Cosenza: Major Guardia di Finanza investigation into €88 million in false invoices.
43 individuals and 26 companies were reported for non-existent transactions, omitted VAT payments, undue compensation, and fraudulent bankruptcy.
Cosenza: Major Guardia di Finanza investigation into €88 million in false invoices.
The financiers of the Cosenza Provincial Command they carried out a complex investigative activity which concluded with the 43 natural persons and 26 legal persons were reported to the judicial authoritiesThe disputes concern invoices for objectively non-existent transactions for over 88 million euro, omitted VAT payments for over 3 million euro, undue tax compensations for about 2,5 million euro, Besides fraudulent bankruptcy offenses related to distraction from the assets of two bankrupt companies over 26 million euros, to the detriment of the State Treasury.
The activity originates from a tax audit performed by Amantea Financial Police Station against one of the companies involved, which had transferred its headquarters from the province of Milano to the Cosenza area. During the administrative inspection, the financial police found anomalous management and accounting aspects, which were later incorporated into a broader judicial police investigation. coordinated by the Public Prosecutor's Office Milano and developed by the Fiamme Gialle of Amantea against companies active in the logistics sector with headquarters in the provinces of Milano e Monza–Brianza.
The investigations have revealed, also through banking investigations, complex system of false invoicing issued by companies without an effective entrepreneurial structure, for the benefit of other companies that fraudulently reduced their tax base accounting for costs never incurred. At the same time, the illicit tax savings were channeled into the current accounts of other companies.paper mills”, where the funds were withdrawn for cash, thanks also to an accounting system prepared by compliant professionals.
Following the authorization of the judicial authorities, the Guardia di Finanza has extended its tax police activity towards the real managers of the companies involved in the bankruptcy and false invoicing cases, initiating the procedures for recovery of a taxable base of approximately 6 million euros for direct tax purposes and over 10,6 million euros for VAT purposes.
The service activity carried out by the Cosenza Yellow Flames testifies to the constant commitment of the Corps in fight against tax evasion, a phenomenon that hinders economic development, distorts competition, undermines the relationship of trust between citizens and the state and penalizes fairness, taking precious resources away from the weakest social groups.
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