Finance police on Wednesday seized
tax credits worth an estimated 1.7 billion euros in relation to
a probe into alleged building bonus fraud.
It is the highest seizure of tax credits ever recorded.
Some 21 people are being investigated on suspicion of criminal
association for the purposes of committing aggravated fraud
against the State in relation to the use of tax bonuses for
energy-saving construction work and work on old and new building
facades.
Police are conducting searches in nine Italian provinces in the
north and south.
The probe began after routine checks by the inland revenue
uncovered tax credit transfer notifications in the names of
people who were homeless, dead or had criminal records, as well
as bonus applications for properties that do not exist.
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