STRADELLA (Pavia)
Revenues of almost 600 thousand euros, now placed under preventive seizure. For abusive practice of the profession. This is the new accusation from the Pavia Prosecutor’s Office against a 70-year-old accountant from Stradella, already arrested in July 2022 for “criminal association aimed at committing tax crimes, crimes of issuing and using invoices for non-existent operations, undue compensation of non-existent VAT credits, false company communications” together with seven other suspects at large. The road professional also returned to freedom, after the precautionary measure of custody in prison, while the judicial process continues, he had been suspended for five years by the Order of Chartered Accountants and Accounting Experts of Pavia. But, based on the outcome of anti-money laundering checks by the soldiers of the Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza of Pavia, he continued to practice the profession illegally.
“Although the suspension from the Register – explains the press release issued yesterday by the Pavia Prosecutor’s Office – had led to the revocation of the credentials for the forwarding of tax returns and other specific tasks to the Revenue Agency, the professional had continued to use the electronic service by entering the practices relating to its customers, using the credentials of other colleagues”. Even regularly invoicing the proceeds of the professional activity, which is highly profitable. “For these services – concludes the note from the Prosecutor’s Office – the profit obtained over time was quantified at over 579 thousand euros, a sum of which the investigating judge of the Court of Pavia ordered the preventive seizure”.
