Overview
- Preventive seizure orders total about €27.3 million, with roughly €24.68 million targeting Ceva Logistics Italia and €2.71 million aimed at Ceva Ground Logistics Italy.
- Investigators allege that from 2020 to 2024 Ceva used invoices for non-existent services and simulated subcontracts to mask irregular labor supply and claim undue VAT deductions.
- Ceva CEO Christophe Boustouller and other managers are under investigation, and the companies are being probed for potential corporate liability under Italy’s law 231/2001.
- The Guardia di Finanza is conducting searches and seizing IT systems across Italy as part of the ongoing investigation authorized by the Milan prosecutor’s office.
- Prosecutors describe the conduct as a deliberate business policy rather than isolated acts, situating the case within a wider Milan effort that has regularized 54,229 workers and recovered over €1.07 billion for the tax authority.