A complex tax fraud scheme was allegedly carried out between Nicosia, Syracuse And Catania. Five people they were arrested from the financial police Of Ennabut they are also there four other people under investigation. The hypothesized crimes are – for various reasons – fraudulent transfer of values, issuing invoices for non-existent operations, concealment and destruction of accounting records, recycling, self-laundering And private violencebeyond corporate and environmental crimes. In jail they are finished two entrepreneurs and directors of a company – active in the sector of window sales and assembly – e an accountant: all three are from Nicosia, in the province of Enna. Under house arrest Instead a man and a woman, owners of two other companies. Furthermore, the seizure of assets worth one million euros.
The investigations revealed that for over twenty years one of the two entrepreneurs who ended up in prison would have been hidden partner of a companyof which he would have fictitiously sold 51 percent of company shares: given that the man has several criminal records, this move would have served to avoid any measures of property attacks. Furthermore, according to the Enna prosecutor’s office, there would have been one parallel accounting, totally in the black, also used to mask operations attributable to the hidden partner. According to the same prosecutor’s office, «the second entrepreneur – formal administrator of the company – and the other suspects, would have facilitated – with the support of the accountant – the fraudulent mechanism, draining huge illicit proceeds generated through false invoicing and repeated conduct of recycling and self-laundering.
According to the prosecution, this ploy «in addition to illegally reducing tax bases of the company, would have distorted the actual profitability of the same, thus excluding other minority shareholders from legitimate participation in the profits”.
