Criminal law · Sub-area
Defence against economic and corporate crime, where the line between a management decision and criminal reproach is not always clear.
White-collar crime is the ground where business activity meets the Criminal Code: running a company, a financial transaction or an accounting decision that, looked at closely, can stop being a bad deal and start to carry criminal relevance. It is a technical, often documentary field, where the detail decides the matter.
It is the core of our criminal practice and connects naturally with business law: we defend both the company and its directors against a charge and those harmed by such conduct, always dealing directly with the lawyer.
The director who exceeds their powers and harms the assets they manage (article 252 of the Criminal Code), or whoever appropriates what they received with an obligation to return it or to put it to a specific use (article 253). Two figures common in corporate disputes.
Falsifying the annual accounts, imposing or exploiting harmful resolutions, obstructing shareholders' rights (articles 290 and following of the Criminal Code).
Tax fraud, which becomes a criminal offence when the amount defrauded exceeds 120,000 euros (article 305 of the Criminal Code), and Social Security fraud. Here a timely regularisation can be decisive.
Concealment of assets and other conduct frustrating enforcement (article 257 and following) and criminal insolvency: the ground where criminal and insolvency law meet.
Acquiring, converting or transferring assets of criminal origin (article 301 of the Criminal Code), increasingly present in economic investigations.
A legal person can be criminally liable for offences committed for its benefit (article 31 bis of the Criminal Code). An effective compliance programme can mitigate or exclude that liability: it is worth having before the problem arises.
In this field the evidence is usually documentary and abundant, and that is where it is won or lost. I reconstruct the transaction precisely, organise the documents that decide the case (minutes, accounts, correspondence, expert reports) and check which wording of the provision was in force on the date of the facts, not today's.
Every citation, statutory or case-law, is checked against its official source before anything is relied on. I do not promise outcomes: I offer a defence that is prepared, verifiable and with the candour to tell you from the start what it is reasonable to expect. And, where the matter calls for it, I draw on economic experts and coordination with the business-law area.
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