The Economic and Financial Police Unit of the Gdf of Milan is carrying out a preventive seizure of 4 million euros, as well as a notification of the conclusion of the investigation and in view of the request for indictment, against the former president of the Chamber , Irene Pivetti, and one of her consultants, among the suspects for money laundering and tax fraud in an investigation by the prosecutor Giovanni Tarzia on a series of commercial transactions, in particular the purchase and sale of 3 Ferrari Gran Turismo, which would have been used to launder the proceeds of tax evasion.
The same accusations are also contested, among others, against the pilot Leonardo Leo Isolani, his wife and daughter. The sum seized coincides with the profit of the alleged crimes.
The investigation, in which self-laundering is also disputed, assumes the intermediary role of the "Only Italia" group, chaired by Irene Pivetti, in operations of the Isolani companies to hide certain assets from the tax authorities, including the three Ferraris, one of which it was seized by the Fiamme Gialle some time ago.
THE RECONSTRUCTION - The facts date back to 2016, when Isolani, who has his own "racing team", allegedly sold all the assets (equipment, brand and website) of one of his companies indebted to the tax authorities for several million euros in order to to empty it. The assets would then go to another company of his based in San Marino, which would sell all the assets again, plus the three Ferraris, to a Hong Kong company referable to Irene Pivetti. The latter company would then have resold the assets again to the Daohe Group, owned by the Chinese tycoon Zhou Xi Jian. The sale was celebrated with an event at Palazzo Brancaccio in Rome organized by the former Northern League exponent.
A notary and two entrepreneurs (one of which is Chinese) are also involved in the various stages of the recycling operation. There are seven suspects in all.
On 9 June last year there had been searches and in the following October a 1.2 million seizure against the pilot. Today's seizure was issued as a matter of urgency by the prosecutor Tarzia and concerns 3.5 million euros as a profit from tax fraud and approximately 500,000 euros as a profit from the laundering of criminal proceeds from tax evasion.
(Unioneonline / vl)
