On display at the Mauto 17 vehicles confiscated by the Italian Finance Police

The National Automobile Museum in Turin exhibits the wonders confiscated by the Yellow Flames (the Finance Police) of Genoa in the operation Rien ne va plus

The investigations of the Finance Police Group I Genoa, which gathered evidence for about a year as part of the operation “Rien ne va plus”, have brought to light a submerged trade in historic and luxury vehicles belonging to the same subject, totally unknown to the tax authorities. Genoese, 50-something, he kept in his garage a Ferrari 360 Challenge Stradale, a 430 Scuderia, a Testarossa monodado, a Lamborghini Diablo 30° Anniversary… All jewels of which he had full availability, although he didn’t seem to be the owner.

A Ferrari 166 Inter was also sold. This guy bought the vehicles, registered them to various names, filed a report of export abroad and re-registered them in Monte Carlo. In the Principality of Monaco, other personalities took over and became the fictitious owners of the cars. Even his partner was registered as the owner of three Ferraris and a Lamborghini despite being foreign and without income. And her brothers, workers with low salaries, had classic and luxury cars in their names. This gentleman, rather meticulous, kept records on all the cars sold, from which in the investigation, conducted by the Prosecutor’s Office of Genoa, it was traced back to 35 black sales completed from 2013 to 2018. A traffic in which in the past also happened a 1948 Ferrari 166 Inter, sold to a Canadian collector for one million dollars. In total, this fellow’s accumulated debt to the Treasury is of 4.5 million euros.

Ready to be auctioned. A white Lamborghini Murcielago LP 670-4 SV has been intercepted in the U.K., thanks to the intervention of Interpol and other international cooperation channels. It was set to go to auction in Goodwood. Other cars from the same garage in Genoa were about to leave for another auction in Montecarlo. The date of the impoundment is July 17, 2018, and exactly two years later, on July 17 this year, the exhibition was inaugurated, displaying 17 of the 20 vehicles recovered. The idea proposed by the financiers to make the vehicles visible was welcomed with great enthusiasm by the management of the Museum. After all, it would have been a shame to keep them out of the sight of enthusiasts in a Finance Police garage.

Mostly Italian cars. The suspect is currently on trial and in case of conviction the vehicles will be confiscated by the State and auctioned. “The Museum will also play a role in the conservation of the vehicles”, specified the director upon the inauguration of the exibition. “Our restoration center and our external partners with whom we carry out the maintenance of our collection will take care of the confiscated vehicles. Right now it will be even more important to ensure that the quality and functionality remain intact, or even to increase them in line with the prestige of the vehicles, ensuring that the appropriate values are reached in case of sale”. The cars are made in Italy, except for a Chevrolet Corvette C1 Convertible, a Porsche Boxter and a Rover Mini Cooper. Among them also a Fiat 600 Multipla D, two Bianchina, including a Cabriolet, a Gamine Vignale, an American 500 Froggy Eyed transformed into a Jolly and a super-equipped two-tone Isetta (BMW). All of them are in very good condition. Their total value is about one million euros, including three Harley Davidson motorcycles.

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