Wednesday 19 June 2024 – 12.35pm
A fraud in the trading of fuels for 133 million litres he also brought the financial police of Ancona in Tuscanyand more precisely in the province of Pistoia. This morning a huge seizure took place for 15 million euros and passes through distributors, properties, land, boats and even a resort in Sardinia.
By delegation of the Trani prosecutor’s office, this morning the Fiamme Gialle, as well as in the Pistoia area, operated in the provinces of Ascoli Piceno, Teramo, Pescara, Barletta, Reggio Emilia and Sassari.
The investigative activity, explains a note from the Finance Department, led to the dismantling of acriminal organization at the top of which an entrepreneur from Puglia was identified.
The scheme? The creation of “fictitious corporate screens, altogether tax defaulters“, to implement “a significant tax fraud in the trade of petroleum products and the subsequent reinvestment of the related proceeds in real estate activities”.
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Shell companies in Bulgaria And Czech Republicmanaged by the criminal organization, would have resorted to intra-community purchasing at various refineries mainly in Sloveniathus procuring large quantities of fuel not subject to VAT which however were invoiced at 7 paper companies Italian companies who, in turn, did not pay the tax due to the treasury, even though they collected it from Italian customers and omitted the declaration.
After a short time the ‘paper’ companies were dismantled and replaced with others. At the head was a Propertyless frontman. It goes without saying: the fuel thus obtained was resold below cost.
