(Jamma) The Court of Auditors rejected the appeal of two Aams executives who were convicted of tax damages in the context of the investigation that the accounting judges started on the introduction of slot machines on the Italian market. "It is believed - reads the sentence - that the initiation of the investigations and the consequent initiatives of the regional prosecutor's office, aimed at the acquisition, first of all, of documentation concerning the concession relationships maintained by the AAMS with the various concessionary companies and, subsequently, to the deepening of the various cognitive elements gradually emerging from the delegation conferred to the Guardia di Finanza and, lastly, from the contents of the so-called "Grandi report", were not only lawful but downright obligatory; these initiatives do not at all constitute a form of generalized control over the activity of the State Monopolies Administration but rather represent an institutional activity of verifying hypotheses of tax damage (to be then submitted, it is repeated, to the scrutiny of the accounting judge) emerging from sources of knowledge endowed with the characteristics required to legitimize the opening of the dispute and the completion of the connected preliminary investigations".
