The magistrates in Turin are painstakingly working on the investigation by the prosecutor's office of the Piedmontese capital, which is looking into the alleged tax fraud within the Agnelli-Elkann family. In addition to the material already collected during the searches carried out by the finance guard at the headquarters of the family's trust companies and Dicembre, the family's safe, as well as at Villa Frescot, a historic residence nestled in the hills of Turin, other important documents and files need to be added to complete the picture.
Foreign accounts issue
The investigators are indeed interested in the original documents, concerning the entire inheritance issue of the family. Starting from the "total absence of original documents at the base of the inheritance issue, since the succession" of Giovanni Agnelli. Not to mention the exchange of emails and other computer documents that were stored on the PCs. Some of the material would have already allowed the finance guard to identify, according to the 'Fatto Quotidiano', five hundred million euros in foreign accounts, linked to old deposits of Gianni Agnelli and the widow Marella. The daughter of the Lawyer, Margherita Agnelli, who in 2022 had filed a report, suggesting tax violations, would have spoken about these funds.
The accusations
Margherita claims that she and her five children, had with the Russian count, resident in France, Serge de Pahlen, would have been excluded from the inheritance. From here a long war fought with stamped papers and in the courtrooms with the other children had with Alan Elkann, Lapo, Ginevra and John, the latter now under investigation along with Giancarlo Ferrero, in the role of accountant and not as president of Juventus, and Urs von Gruenigen, Swiss notary who drafted the wills of Marella Caracciolo Agnelli.
The agreement
Margherita had signed an agreement with her mother, in Geneva in 2004, a year after the death of Gianni Agnelli, in which the second daughter of the Lawyer renounced her stakes in the family companies, liquidating the share of the company Dicembre, obtaining in return the transfer of assets for the equivalent of 1.3 billion. Marella, who died in 2019, had indicated the three Elkanns in the inheritance and Margherita had contested the wills before the Swiss authorities claiming to be the victim of a conspiracy.
The investigation
From the investigation of the Turin prosecutor's office at the moment there have certainly been surprises, such as those that came from the graphological consultancy wanted by the magistrates, in which it is highlighted that there is a "reasonably apocryphal nature of the signatures attributable to Marella in some documents".
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