Perugia, ‘bonus facades’ fraud: 80 million fictitious credits seized

The Guardia di Finanza has implemented a preventive seizure decree, issued, at the request of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, by the investigating judge of the Court of Perugia against 10 companies and 53 natural persons – currently, subjected to preliminary investigations for issuing invoices for transactions non-existent, fraud against public bodies, self-laundering and administrative offenses resulting from a crime pursuant to Legislative Decree no. 231/2001 – which would have generated and marketed fictitious tax credits relating to the so-called “bonus facades” (the tax relief introduced by the Government to mitigate the economic effects of the pandemic and consisting in the tax deduction equal to the amount of expenses incurred for interventions of recovery or restoration of the exteriors of the buildings). The investigating judge, in acceptance of the request made by the public prosecutor and deemed to exist “the need to put an end to the illegal negotiations established”, ordered the seizure of non-existent tax credits for an amount of about 80 million euros as well as money, real estate and corporate assets in an amount equivalent to the profit of the scam, for an amount of over 3,000,000 euros.