There are two arrested by the Varese Guardia di Finanza in execution of an order for pre -trial detention with house arrest issued by the investigating judge. The same judge for preliminary investigations ordered a SEquestro preventive for equivalent of movable and immovable property for a total value of more than three and a half million euros. The administrators of two companies in the import sector of cars ended up in handcuffs. It is the balance of the “Vortex Italia” operation who dismantled a fraud to the international carousel aimed at the evasion of millions of euros of VAT. The Varesini financiers worked on delegation of the Milanese headquarters of the European Prosecutor’s Office.
Judicial cooperation has made it possible to identify and document a tax fraud system in the trade sector of luxury machines with hundreds of vehicles subject to fictitious transfer from German operators to Sammarinese companies and Liechtenstein – where they never have been registered – to then be subsequently claimed to operators in Italy. At the time of theRegistration for civil engines of Rome and Catanzaroalways curated by the same auto practices agencies with headquarters in the same provinces to which dealers from all over Italy were addressed, a bogus documentation of national and Sammarinese public bodies was systematically presented attesting the fulfillment of VAT and customs charges, thus allowing the nationalization of the tax evasion vehicles. The investigators estimate the issue of false invoices for an amount of about 10 million euros. The cars involved within the lap identified are a thousand. At the end of the investigations, arrests and kidnappings were triggered.