The eighth deadly sin: Tuscany carousel

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Episode in the series The Eighth Mortal Sin
Original title The Tuscany carousel
Country of production Germany , Italy
original language German
length 90 minutes
classification Episode 2
First broadcast September 25, 2002 on Das Erste
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Director Peter Patzak
script Dieter Meichsner
production ndF
for NDR
music Peter Patzak
Otto M. Schwarz
camera Matthias Tschiedel
cut Karen Klamroth
occupation
chronology

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ghost hunt

The eighth deadly sin: The Tuscany carousel is a business crime novel by Peter Patzak from 2002 , which was created in cooperation between Germany and Italy . It is the second part of the film series The Eighth Deadly Sin . Susanne Lothar plays Marion Hansen, employed by the European Anti-Fraud Office ( OLAF), who is called on by the Italian tax official Giuseppe Montaldo, played by Franco Nero , when his boss forbids him to uncover irregularities in the tax return of an electronics retailer.

action

Pietro Angelotti, who celebrated his 75th birthday in April, was harassed by motorcyclists in an alley and later found dead. He turned his father's small installation business into a major electronics company. He supported his hometown Pisa with generous donations . The sale of his company to Mario Sforza in May of this year was a surprise and a mystery, as it had always been said that his older daughter Rosa would continue the company, but now she has a controversial man like Sforza, who is also a client of Dottore Vieri is, the most powerful lawyer in the region.

Giuseppe Mantaldo from the tax authority of the city of Pisa is ordered to see his boss Carlo Rosario, who makes it clear to him that Mario Sforza’s claim against the tax authority for reimbursement of input tax amounts must be met immediately. He wipes Mantaldo's objection that there is still a need for clarification from the table and subliminally threatens him. When Mantaldo then wanted to lodge a complaint against the head of the agency with the Guardia di Finanza, he was weighed down. When Mantaldo mentioned the death of Angelotti, who was his friend, he heard from Major Ruscio that his death was an accident, that was it! And surely he knows about Dottore Vieri's influence. Ruscio then suddenly gives him the tip to contact the European anti-fraud office OLAF in Brussels , which will take care of such cases. But he should leave his name out of the picture, nobody should find out. Mantaldo calls there and explains when asked that the manager of this company has allegedly been a German named Ritschel for a few weeks. OLAF's Pierre Schmidt-Alphand and Marion Hansen are taking on the case. They determine that Ritschel was already suspicious of subsidy fraud in Spain , which is why proceedings against him were pending with the Hanover public prosecutor's office . A conversation with the public prosecutor Arnold brings to light further crimes of Ritschel and shows that he goes into hiding again as soon as he shows up. Hansen and Schmidt-Alphand go to Pisa and want to know under what circumstances Ritschel became managing director of Angelotti. Rosario, the contact person for Hansen and Schmidt-Alphand, pretends that everything is in perfect order. Hansen wants to know where Angelotti gets its cell phones from, because based on current knowledge, they are not obtained directly from the Swedish manufacturer. An employee of Rosario says that the cell phones came from a wholesale store in Verona, but the company has since gone bankrupt. Rosario is not very willing to cooperate and blocks almost every proposal, knowing that OLAF staff have little authority. Mantaldo was standing by the open door and overheard the conversation. Hansen asks her organization to arrange a private conversation with Giuseppe Mantaldo because she noticed the looks between Rosario and Mantaldo when he brought in the file. At a meeting between the two of them, he confirmed to Hansen that Ritschel was just a lackey of the new owner Sforza.

Hansen has another conversation with Carabinieri Nester, who explains that Ritschel is out of the question for Angelotti's murder, he is too cowardly. Sforza bought Angelotti's company shortly before his death at a ridiculous price and he had an interest in his death. However, the case against him has been dropped because his lawyer Vieri is a man with enormous influence in the region. We know about Sforza that he participates in various companies and mediates profitable business for him, recently also for cell phones and CPUs, but above all for weapons, drugs and women. He shows her a photo of a man in a Ferrari known as "Margolius". The car has a Hanoverian license plate.

When asked by the public prosecutor Arnold, Hansen got the tip that Margolius could often be found in a boxing club on the outskirts of Hanover and had a conversation with him without revealing her true identity. Shortly afterwards, she meets with public prosecutor Arnold and Dr. Ellwein to pass on their findings. Arnold jumps up and points to a "carousel" that was set in motion by an offended lover who gave them informative documents. Through hard work, one got on the track of businesses that ran between Belgium , Holland , Austria , Denmark and Germany , between which cell phones were actually moved back and forth or only on account. In the meantime, the amount of damage is estimated at at least 350 million euros, with which the gang has filled its own pockets. The team that handles the cases consists of two prosecutors and six tax investigators. It is difficult to get the officials of all the countries concerned under one roof, but it has been possible to agree on an appointment with everyone. Today in a fortnight they want to strike everywhere. Previously, further investigations reveal that the Croce company in Verona buys mobile phones in Sweden and then resells them to the Angelotti company in Pisa, from where they are then resold to be distributed in the end to all the countries that make up the carousel that includes Margolius in Hanover. "If we can prove to Margolius that he is actually in contact with those down there," says the prosecutor, "then we will all get them as members of a criminal organization and our carousel will finally get the name 'Tuscany carousel'."

With a friend, journalist David Bradley, Hansen plays in his head how this business works. The enormous profits come from the different VAT regulations in the European Community and from the fact that the companies, if one has cashed in large profits, no longer run and a new company is founded elsewhere. The EC is cheated of around 60 billion euros every year, says Hansen, that is more than half the money that the EC can spend within a year. In addition, such a system would drive the small honest traders into bankruptcy because they could no longer keep up. Bradley wants to write about it. Arnold and Ellwein have traveled to Brussels, the details of the access are being discussed again. Arnold assures that one is certain that Ritschel will speak to save his own neck and that this will then set a chain reaction in motion. They wanted to arrest Ritschel for human trafficking two days before the access, a corresponding arrest warrant was still in place. A little later, Arnold and Hansen watch through binoculars how Ritschel, Sforza and Vieri and the head of the tax office, Rosario, are consulting on a yacht. Before Ritschel can still be arrested, he is found dead with a wire loop around his neck. Major Ruscio wants to speak to Arnold and Hansen. The question now is, was there a leak in the "Tuscany Commission". On the day of the access, numerous arrests were made simultaneously in all affected countries and evidence was seized. Hansen hears Jörg Margolius, Arnold and Ellwein hear from his CFO Zeise, they are cleverly played off against each other and they are shown what could happen to them. Zeise is not really aware of any guilt, he has put together reasons for himself that justify his actions. In the television reports, the individual countries put their share in the arrests in the foreground.

The film ends with Mantaldo's dog being lured into a narrow alley where motorcyclists are cornering. When he notices that the dog is missing, it is already too late, he is lying dead in the alley. Tears run down his face as he kneels down next to the loyal animal.

background

The eighth deadly sin: Tuscany carousel premiered on September 25, 2002 at the Hamburg Film Festival . The film premiered on television on April 2, 2003.

The business crime was filmed in Hanover and Pisa , among others . In the end credits we thank the command of the Carabinieri Roma , Pisa and the command of the Guardia di Finanza Roma, Pisa and the city of Pisa.

Wolfgang Pampel lends Franco Nero his voice in the German film version.

At the end of the film, Pierre Schmidt-Alphand Marion Hansen and Marietje Kampendonk reads from David Bradley's article: So we fear that Europe will remain the Eldorado for tax evaders for the foreseeable future. The price for the negligence of the politicians continues to be paid by countless small and medium-sized decent traders who have no chance in this unequal competition if they refuse to jump on the criminal VAT carousels. The clarification of the new Europe-wide case does not hide the fact that, despite their selective successes, the national investigative authorities are overwhelmed in the fight against cross-border, organized crime. The signal is therefore that the competences of the anti-fraud organization OLAF must be expanded, and OLAF must be transformed into the powerful instrument of a European law enforcement agency. However, this solution lies outside of any perspective, as the national governments will not be prepared to hand over any of their responsibilities to a European institution.

The first film in the series is entitled The Eighth Deadly Sin: Ghost Hunt .

criticism

“(TV) crime thriller about economic crime and internationally organized gangs who use the dream of a united Europe for their own dreams of big money. (Second part of the series 'The Eighth Mortal Sin') "

“The second contribution in the Deadly Sins series disappoints across the board. Dialogue and sterile. Conclusion: More like a European pudding than a real thriller "

Kino.de was of the opinion that the director of the film was in good hands with the Austrian Peter Patzak. Altogether he stages “very carefully”, but still ensures that “the film is not buried under a layer of filing dust that is a centimeter”:

“Just getting started with Pisa bathed in thousands of candlelight is a visual pleasure. Patzak, however, cannot prevent one from being a little confused at times. And the play of the actors sometimes raises the question of whether they have actually understood what they are saying. There is a reason why Franco Nero never lets the slightest doubt arise: the man once studied economics. "

- Kino.de

Web links

Individual evidence

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