The operation of the Pescara Finance Police is called "Black Gold" which made it possible to discover a maxi scam that led to 172 complaints for tax crimes of issuing and using invoices for non-existent operations, as well as for money laundering, self-recycling and fraudulent bankruptcy.
The suspects resold the imported fuel under the counter at off-market prices without paying VAT. At the top of the organization there were national and EU oil suppliers from which "paper mills" in reality not operational, represented by specially recruited nominees, who have no property, and who have never worked in the fuel sector, bought the black gold without application VAT, to then resell it to the "white pumps" at bargain prices, again without paying the tax.
The Fiamme Gialle have found a taxable matter equal to more than 207 million euros, for an evaded VAT of over 45 million euros.
"The joke is twofold - explains Colonel Antonio Caputo, provincial commander of Pescara Finance - it seriously damages the State and European Union budget due to the significant VAT evasion and causes a strong disturbance to the market, through unfair competition operated by local and independent distributors who knowingly source their supplies from criminal organizations, at prices below the average values charged at the 'pump'. A perverse mechanism that is totally to the detriment of both honest operators who, failing to be competitive, lose large slices of the market, and citizens, whose savings are eroded every day by the dizzying rise in prices due to expensive energy. and frauds that alter the regular functioning of the sector, now very strategic ".
(Unioneonline / ss)
