Assets Seized in Tax Evasion Scheme by Car Dealership in Cellole

Cars, two properties and financial availability worth 318 thousand euros were seized by the Guardia di Finanza on the order of the Gip of the court of Santa Maria Capua Vetere against the owners of a car dealership in Cellole (Caserta), accused of committing various tax offenses, including VAT evasion. From the checks carried out by the financiers of the Tenenza di Sessa Aurunca and the Prosecutor's Office of Santa Maria Capua Vetere, it emerged that the dealers would have devised a system to purchase already registered cars from abroad using frontmen; these were inserted as administrators in paper companies, existing only on paper, whose sole purpose was to interpose between the entrepreneurs of Cellole and foreign dealers, especially Germans, where the cars were purchased. The straw men bought the already registered car, brought it to Italy and at the various Campanian offices of the Motorization, in particular Caserta, but also Naples and Salerno, they would have presented - according to investigators - false documentation in the name of unsuspecting buyers, especially purchase invoices issued by foreign dealers, which showed the payment of VAT, which obviously had never occurred; on the basis of such documents, the public offices then proceeded with the registration and the dealership could resell a car at a price lower than the market one, not having paid the VAT.