Vicenza, €4 million fraud discovered on Superbonus tax credits: two reported

False attestations to benefit from the tax credits linked to the 110% superbonus amounting to 4 million euro. This is what emerged from an investigation carried out by the financiers of the Vicenza Provincial Command, as part of a complex investigation coordinated by the Vicenza Public Prosecutor's Office, and as part of actions to combat fraud in the field of public spending and the protection of state resources.

The investigations, carried out by the Fiamme Gialle of the Bassano del Grappa Group, as underlined by the Guardia di Finanza in a press release, 'brought to light a system devised by a professional, denounced for aggravated fraud to the detriment of the State, with the collaboration of an architect under investigation for false attestations in technical asseverations'.

According to what has been reconstructed by the military, the mechanism was based on the issuance, by a sole proprietor, of invoices for energy requalification and renovation works that were in fact never carried out. "These operations made it possible to fictitiously generate tax credits, credited in the 'tax drawers' of totally unsuspecting customers," reconstructed the Fiamme gialle in a note, "The fraud then continued through the falsification of the signatures of the clients on the credit transfer forms. Once acquired, the non-existent credits were sold to third-party companies, allowing them to be monetised and producing a huge illegal profit'.

The system, as ascertained by the military, 'would have allowed the creation of more than 4 million euros in fictitious tax credits'. The Judicial Authority ordered the seizure of the credits still pending and available to the suspects and the transferee companies, as well as the illegal profit from their sale, quantified at over one million euro.

In the course of the operations, 'carried out also by means of searches in the homes and offices of the suspects, with the support of cash dogs,' underlined the Financial Police of Vicenza, 'the investigators seized assets for a total value of approximately EUR 2.2 million, including tax credits, financial assets on current accounts, and a flat in the Vicenza area.