and carrying out professional and entrepreneurial activities for the duration of one year.
