On 25 February 2025, the second major preventive seizure of assets in Italy was carried out against the DHL Group, following the more than twenty million euros seizure in 2021 involving DHL Supply Chain Italy. This time, the prosecutor's office has launched an investigation into the express transport division, DHL Express Italy, again for offences related to worker exploitation and tax evasion, ordering an urgent preventive seizure of 46.8 million euros. The Corriere della Sera reported on 26 February 2025 that the charges against the Italian branch of the German company date back to the period between 2019 and 2023, during which a tax fraud scheme was allegedly implemented through false invoices linked to labour supply contracts. Public prosecutors Paolo Storari and Valentina Mondovì have placed under investigation the company executive who signed the VAT returns for the period under scrutiny, on charges of fraudulent declaration using invoices for non-existent transactions. In the coming days, the investigating judge will examine the case file to decide whether to validate the seizure.
