Fraud, fictitious registration and self-laundering: an entrepreneur arrested in Trapani

Fraud, fictitious registration and self-laundering: an entrepreneur arrested in Trapani.

Yesterday morning i Carabinieri of the Investigative Unit of the Provincial Command of Trapani have implemented a precautionary order, issued by the investigating judge of the Court of the capital, against three entrepreneurs from Trapani and one from Palermo investigated, in various capacities, for the crimes of aggravated scam, fictitious header, self-laundering and violations of the regulations relating to subcontracting.

At the center of the investigations, conducted by the Carabinieri under the direction of the Trapani Prosecutor's Office, would be the activity of a 46-year-old local entrepreneur – already involved in “Scrigno” trial of 2019 – which, through companies operating in the construction and agricultural sector, fictitiously registered in the name of his wife and, with the connivance of entrepreneurs from Trapani and Palermo, carried out in the Egadi islands, in violation of the "subcontracting" legislation, public maintenance works that had been awarded to other companies in the sector.

During the investigations it also emerged that i proceeds would have been criminal activities reemployed e reinvested for purchase real estate and vehicles.

The man was then subjected to the regime of arrest (with electronic bracelet) while the wife was given the residence ban.

Furthermore, the arrest was ordered against the arrested person preventive seizure of the companies and assets attributable to him, as well as the sum of approximately 100 thousand euros as proceeds from the works carried out under subcontracting.