Tax cops seize 86 mn euro from UPS

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 14 - The Milan Finance Police, acting on behalf of the Public Prosecutor's Office, on Thursday seized more than 86 million euros from UPS Italia, a leading company in the Italian logistics sector.
    The urgent preventive seizure order was signed by Prosecutor Paolo Storari as part of a new investigation centred on the phenomenon of an alleged illegal supply of labour.
    Several searches were also underway at UPS offices in Milan, Como, Rome, and Reggio Emilia.
    The Milan Public Prosecutor's Office has also requested an injunction prohibiting UPS Italia, at the centre of a new investigation into VAT fraud worth more than EUR 86 million, from advertising services and goods for one year. In the investigation, the three legal directors of the group's Italian company, who succeeded each other from 2017 to 2022, are under investigation.
    The alleged fraud, according to the prosecutor's reconstruction, took place by making labour contracts appear with external companies, consortia or co-ops, when in reality it would have been a matter of labour administration. (ANSA).