The financiers of the Cosenza Provincial Command carried out a detailed investigative activity which concluded with the reporting to the Judicial Authority of 43 natural persons and 26 legal persons, in relation to the issuing/use of invoices for objectively non-existent operations for over 88 million euros, omitted VAT payments for over 3 million euros, the detection of undue tax compensations for approximately 2.5 million euros, as well as illicit of fraudulent bankruptcy related to the “distraction” from the assets of two companies declared bankrupt, of sums of money amounting to over 26 million euros to the detriment of the State Treasury.
The discovery was made after a tax audit carried out by the Financial Police of Amantea, against one of the companies that had transferred its headquarters from the province of Milan to the province of Cosenza. As part of that administrative inspection, in particular, the financiers detected some management and accounting aspects which then merged into a more complex judicial police activity, coordinated by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Milan and developed by the same soldiers of the Amantea Financial Police, against some companies mainly active in the logistics sector, based in the provinces of Milan and Monza – Brianza.
In summary, those investigations revealed – also through targeted banking investigations – a complex system of false invoicing issued by companies revealed to have no entrepreneurial structure, for the benefit of other companies that fraudulently reduced their tax base by accounting for costs that were actually never incurred and, at the same time, conveyed the illicit tax “savings” to the current accounts of other “paper mill” companies, where they were withdrawn for cash, also thanks to ad hoc accounting, prepared by some complacent professionals.
Furthermore, subject to authorization from the judicial authority, the Guardia di Finanza has extended its tax police activity towards the real managers of the companies involved in the facts of bankruptcy and false invoicing, for the taxation of the illicitly obtained proceeds and the consequent start of procedures for the recovery of a taxable base, for the purposes of direct taxes, of approximately 6 million euros, and of over 10.6 million euros for the purposes of VAT.