Seizures also in Sardinia as part of the operation conducted by the Varese Finance Police and aimed at executing personal and real precautionary measures against five suspects accused of being involved in a round of money loans at interest rates usurious interest and issuing invoices for non-existent transactions.
Two ended up in prison, three under house arrest.
The investigations, carried out with telephone and environmental wiretapping and on numerous bank current accounts, confirmed the fact that people in the group acted as a branch of a credit institution capable of providing loans to anyone who asked for them. The interest rates applied were 120% per annum in favor of entrepreneurs in financial difficulty. Not only that: two of the arrested persuaded, with violent methods , one of the victims not to report.
Through companies fictitiously registered as a nominee, the suspects issued invoices for non-existent transactions for over 6.2 million euros in favor of companies that needed to reduce profits and thus evade taxes.
Among the assets subject to seizure, for a total value of more than 2.7 million euros, there would be, in addition to financial resources and insurance policies, 10 properties (in Lombardy, Sardinia and Calabria) and 8 licenses for market exercise fixed-seat itinerant.
(Unioneonline / ss)