Milan, Jan. 29 (LaPresse) – Milan's financial police are seizing more than €46.6 million in these minutes from FedEx Express Italy srl, the Italian branch of the American multinational logistics and shipping company, in an investigation by the Milan Public Prosecutor's Office for tax fraud involving non-existent invoices in work contracts between 2022 and 2023. The soldiers of the Economic and Financial Police Unit are implementing an urgent preventive seizure order ordered by prosecutors Paolo Storari and Valentina Mondovì. The company is being investigated under the law on the administrative liability of entities, together with the manager who signed the 2022 VAT declaration, Stefania Pezzetti, 56, from Turin, former managing director of FedEx (she is now CEO of Brt) and president of the Italian federation of transporters (Fedit), and Jan Bernd Haaksman, 54, from the Netherlands, who is liable for the alleged 2023 fraud. This is the 33rd investigation, in about five years, of the Milan Public Prosecutor's Office, which is targeting the labour supply chains of large multinationals or leading companies in the logistics and porterage sector (Dhl, Gls, Ups, Brt, Schenker, Aldieri, Geodis, UberEats, Chiapparoli, GXO Logistics Italy, AF Logistics spa), fashion (Movimoda, Giorgio Armani Operations, Alviero Martini, Manufactures Dior), e-commerce (Amazon), surveillance (Securitalia, Mondialpol, Cosmopol, All System, Battistolli), large-scale distribution (Carrefour, Lidl, Spreafico, Esselunga, Aspiag-Despar) and other giants in the food, construction, cleaning, events sectors with charges that, depending on the case, ranged from tax fraud, to illegal labour, to failure to supervise contracts and led to the recovery of around EUR 600 million from the tax authorities and the stabilisation of thousands of workers.
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