74 mn euros impounded in Agnelli inheritance probe

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 20 - The Turin Public Prosecutor's Office has ordered the preventive seizure of 74 million euros of assets as part of its investigation into Gianni Agnelli's inheritance, sources said on Friday.
    The assets were seized from Stellantis Chairman John Elkann, who is also the CEO of the Agnelli family holding company Exor and the Ferrari chairman, his siblings Lapo and Ginevra, Turin accountant Gianluca Ferrero and Swiss notary Urs Robert Von Gruenigen. In February the Turin public prosecutor's office opened a probe 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.
    Fraud against the state in relation to inheritance tax is reportedly among the alleged crimes being probed.
    Von Grunigen was the executor of Marella's will.
    Lawyers representing John Elkann have said there were no grounds to the Turin probe, describing it as "completely non-existent".
    (ANSA).