BIELLA (ITALPRESS) – The Economic and Financial Police of the Guardia di Finanza of Biella has performed a preventive, direct and equivalent seizure, for more than 1,9 million euros against 12 people investigated, for various reasons, by association for criminals, aggravated scam against the European Union and the State and false social communications.
The measure was placed by the Gip of the Court of Biella at the request of the European Attorney General – Turin Office. The operations, conducted with the support of other departments of the Gialle Fiamme in different Italian regions, involved current accounts, three properties between the provinces of Verona, Potenza and Vibo Valentia, two luxury cars – a Maserati and a Land Rover – and the shares of three companies based between Lombardy and Veneto.
The investigations, initiated over a year ago after a control over a Biellese society, would have allowed to reconstruct the operation of a alleged criminal association spread over the national territory, which would have obtained almost 2 million euros of public contributions destined to eight companies. The system, according to the investigative hypothesis, was based on the falsification of the budgets of the applicant companies, in which they were indicated invoiced non-existent millionaires to simulate a solid economic situation and thus access the financing.
Among the unduly perceived sums are contributions for more than 900 thousand euros for the development of the international e-commerce of SMEs, issued by SIMEST – a company participated by Cassa Depositi e Prestiti – and more than one million euros from the Central Guarantee Fund for SMEs managed by Mediocredito Centrale.
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