Cops uncover 24mn fraud in paper sector

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 8 - Italian tax police from Udine on Wednesday said they had uncovered a 25 million euro fraud in the Italian paper sector involving 37 operators.
    The alleged criminal organization also allegedly evaded three million euros in VAT, police said.
    The cops also carried out the preventive seizure of assets and current accounts totalling some 600,000 euros, in execution of an order by the preliminary investigations judge (GIP) of the Court of Udine, at the request of the Public Prosecutor's Office.
    A scheme of sales and purchases between several companies based in Italy and in other EU countries was discovered, police said, in order to make the tax obligations of paying VAT fall on Italian subjects who then did not make payments to the Treasury.
    Invoice transfers were made to several EU countries, police said.
    Warrants were served on six companies and eight individuals operating between Friuli Venezia Giulia, Veneto and Lombardy.
    Bank accounts were frozen and property seized in the probe.
    (ANSA).