A Ferrari Purosangue and assets held in several current accounts have been frozen by the Gip (judge for preliminary investigations) of the Court of Turin, where the Guardia di Finanza (Italy’s financial police) executed preventive seizure orders worth more than €1m against a road haulage company and its two directors, one formally appointed and one acting de facto. The measures were issued as part of proceedings over alleged fraudulent conduct in the field of excise duties on energy products.
The investigation by the Guardia di Finanza concerns a number of substitute declarations submitted to obtain diesel excise duty credit, namely the applications through which road haulage companies request recognition of a tax credit calculated on the fuel consumption of their industrial vehicles. Investigators believe that between 2021 and 2025 the Turin-based limited company submitted a series of false declarations to the Customs Agency, avoiding assessment and payment of excise duty on energy products for an equivalent tax amount exceeding €1m. According to the allegations, the credit accrued in this way was then used for undue offsets against other taxes owed by the company, for more than €900,000.
The Guardia di Finanza added that the investigation reconstructed the reuse of profits in economic activities and led to the acquisition of evidence pointing to the company’s de facto management being attributable to a person other than its legal representative. That distinction played a role in identifying the recipients of the precautionary measures, which were extended to both suspects as well as to the company. The alleged offences are ideological falsehood committed by a private individual in a public deed, self-laundering, undue offsetting, fraudulent evasion of tax payments, and evasion of assessment or payment of excise duty on energy products.
