Entrepreneur from Adrano was the mastermind of a large diesel fraud: five under investigation and seizures for 235,000 euros

He would have supplied himself with diesel, about 400,000 liters in total, from refineries in Eastern Europe that he brought to Italy by road or rail, using documents that falsely certified the transport of bio anti-corrosive liquid, exempt from taxes.

This was the mechanism, according to the Prosecutor's Office of Catania, created by a Sicilian entrepreneur and his four alleged accomplices investigated for fraudulent evasion of excise duties on energy products.

Against them, the financial police executed, in the provinces of Catania, Syracuse, Enna, Cesena, and Rome, a preventive custody order and seized assets worth 235,000 euros, 143,000 liters of energy products, an illegal depot, seven tank containers, tractors, semi-trailers, and 58 tanks.

At the center of the investigations is the entrepreneur from Adrano in the transport and logistics sector, Alfredo Carcagnolo, 38 years old, who the Prosecutor also accuses of having procured reduced-tax diesel for agricultural use, with the complicity of Armando Grillo, 73 years old, and a cooperative from Biancavilla managed by Rocco Di Primo, 51 years old, with whom he supplied his company vehicles, achieving significant tax savings since that fuel has lower rates compared to those provided for road transport.

According to the investigations by the Pef unit of the Catania Financial Police, Carcagnolo, thanks to the intermediation of Andrea Morroni, 78 years old, owner of the English company Oil & Oil trading Ltd, would have supplied himself with about 400,000 liters of diesel from three refineries in Eastern Europe, bringing it into Italy as 'corrosive bio liquid', a product exempt from taxes, with the complicity of three drivers, one of whom is Piero Puglisi, 39 years old.

At the conclusion of the investigations by the Financial Police, at the request of the Etna Prosecutor's Office, the Gip of Catania ordered the obligation to present oneself to the judicial police for Carcagnolo and Puglisi and the prohibition of engaging in business activities for Morroni, Grillo, and Di Primo. The seizure of the companies that, according to the prosecution, would be involved in the fraud was also ordered: Tir international, Logistica zero, and New logistica di Adrano, managed by Carcagnolo, totaling 235 thousand euros. Tir internazionale was also seized for 'administrative liability of the entity' because it is a capital company in whose interest and advantage, according to the Prosecutor's Office, 'the illicit system was implemented'.