A dense network of so-called paper companies located abroad and ready to be replaced with others, if necessary, allowed a 40-year-old entrepreneur of Apulian origin, according to the accusation, to create a complex and important fraud in the trade of fuels.
The massive tax fraud it would have involved the illicit supply and sale of over 133 million liters of fuel, producing, in just a few years, alleged illicit profits for the criminal organization of over 15 million euros. Today, the financiers of the Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza of Ancona, delegated by the Prosecutor’s Office of Trani, have implemented, in the provinces of Ascoli Piceno, Teramo, Pescara, Barletta, Pistoia, Reggio Emilia and Sassari, a detailed precautionary measure issued by the investigating judge of Trani, at the request of the Trani Prosecutor’s Office.
It was arranged the preventive seizure, also in the form of equivalent, of availability and assets up to the amount of 15.5 million euros. Seals on 32 real estate units, including two roadside petrol stations in the province of Teramo (Martinsicuro and Scerne di Pineto), a fuel depot in the province of Reggio Emilia, a resort located in the municipality of Arzachena, Baia Sardinia (Sassari), a residence in the province of Teramo, and various prestigious apartments and lands in Italian provinces.
