Superbonus, investigations in the Brand: Finance on the hunt for intermediaries

After the seizure of 109 million from Consorzio Sgai, attention is focused on the companies that have collaborated

TREVISO. The center of the investigation is in Naples, but its branches point directly to Treviso. These days the Guardia di Finanza is focusing on the brand companies that have acted together or on behalf of the Sgai Consortium.

After the news of the investigation and the kidnapping ordered by the Naples prosecutor to the detriment of the Neapolitan group, dozens of other phone calls arrived yesterday at the office of the lawyer Maria Bruschi. All of people worried because they recognized the name of the consortium in their papers.

In the Marca the cases are very numerous, today it is not yet possible to quantify the exact damages to the Treviso citizens who have entrusted the work for the superbonus to the Sgai Consortium, but who have not even seen the works start.

About a hundred complaints were filed by the Bruschi studio alone, mostly from Treviso, as well as some from Padua, Belluno and Friuli. Sgai replied, assuring that he will demonstrate the correctness of his work, and claiming that out of 5,709 customers the complaints come from a minimum part.

A version that certainly does not coincide with that of the lawyer Bruschi, nor with that of the Naples Public Prosecutor’s Office, which ordered the seizure of 109 million tax credits, 83 of which have already been monetized, carrying out, through the yellow flames dislocated in the territory, 21 searches in Veneto, Lombardy, Friuli, Piedmont, Lazio, Abruzzo, Campania, Calabria.

In Treviso, the financial police knocked on the door of an office in the historic center, which served as the local consortium headquarters. But it would have been a front seat. There is not even any suspect from the Marca, but what turns out are dozens of ghost yards, worth millions of euros, which are keeping the Treviso people anxious.

The system, reconstructed by the Guard of Finance of Naples, started from the activity of the brokers, who proposed to private individuals to carry out the work in their homes to obtain the super bonus: coat, window frames, photovoltaic. All that was needed to get the tax benefit. They had them stipulate contracts with the assignment of credits. But once the documentation necessary to start the practices – or part of it – was obtained, the Consortium disappeared. In the complaints presented by citizens, not only Sgai is mentioned, but also a couple of companies based in the Treviso area.

Then, having obtained the necessary signatures, the Consortium would have issued invoices for non-existent transactions with private individuals. The invoices then appeared on the tax drawer of each individual taxpayer, with the assignment of the credit, thanks to the asseveration of accountants and professionals on which the Finance department found “significant anomalies”. This is one of the other focuses of the investigation, also in the Treviso area; because we want to understand who, and how, in the Treviso area collaborated in the Sgai system.