Assets worth over €3.5 million, including luxury properties in Sardinia and a Lamborghini, were seized by the Guardia di Finanza in Desenzano del Garda as part of an investigation coordinated by the Brescia Public Prosecutor's Office into a complex tax fraud and money laundering scheme.

As mentioned, the seizures affected numerous properties along the Costa Smeralda , Brescia, Valcamonica, and Lake Garda, as well as company shares attributable to the suspects. The operation dismantled a fraudulent scheme aimed at siphoning off public funds through the creation of false tax credits.

At the center of the investigation is a Brescia-based company operating in the industrial machinery sector, which allegedly declared fictitious investments in Research and Development, using false invoices issued by a network of five compliant consulting firms. In this way, the company allegedly unduly offset taxes amounting to over one million euros .

To launder the illicit proceeds and make them available to the suspects, the organization allegedly used a sophisticated scheme based on fake preliminary real estate sales contracts. By paying large deposits, followed by a formal cancellation of the purchase, the seller retained the sums as legitimate contractual compensation, thus allowing the money from tax fraud to be "laundered."

(Unioneonline)

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