Livorno, – Officials from the Customs and Monopolies Agency (ADM) and the soldiers of the Guardia di Finanza of Livorno have executed, by order of the local Judicial Authority, the confiscation of 600,000 euros at the conclusion of a complex anti-smuggling operation.
The investigative activities originate from in-depth and targeted risk analyses on goods arriving from China, imported by three companies artfully created to interpose themselves between the supplier and the real recipient, located in the province of Naples and also responsible for the issuance of false invoices for several million euros.
The confiscated sum represents the illicit profit from aggravated smuggling related to the use of the three shell companies, lacking an actual structure, which imported “do-it-yourself” tools from China, evading the regulations on the payment of VAT at the time of import in favor of the actual recipient companies that purchased the product once customs clearance was completed.
The complex service activities, carried out also with the aid of technical investigations, confirmed the instrumental use of the fictitious companies involved and allowed for the identification of the real recipients of the imported consignments of goods.
In fact, the shell companies managed by “frontmen”, who were registered as the importers of the goods, paid for the material from China with sums credited to them by the actual recipients of the products.
The successful conclusion of the service activity in question confirms, once again, the perfect synergy between the Fiamme Gialle and the ADM under the fundamental direction of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Livorno.
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