The investigation into the Agnelli household's inheritance takes a step ahead. The Turin prosecutors have ordered the seizure of 74.8 million euros (together with movable and immovable property) towards the Elkan brothers John, Lapo and Ginevra, the accountant Gianluca Ferrero and the Swiss notary Urs Robert Von Grunigen.
The Turin Prosecutor's Office is alleging the crimes of fraudulent declaration and aggravated fraud towards the State towards the defendants.
The inheritance succession
The operation was concluded by the Economic and Financial Police Unit of the Turin Guardia di Finanza, which reconstructed the Elkann monetary flows related to the occasions of the inheritance of Marella Caracciolo and the associated household disputes between Margherita Agnelli and her kids John, Lapo and Ginevra (respectively daughter and grandchildren of the of whom).
According to the Guardia di Finanza, appreciable accounting and non-accounting documentation has been recognized – together with computer-based documentation – which, at current, has confirmed the accusatory speculation, which was additionally the topic of the unique grievance from which the investigation arose, relating to the fictional international residence of Marella Caracciolo and the existence of a legal plan geared toward eradicating her appreciable property and associated revenue from Italian inheritance and tax legal guidelines.
It might be remembered
A memorandum discovered through the searches particulars the measures to be carried out to assist Caracciolo's fictitious Swiss residence. Evidence additionally got here from the statements made by the lady's collaborators. Based on the investigations, the Guardia di Finanza quantified the revenue earned by Caracciolo and never declared to the Italian tax authorities, in addition to the property to be subjected to inheritance and present tax.
Irpef and inheritance and present taxes
From the revenue tax perspective, an evaded Irpef (proceeds from the crime of tax fraud) of roughly 42.8 million was quantified, deriving from the subtraction from taxation of a life annuity acquired by Caracciolo (amounting — within the years from 2015 to 2019 — to over 29 million) and of capital features (for roughly 116.7 million) deriving from monetary property held by trusts based mostly within the Bahamas.
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