The Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza of Messina has implemented a precautionary order issued by the investigating judge at the Court of Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, with which a preventive seizure measure was placed for approximately 1.7 million euros, against of four natural persons and a credit institution, as part of an investigation conducted in the sector of the undue receipt of construction bonuses. Service…
The Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza of Messina has implemented a precautionary order issued by the investigating judge at the Court of Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, with which a preventive seizure measure was placed for approximately 1.7 million euros, against of four natural persons and a credit institution, as part of an investigation conducted in the sector of the undue receipt of construction bonuses.
The investigations, coordinated by the Barcelona Public Prosecutor’s Office, concerning a fraudulent system designed to profit from the tax benefits introduced by Legislative Decree no. 34 of 2020 – the so-called “Relaunch” decree and subsequent additions – originated from the investigation of some anomalous money movements, consisting of bank accounts set up by the suspects themselves in favor of foreign current accounts attributable to them, citing the reason for the operation “credit for transfer of tax credits”.
On the basis of preliminary investigations, the financiers of the Milazzo Company therefore found that the huge financial flows, amounting to over 800,000 euros, came, in turn, from a credit institution that had monetized to some taxpayers the credits of the tax breaks attributable to the so-called “ecobonus-sismabonus – facade bonus – building heritage recovery bonus”, transferred via the Revenue Agency’s platform called “credit transfer”.
More in-depth investigations, therefore, consisting of the request for data from the Revenue Agency and Local Authorities, confidential inspections and complex bank investigations, have made it possible to reconstruct further large credits, obtained from the insertion into the computer systems of false declarations, specifically prepared by the suspects for the sole purpose of obtaining the tax advantages made available by the State for the renovation of the building stock. In particular, the Fiamme Gialle Mamertine revealed during the investigations that the applicants had not contracted the maintenance work to any company nor, much less, received any invoice corresponding to the amounts self-certified in the requests. Furthermore, equally, not only was there no trace of any mandatory notification of the start of works, the so-called CILA/CILAS, at the competent municipal offices but the suspects were not even owners of the properties or tenants, in any capacity, of the same. The fictitious tax credits thus artfully created were therefore transferred by the suspects to a credit institution, for subsequent monetization, even going so far as to split the total amount, through multiple transfers, with the intention of evading the anti-money laundering legislation.
Joseph Lazarus
Edited by, Wednesday 5 June 2024, 10.09 am.
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