(ANSA) – PERUGIA, NOVEMBER 17 – An alleged “carousel fraud” in the automotive fuel trade sector with the “systematic” VAT evasion that allowed oil products to be sold at “off-market” prices has been identified by the Group investigation into organized crime of the Economic-Financial Police Unit of Perugia and the Customs and Monopolies Agency. The investigating judge then ordered house arrest for five people as well as the preventive seizure of money, movable and immovable property, company compendia and oil deposits, against 12 individuals and seven companies for over 15 million euros.
The investigation, coordinated by the Perugian Public Prosecutor’s Office, revealed – the investigators reported – a series of companies located throughout the country, against which “indications of guilt” emerged for criminal association aimed at tax fraud, through the issuing and using invoices for non-existent transactions, and fraudulent transfer of values. The investigations made it possible to identify what is considered a system of evasion of the value added tax centered on two oil depots in the province of Perugia and results attributable, one to an Umbrian entrepreneur, the other to a Calabrian offender already subjected to surveillance. special as it is considered contiguous to a clan of ‘Ndrangheta, which would be the promoter and organizer of the association.
According to the Guardia di Finanza, in the context of the association, an “important role” was also played by an offender from Campania, already detained, involved in other investigations concerning Camorra clans with interests in the oil products trade sector, as well as by a Sicilian entrepreneur who emerged in previous investigative contexts. (HANDLE).
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