company close to the Camorra clans, first benefactor

The people investigated by the Great fraud in the hydrocarbon sector. which led to the issuance of two embargo decrees, for a total of 150 million euros, which the Financial police is notifying between Campania, Lazio and Emilia Romagna.

The investigations, coordinated by Naples Prosecutor’s Office, were corroborated by the statements of several collaborators of justice: the fraud mechanisms discovered were carried out between 2015 and 2021 with the creation, in Italy and abroad, of “paper companies” that allowed massive evasion of VAT and special taxes, as well as the application of illicitly competitive prices to final consumers. Among the main beneficiaries of the fraud is a Naples company that, until its bankruptcy declaration, was effectively co-managed by senior officials of the The Formicola clan and the Silenzio clanone of whom was already a beneficiary of an anti-mafia asset prevention measure.

Today, as a result of investigations that shed light on a series of frauds in the hydrocarbons sector, carried out between 2015 and 2021, two seizure decrees were executed for 150 million euros, let’s go Economic-financial police units of the Financial Police of Naples, Trieste and Frosinone, in collaboration with the Central Investigation Service against Organized Crime (SCICO).

The 11 suspects were charged in various capacities, including association, with multiple tax crimes, false corporate communications, fraudulent transfer of securities and self-laundering. For Six, the charges are aggravated because the crimes were allegedly committed to facilitate two Camorra clans – the Formicola clan and the Silenzio clan – in the eastern area of ​​Naples. On the one hand, finally, having committed the crime in the exercise of tax advisory activity.

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