Tax fraud and self -mirror for an amount of over 16 million euros. This is the balance of a vast operation conducted by the financiers of the Provincial Command of Cosenza, under the coordination of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Castrovillari, which led to Seizure of companies, properties, money and movable property attributable to six people and a complex system of companies operating in the tire trade.
The measure, issued by the judge for preliminary investigations, affected an organization that according to investigators would have set up an articulated tax evasion and recycling mechanism, operating on a national scale. 15 capital companies ended up in the sights, some headed by nominees, corporate shares, two industrial warehouses, as many as 34 properties, vehicles and financial resources distributed in various regions of Italy.
The investigations, conducted by the Compagnia della Guardia di Finanza of Corigliano-Rossano, reconstructed the activity of a criminal association that was headed by a “leader” company, formally never recorded for VAT purposes, and therefore unknown to the tax authorities. The satellite companies, on the other hand, issued invoices for non -existent operations for a total of over 109 million euros, helping to shield the real operations of the operating center of the fraudulent system.
According to what was ascertained, between 2017 and 2022 the organization would have subtracted a volume of over 40 million euros from the tax authorities, evading almost 9 million euros in VAT. The illegal profits would then be reused for the purchase of properties and the development of further speculative activities, thus configuring the crime of self -laundering.
The seized companies will now be entrusted to a judicial administrator appointed by the Castrovillari court, while investigations continue to define any further responsibilities.
The operation represents a new blow to economic crime by the Guardia di Finanza, always at the forefront in the defense of tax legality and in the protection of the healthy entrepreneurial fabric, threatened by fraudulent mechanisms that alter the competition and damage the real economy.