The State Police and the Guardia di Finanza of Frosinone coordinated by the local Public Prosecutor's Office carried out precautionary measures in the provinces of Frosinone, Pescara, Campobasso and Benevento, consisting of a measure of pre-trial detention, six measures precautionary measures for house arrest, twenty-five interdiction measures to prohibit the holding of management offices of legal entities for months 12 and the preventive seizure of more than 1.500.000 euros against 31 parties involved in various capacities.
The operation was born from a series of reports from the Anti-Money Laundering Office of Poste Italiane which gave the flying squad and the Postal Police the cue to start an intense and complex investigative activity, which also saw the participation of the Guardia di Finanza with the use of the Economic-Financial Police Unit of Frosinone and the Tenenza of Arce, interested in their specific skills in tax matters, which made it possible to reconstruct the economic-fiscal dynamics of the illegal activity.
It was possible to reconstruct the structure of the criminal organization, composed of a ciociaro accountant, entrepreneurs and legal representatives of societies in central and northern Italy, and various "wooden heads", clearly delineating the roles of each one.
The investigators' attention was focused on the analysis of the financial flow of two postal current accounts which, during a ten-month period, saw a movement of about two million euros, following a series of transfers made by numerous companies located on throughout the national territory.
In particular, the members of the criminal association through the creation of ad hoc "paper mills" companies, through which false invoices were produced to justify the huge movements of money, distracted large sums that were then withdrawn in cash at some provincial post offices of Frosinone and Rome, to then return to the availability of the promoters of the association through special couriers.
In this way real companies were allowed to reverse the sums of money corresponding to the payments of invoices issued by the "paper mill" for non-existent services and thus evade the related taxes, in addition to allowing the supply of black cash funds, formed by the sums returned following the transfers.
The suspects were accused of the crimes of usury, fictitious heading of assets, issuing of invoices for non-existent operations, failure to pay taxes and fraudulent declaration.
The State Police and the Guardia di Finanza, each integrating themselves in their respective competences, have carried out an activity that fits into a broader framework to combat economic and financial crime capable of polluting the legal economy and altering the conditions of competition, attacking in particular the patrimony illegally accumulated by the criminal organization which is now vanquished, which has been hit at the heart of its own interests, giving back to the community its assets.