Italian police units dismantled several markets for the illegal sale of alcoholic beverages, mainly from Cuba and other regions of Latin America.
According to local newspaper El Metropolitano, the financiers of Como’s provincial command of the Guardia di Finanza conducted several articulated investigations in the cities of Como and Bergamo, which resulted in an operational intervention in the commercialization of alcoholic beverages in foreign markets.
Investigations conducted by Como Group agents intercepted 4,500 bottles of “smuggled” spirits and spirits; as well as some counterfeit items, including protective masks illegally representing the Disney and Marvel brands, and half a ton of spoiled food. The authorities found that the products did not comply with the tax regulations for importation into Italy, nor did they contain documentation clarifying their importation.
The intervention of the Como Financial Police made it possible to dismantle a fraud scheme that consisted in the clandestine importation of alcohol from abroad through unauthorized “channels”, avoiding in particular storage in Italian tax warehouses , or facilities authorized by the tax authorities for the The text of El Metropolitano specifies that the manufacture, transformation, possession, receipt or shipment of goods are subject to specific taxes.
The importation of these illegal products, mainly of Cuban, Brazilian, Argentinian, Mexican and Colombian production, was carried out with total tax evasion. They also clarify that among the criminally seized assets are whiskey, tequila, rum, vodka and beer.
Regarding the police operations, they indicated that they were carried out at two points of sale, attributable to the same person and located respectively in Como and Bergamo. And in them was achieved the criminal confiscation of 1,540 bottles of alcohol and spirits, deducted from the payment of special taxes in Italy, and they established, through the analysis of accounting documents for the 2021 financial year, the fraudulent sale of more than 3,000 bottles of alcohol, in full of tax evasion.
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As part of the police operations carried out, Fiamme gialle Lariane also found in the Como store the presence of an employee without the documents required for employment.
The Como Fiamme Gialle also proceeded with the administrative seizure aimed at the immediate destruction of a ton of poorly stored foodstuffs, including poultry, fish, spices and flour, the possession of which violated sectoral laws on hygiene and food safety.
Como Group agents, together with Bergamo ATS officials, showed the company’s legal representative, a man of Peruvian nationality, before the Como and Bergamo Public Prosecutor’s Office for the crimes of payment theft and investigation of special taxes on alcoholic beverages, counterfeiting, receipt of stolen goods, Employment of illegal workers on the national territory and poor conservation status of food.
Meanwhile, they explain that the operation is part of the activities carried out by both the Guardia di Finanza and the Economic and Financial Police to protect tax revenue, competition, the market, workers and industrial areas in the productive sector, the import and marketing of products intended for Italian consumers.
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