The financiers of the economic-financial police unit of Trieste have concluded an articulated investigation activity in the against a company based in Palermo, but operating permanently sub-contracted in the territory of Friuli Venezia Giulia for a shipbuilding operator based in the capital Giuliano, seizing about 500 thousand euros of assets and availability profit from bankruptcy and tax crimes. The Guard of Finance announced that the investigations, conducted under the direction of the of the Public Prosecutor's Office of Palermo, have ascertained that the company, which is part of a corporate group that, overall, it develops a turnover of more than six million euros, was put into judicial liquidation for insolvency vis-à-vis creditors. At the same time, his partner sole and administrator implemented in a non-occasional manner a series of criminal conducts aimed at impoverishing the assets to the detriment of multiple creditors, including in employees (who have been transferred from other regions) and the tax administration.

The investigations also found that the entrepreneur had falsified financial statements for years in order to disguise the state of instability of the company and carry out further episodes of distraction to the detriment of the financial guarantee for creditors. In in particular, he had unduly embezzled money from the coffers and then transfer it to personal or corporate current accounts. family members or use it for expenses not related to the activity of business. Travel, concerts, branded watches, high quality jewelry jewellery, stays at luxury resorts: these are the voices of personal expense of the entrepreneur with the company's money, to detriment, on the one hand, of the treasury and, on the other, of the employees, who have seen themselves without the due remuneration, including, moreover, also shifts carried out outside from the island.

The Guardia di Finanza specified that the mismanagement was so has inevitably led to the increase in the numerous and large debt situations, with a total liability accumulated more than eight million euros, which caused the opening of the judicial liquidation of the company. The survey has led to the referral of the entrepreneur to the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Palermo for fraudulent asset bankruptcy (art. 322, paragraph 1, of the Business Crisis and Insolvency Code) and fraudulent evasion of the payment of taxes (art. 11 of D. Legislative Decree no. 74/2000). The consequent search activities conducted in the regional capital, in collaboration with the financiers of the Palermo Group have made it possible to identify, in addition to further sources of evidence, also assets "economically attackable" in the name of the suspect who were subjected to to seizure.