Notice of conclusion of preliminary investigations against 33 people and 6 companies for one 12 million euro maxi scam with the “facade bonuses” In the Cilento, in the Neapolitan area and in Puglia. The charge is of aggravated fraud, attempted and committed in competition, to obtain public funding and to have generated, assigned and offset tax credits for construction works fictitiously certified in 2021 and 2022.
The deputy prosecutor Antonio Pizzi of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Vallo della Lucania served the notices to the suspects, as part of the operation conducted by the financiers of the Agropoli Company, directed by the captain Alessandro Brongo.
The suspects are residents of Agropoli, Smoke leaker, Pollica, Castellabate and in the provinces of Naples And Lecce. Involved in the affair is the well-known entrepreneur Concordio Malandrino, already accused in other criminal proceedings and still wanted by thejudicial authority. In addition to two individuals indicated as his alleged frontmen and hidden associates, two priests leading religious institutes and convents in Cilento, which are the subject of total restorations which were never actually carried out 5.7 million euros. Already as part of the operation conducted in October, the yellow flames carried out a decree of emergency preventive seizure of current accounts, cars and real estate for 2.5 million euroscutting off circulation e compensation of false tax credits, to the detriment of the treasury, for over 10 million.
The investigative activity was born from the analysis of anomalous financial transactions carried out by a newly established administrative consultancy company, devoid of any logistical-business structureof means and of employed personnel, which, after having changed its corporate purpose from “other administrative consultancy activities” to “carrying out building works and construction of residential buildings”, began to generate tax credits for a amount exceeding, in fact, 12 million euros, corresponding to the amount of building recovery works, apparently carried out between the provinces of Salerno and Leccein favor of its clients.
In this specific case, the financiers have ascertained that the administrative documentation necessary to access the incentive, with the option of discount on invoice and transfer of credit, was artfully prepared also with the help of professionals (surveyors and engineers), as well as with the conscious participation of the recipients of the works. The suspects will now have 20 days to present defense briefs to one’s own exoneration or be questioned by Public minister.
