14 Chinese entrepreneurs reported for €50 million in fraudulent invoices.

They issued false invoices totaling €50 million (€11 million in evaded VAT). Fourteen Chinese entrepreneurs, eight of whom were active in the industrial district of the Chair Triangle, were reported to the Udine Prosecutor's Office. The investigations of the Guardia di Finanza allowed them to ascertain that three local companies, managed by three Chinese, had inserted, in their accounting, invoices for non-existent transactions for over 2 million and 300 thousand euros, issued by six paper mills, which turned out to be true. and empty boxes, created for the sole purpose of evading VAT and reducing the operating profit on which Friulian companies would have had to pay the taxes due to the State. The investigation has transcended regional borders. Reports of criminal charges against representatives of the paper mills have been forwarded to the competent judicial authorities (Turin, Milan, Florence, Lecco, Treviso, and Rome) for the recovery, for tax purposes, of taxes evaded by 109 users of the false invoices, resulting in the seizure of their assets.

The preliminary investigations judge of the Udine court has issued two separate precautionary seizure orders, amounting to nearly one million euros, against four individuals, each holding various roles as directors of three upholstery workshops in the Udine industrial district. This has allowed the seizure of financial assets, movable property, and immovable property totaling over 600,000 euros.