Criminal association dedicated to money laundering and usury is vanquished: searches also in Ivrea

Maxi operation of the carabinieri at the instigation of the Turin prosecutor’s office: 115 suspects, 14 precautionary measures carried out. Twenty kilos of ingots seized: a treasure of 1.3 million

IVREA. There are also entrepreneurs from Canavese and Ivrea among the 115 suspects in the operation carried out yesterday, July 5, by the Carabinieri of the Investigative Unit of the Turin provincial command. Precautionary measures were carried out for 14 of them: from arrests to signature obligations. These are Italian entrepreneurs and accountants, who, according to the evidence collected, would be part, for various reasons, of a criminal association dedicated to multiple fraud, false invoicing, money laundering and usury. The carabinieri seized twenty kilos of gold bars and dozens of wads of money on the outskirts of Turin: a treasure worth 1.3 million euros.

The investigation, launched in 2019 by the Turin prosecutor’s office, on the basis of the elements collected, made it possible to acquire clues about the hypothesized existence of a partnership which, through 25 companies specifically set up thanks to the complicity of third parties or using falsified documents, would have perpetrated various offenses. Starting with the scams to the Gestore dei Servizi Energetici spa, a company wholly owned by the Ministry of the Economy and Finance by obtaining undue disbursement of Energy efficiency certificates, subsequently sold to third-party companies, obtaining an economic value for a total amount of approximately 25 million. of Euro.

We then move on to fraud against banking and financial institutions, also through the fraudulent acquisition of VAT credits, through the issue of non-existent invoicing, with a total damage of about 50 million euros. Then there is the recycling of proceeds through the transfer of resources abroad and / or the purchase of precious metals (gold bars and coins), the fictitious attribution to third parties, also thanks to the use of false general information and interest rate loans. usurious. At the same time as the precautionary measures, 31 preventive seizures of as many current accounts in Italy and abroad were carried out, as well as 13 house searches against further suspects, also in Ivrea and Chivasso.