Two "fictitious" trust funds at the
Bahamas and "fake donations" of artwork and precious objects
worth 170 million euros were among "new" investigative evidence
on the fortune owned by the late Marella Carocciolo, Gianni
Agnelli's widow who died in 2019, mentioned by Turin's tribunal
in a decree last week that ordered the preventive seizure of 74
million euros of assets from her three grandchildren and two
other people under investigation.
Investigators believe they were part of mechanisms to reduce
Caracciolo's inheritance and pay less taxes.
Last week, the Turin court ordered the seizure as part of its
investigation into Gianni Agnelli's inheritance.
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.
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