This is the result of the Fiamme Gialle of Pescara which discovered a maxi-tax evasion in the slaughtering and meat trade sector.
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The soldiers of the Guardia di Finanza Group of the Adriatic capital, at the disposal of the local Judicial Authority, have therefore now placed the seals on the huge loot, of over 3 million euros, illegally accumulated in recent years by a company operating in the Pescara area.
The recovery of illicit assets is the result of tax verification activities, as well as investigations by the judicial police coordinated by the Pescara Public Prosecutor's Office.
The accusatory system was endorsed by the Judge for Preliminary Investigations of the Court of the Adriatic capital, who issued a preventive seizure decree aimed at confiscating the equivalent of the "stolen", which was carried out by attacking the financial resources (current accounts, securities and insurance policies) of the 6 subjects responsible for the maxi-evasion for a total of 7 million euros.
The financiers have thus put an end to an articulated fraudulent mechanism, which has allowed the criminal association for years to save on the payment of taxes and to market slaughter products at lower prices than those of the market, altering the ordinary rules of competition to the detriment of honest operators.
Those in charge of the illegal system (de facto and legal administrators, a nominee and an accountant) were already accustomed to the commission of tax crimes such as the disputed ones. Ingenious, in fact, the mechanism devised to defraud the tax authorities and be more competitive on the market.
Initially, the method adopted was the most classic of evasive systems: use of false invoices created ad hoc by a "bad company", attributable to the same team, a real paper mill that fictitiously invoiced the operating company of the group for the sale of thousands of head of livestock and commercial transport vehicles, actually completely non-existent.
Over time, the fraudulent techniques have gradually refined and evolved thanks to the "advice" of a compliant accountant, colluded with the criminal association, who devised an altered accounting system, centered on a double level of artifice.
In a first phase, purchases greater than the real ones were fictitiously recorded in the accounting system to generate a false VAT credit to be used later to reduce the tax to be paid; subsequently, to better conceal this fraud, a further artifice was put in place consisting of accounting for false shareholder loans for amounts corresponding to the undue VAT credit, in order to make the financial statements balance, but only formally.
A 2.0 tax fraud, centered on an illicit system made more and more articulated and complex to hinder its assessment, but which the investigative acumen of the financiers has in any case unveiled and vanquished.
The "MI-STEAK" operation therefore represents an evident example in the province of Pescara, of the effectiveness of the action to protect tax revenues and the correct functioning of the market, ensured by the economic-financial police, until recovery of assets illegally accumulated, returned to the community. ■