Lapo and Ginevra Elkann have been
placed under investigation in relation to a dispute over
inheritance pertaining to the business family Agnelli, sources
said on Thursday evening.
In February the Turin public prosecutor's office opened a probe
against an initial three suspects including their brother and
Stellantis and Ferrari chairman John Elkann over the tax
treatment of the annuity that the late Gianni Agnelli's daughter
and Elkann's mother Margherita paid to her mother and Agnelli's
wife Marella under agreements made in 2004.
The years under investigation are reportedly 2018 and 2019.
Fraud against the state in relation to inheritance tax is
reportedly among the alleged crimes being probed.
The other two suspects under investigation following the
complaint filed by Margherita are the Agnelli family's Turin
accountant Gianluca Ferrer and the Swiss notary and executor of
Marella's will Urs von Grunigen.
Last month lawyers representing John Elkann said there were no
grounds to the Turin probe, describing it as "completely
non-existent".
They said that Margherita Agnelli "has been persecuting her
parents and three of her children for more than 20 years in all
judicial fora, causing a great deal of publicity in the press",
adding that the petitions she has filed "have not been upheld in
any jurisdiction, be it criminal or civil".
Photo: Lapo Elkann
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