Fraudulent bankruptcy, tax crimes and money laundering: 22 investigated in the complex system directed by a lawyer from Abbiatenia

The financiers of the Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza of Milan have implemented an order applying precautionary measures issued by the GIP of the local Court at the request of the Public Prosecutor’s Office against 4 subjects, of which 2 subjected to custody in prison and 2 recipients of house arrest, as well as a preventive seizure decree of movable and immovable assets for over 4 million euros.

In implementation of the provision, 20 personal and local searches were also carried out in the provinces of Milan, Pavia, Pisa, Varese, Treviso, Livorno and Catanzaro through the use of over 70 soldiers and “cash dog” dog units. In particular, the investigations, conducted by the financiers of the Magenta Company on behalf of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Milan, made it possible to reveal a complex fraudulent system planned and directed by a lawyer from Abbiatenia, with the help of professionals and supportive collaborators, including a person of primary criminal importance, a leading exponent of “Cosa Nostra”, already convicted following the well-known “Duomo Connection” operation of the 1990s, and with the involvement of a plurality of natural persons used as frontmen for companies – some operating in the construction-real estate sector, with the aim of defrauding the tax authorities and creditors and allowing the laundering of illicitly derived money.

The 22 subjects involved are under investigation, for various reasons, for the crimes of fraudulent bankruptcy, undue compensation of tax credits for over 2.5 million euros, fraudulent evasion of tax payments, money laundering, self-laundering and fraudulent transfer of values. The operation demonstrates the daily commitment made by the Corps to safeguard the legality and economic-financial security of the country, with particular reference to the fight against organized crime and the infiltration of illicit capital into the circuit of the legal economy. The responsibility of the suspects will be definitively ascertained with the irrevocable sentence of conviction. The criminal proceedings are still in the preliminary investigation phase and, given the current evidentiary acquisitions, pending a final judgement, it is important to underline that the presumption of innocence of the suspects applies.