The Financial Police of Arezzo has carried out a precautionary custody order in prison against 5 people, who were then placed under house arrest, as part of an investigation by the Arezzo Prosecutor's Office into alleged tax fraud in the marketing of precious metals such as palladium and platinum.
Nuoro is also among the cities in which searches and seizures were carried out, as well as Arezzo, Pisa, Rome, Parma, Alessandria, Terni, L'Aquila and Lucca. Even in Switzerland.
The Fiamme Gialle executed a preventive seizure decree of assets, also issued by the investigating judge of Arezzo, for a value of approximately 10 million euros, equal to the profit that according to the investigators would have been obtained from the contested crime.
The mechanism, reconstructed by the Arezzo economic-financial police unit, would have developed through «numerous commercial exchanges between various companies, based in Tuscany, Emilia Romagna, Piedmont and Lazio, which, issuing false invoices for almost 60 million euros , purchased large quantities of palladium and platinum of dubious origin 'off the books', evading VAT for almost 10 million euros and self-laundering the illicit proceeds thus obtained in the purchase of pure gold".
The fraud scheme, which involved a total of 13 people and 8 companies, reported in various capacities to the judicial authority, «had as its pivot and main beneficiary a Pisan company operating in the sector of production and marketing of precious metals: between 2019 and 2023 would have systematically purchased palladium and platinum 'under the table', obtaining, as a result of the fraudulent mechanism implemented, an undue VAT deduction of over 10 million euros".
(Unioneonline/D)
