(ANSA) – BRESCIA, 02 DEC – A tax judge and a tax consultant are among the four arrested by the Brescia Guardia di Finanza, for episodes of corruption in judicial acts connected to a complex system of tax evasion for over 90 million euros. At the same time, 34 local searches were carried out in the companies involved, which involved, in addition to the province of Brescia, also those of Milan, Bergamo, Cremona, Novara, Modena and Bologna.
It all started with a tax audit carried out by the Fiamme Gialle in August 2019 against a Brescia-based company, total evader for the years from 2013 to 2019, which appeared to have issued false invoices for about 12 million euros towards numerous companies of northern Italy. The subsequent analysis of the financial flows underlying the dense network of companies involved highlighted an articulated system of fraud which provided for the masking of the illicit origin of income from tax evasion also through the purchase of over 17 million euros in chips used. at the casinos of Venice, Campione d’Italia, Sanremo and Saint Vincent.
In June 2020, the military raided an industrial pavilion of one of the companies involved, seizing a total of over 779,000 euros in cash, hidden among the roof beams, in a forklift and a lawnmower. The entrepreneur was arrested in the act of crime for inciting corruption because, during the research, when part of the money was found, he offered the financiers all the cash found at that time, about 70,000 euros, to stop the searches . The continuation of the search made it possible to seize the additional € 709,000. In November 2020, the same person was sentenced to two years and two months of imprisonment for the crime of inciting corruption, while the 779,025.00 euros were confiscated. (HANDLE).
.
Source From: Ansa
I have been working in the news industry for over 10 years now and I have worked for some of the biggest news websites in the world. My focus has always been on entertainment news, but I also cover a range of other topics. I am currently an author at Global happenings and I love writing about all things pop-culture related.
