Tis
more serious than the fashion police! Fashion designers Dolce and
Gabbana have just been found guilty of tax evasion by an Italian court
and sentenced to more than a year in jail:
Domenico
Dolce and Stefano Gabbana were accused of having transferred control of
their brands to a shell company in Luxembourg in 2004 and 2005 to avoid
paying Italian taxes.
Prosecutors had argued that setting up the
Luxembourg company Gado -- an acronym of the surnames of the two
designers -- while the company was operating out of Italy was a bid to
defraud the state.
In her closing speech, prosecutor Laura Pedio
said there was "rock-solid proof" that the duo had committed
"sophisticated tax fraud".
Well, perhaps they'll come up with a new and chic line of prisonwear:
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