Tax evasion: 4 arrests, including a judge

(ANSA) - BRESCIA, 02 DEC - A tax judge and a tax consultant are among the four arrested by the Brescia Financial Police, for episodes of corruption in judicial documents related 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 check carried out by FiammeGialle in August 2019 against a Brescia firm, total evader for the years from 2013 to 2019, who appeared to have issued false invoices for about 12 million euros against numerous companies in 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 the income from tax evasion also through the purchase of over 17 million euros in chips used at the Venice casinos, Champion of Italy, Sanremo and Saint Vincent.

    In June 2020, the military raided an industrial pavilion of one of the companies involved, seizing a total of more than 779 thousand euros in cash, hidden among the roof beams, in a forklift and in a lawn mower.

The entrepreneur was arrested in flagrante delicto for incitement to corruption because, during the searches, at the time of the discovery of part of the money, 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 act of inciting corruption, while the 779,025.00 euros were confiscated.

(HANDLE).