Seizures by the Financial Police of two restaurateurs in the Verbano area

There is also a Ferrari F8 Coupé, worth over 280 thousand euros, among the assets seized by the Financial Police from two restaurateurs from Verbano under investigation for tax fraud and self-laundering. The provision concerns the owner of the company and his brother, who appears as an employee.

The investigations, carried out by the economic-financial police unit, started from the examination of unpaid tax bills for approximately 780 thousand euros. In light of this debt to the tax authorities, what the investigators defined as a "high" standard of living stood out and was characterized, in particular, by the availability of luxury cars: the cars were formally registered in the name of the entrepreneur's brother, who declared a "modest" income as an employee.

The analysis of banking relationships for the period 2021-2025 has brought to light drainage from the company's accounts of approximately 220 thousand euros. The sums, through cash withdrawals and bank transfers without any corporate justification, were transferred to the personal accounts of family members. Part of these resources, according to the prosecution's hypothesis, would have flowed into the brother's account, from which the installments of the loans taken out for the purchase of the cars were paid.

The Verbania prosecutor's office has opened a case for fraudulent evasion of tax payments and self-laundering. The seizure concerns the Ferrari, a Rolex Oyster model watch and cash for over 346 thousand euros.