Turin prosecutors have ordered the seizure of assets worth 74.8 million euros as part of the investigation into Gianni Agnelli's inheritances. The measure concerns siblings John, Lapo and Ginevra Elkann, accountant Gianluca Ferrero and Swiss notary Urs Robert Von Grunigen. The crimes charged are tax fraud and defrauding the State. The investigation, which began earlier this year, centers on allegations that Elkann and his brothers failed to pay taxes in Italy on assets they inherited after the February 2019 death of their grandmother Marella Caracciolo, wife of Gianni Agnelli. It all stems from the inheritance clash between the Elkanns and their mother Margherita over the legacy of Gianni Agnelli, who died in 2003. Margherita in 2004 signed an agreement whereby she renounced her father's shares and her mother's future inheritance in exchange for 1.2 billion euros. Agnelli's daughter, however, after some began to suspect that part of the inheritance had been hidden from her and launched a court offensive. Margherita Agnelli claims to have been deprived of her legitimate share of the assets first of her father Gianni and then of her mother Marella. An argument based on the alleged falsity of the Swiss residence declared by the lawyer's widow from 2004 until her death in 2019, which would have allowed her to make a will according to Swiss law in favor of her grandchildren, excluding the Italian Civil Code and therefore her daughter.
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