The prosecutor's office is investigating Pregis, a leader in large-scale restaurant distribution, for tax evasion

The Milan prosecutor's office seized 13 million from Pregis, a leading company in the food distribution sector to hotels and restaurants, and is investigating the top management, i.e. the CEO Ivo Gentilini, and the company itself for tax evasion.

As in other investigations related to logistics and large-scale distribution, here too we speak of "manpower reservoirs": contracts and subcontracts aimed at strengthening the workforce while ensuring considerable savings on labor costs thanks to outsourcing and the physiological reduction of industrial and trade union relations. But the tanks evidently don't even pay VAT and social security contributions to INPS. An evasion therefore which is accompanied by the mistreatment of workers.

For prosecutor Paolo Storari "the fraudulent mechanism is still in place, with very significant losses for the treasury and situations of labor exploitation that continue, to the full advantage of the institution, which does not appear to have adopted any effective control nor any different management method aimed at reducing the illicit effects of the mechanism". Advantages that would be calculated at 13 million, relating to the period 2022-2025, to the advantage of the company's top management alone (the company's latest balance sheet is almost 700 million).

The investigations also reveal the absolute absence of internal procedures aimed at intercepting the presence of subjects with fiscal problems in the supply chain.