(ANSA) - UDINE, FEBRUARY 08 - The Guardia di Finanza of Udine has ascertained an alleged fraud in the paper sector, which involved 37 operators, for a total of 24 million euros and VAT evasion for three million.
The military also carried out the preventive seizure of assets and current accounts for 600 thousand euros, in execution of a provision by the Gip of the Court of Udine, at the request of the Public Prosecutor's Office.
A scheme of sales and purchases between various companies based in Italy and in other EU countries was discovered, to make the tax obligations of paying VAT fall on national subjects who then did not make payments to the Treasury.
The seizure was carried out at the end of a complex investigation which revealed that cellulose, the raw material for paper production,
was being marketed through the preordered scheme.
By not making the payment to the Treasury, the beneficiaries of the fraud obtained an undue tax advantage and, above all, as established by the soldiers of the Economic-Financial Police Unit of Udine, they could sell the goods on the market at absolutely competitive prices, to the detriment of honest economic operators.
The objective of national and foreign legal entities, in fact, was not to produce and exchange goods and services, but to issue invoices for non-existent operations, with the specific intention of carrying out the fraud.
The precautionary measure ordered by the judicial authority involves 6 companies and 8 natural persons operating in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Veneto and Lombardy.
The seizure concerns sums of money present in current accounts, credits, registered movable assets and real estate, for a value exceeding 600 thousand euros.
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