Tax evasion in the Salerno area, seizure of 40 million

(ANSA) – SALERNO, APRIL 12 – Through artifice and deception they allegedly evaded the payment of excise duties on fuel: maxi seizure – 40 million euros – by the Salerno Financial Police as part of an investigation coordinated by the Nocera Inferiore Prosecutor’s Office which closed the investigations against ten people accused, in various capacities, of a long series of crimes. The investigators, in fact, contest the evasion of the assessment and payment of excise duties on energy products, the fictitious formation of the share capital, the fraudulent bankruptcy, and the malicious failure to execute a judge’s order. Then there is fraud, self-laundering, fraudulent declarations through the use of invoices or other documents for non-existent transactions and the issuing of false invoices. The investigations by the financiers of the Economic-Financial Police Unit of Salerno focused on the legal representative, the liquidator and the members of the board of auditors of a joint-stock company, operating in the sector of trading of petroleum products, owner of a tax warehouse in Valmadonna (Alessandria), with registered office until 2018 in Rome and subsequently transferred to Nocera Inferiore. According to the investigators, the company evaded paying the excise duties due for an amount exceeding 30 million euros, through a series of tricks and deceptions. (HANDLE).