CHIETI. The Treviso Financial Police has reported 30 people from 22 different companies who have committed fraud worth one million euros against five leasing companies since 2018. Chieti is also among the provinces in which the suspects and the companies involved are located. The investigations by the yellow flames ascertained that the suspects were proposing to leasing companies the purchase of an industrial asset, which later turned out to be non-existent, for subsequent leasing to a third person.
A rental contract for the movable property was then stipulated between the leasing company and the leasing company indicated by the original supplier; and therefore, the same supplier took care of sending the leasing companies the technical documentation and that relating to the transport of the industrial good from the tenant, to its commissioning and testing.
Finally, the leasing contract was not honored or only the first installments were paid by the suspects who then disappeared. The charges hypothesized by the Treviso judiciary for 5 people are of criminal association, while for the remainder there is talk of fraud, aggravated by the abuse of work performance. There were 18 confirmed incidents and mainly concerned the fictitious sale of power generators, sold for amounts between 40 thousand and 80 thousand euros, for a total damage to the leasing companies of around 1 million.
Other goods targeted by the scam were forklifts, cutters and bagging machines. The 10 directors of the four Treviso companies, who had the role of proposing the sale of the non-existent machinery, were also charged with tax violations for 3.5 million euros and VAT evasion for 1.5 million euros.
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