The Turin Public Prosecutor's Office
has ordered the preventive seizure of 74 million euros of assets
as part of its investigation into Gianni Agnelli's inheritance,
sources said on Friday.
The assets were seized from Stellantis Chairman John Elkann, who
is also the CEO of the Agnelli family holding company Exor and
the Ferrari chairman, his siblings Lapo and Ginevra, Turin
accountant Gianluca Ferrero and Swiss notary Urs Robert Von
Gruenigen.
In February the Turin public prosecutor's office opened a probe
over the tax treatment of the annuity that the late Gianni
Agnelli's daughter and Elkann's mother Margherita paid to her
mother and Agnelli's wife Marella under agreements made in 2004.
Fraud against the state in relation to inheritance tax is
reportedly among the alleged crimes being probed.
Von Grunigen was the executor of Marella's will.
Lawyers representing John Elkann have said there were no grounds
to the Turin probe, describing it as "completely non-existent".
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