Bonus casa, seizures of over nine billion lire by the GdF. Undeclared work: 60,000 illegal workers discovered

A picture has emerged from the fight against fraud on national funding and social security and welfare expenditure that once again causes more than one alarm: almost one billion is the value of unduly received contributions. While for those of EU origin the counter marks a value of 812 million euro.

Thanks to the cooperation with the criminal and accounting judiciary, 19,674 investigations into public spending were carried out, which led to more than 31,000 individuals being reported and 6,345 perpetrators being reported to the Court of Auditors, with more than EUR 3 billion in damages being ascertained.

The focus on the management of public resources also emerges from the chapter on contracts. The Fiamme gialle monitored procedures for the awarding and execution of works and services worth more than EUR 14.7 billion.

The fight against bribery and other crimes against the public administration remains strong, relying on investigations, including financial and asset investigations, to reconstruct criminal schemes and the role of those involved. The operations carried out led to the arrest of 257 people, the prosecution of 3,178 and the seizure of assets worth EUR 334 million.

In the fight against organised crime, also aimed at detecting fictitious asset registrations, 406 investigations were concluded, which resulted in 1907 individuals being reported to the judicial authorities, 437 of whom were subject to restraining orders.

In addition, in the light of anti-mafia legislation, 19,867 subjects were subjected to asset investigations, which led to the application of seizure, confiscation and judicial administration orders worth more than 3.6 billion.

In addition, 89,864 inspections were carried out following requests received from the Prefects, the majority of which (89,646) related to checks for the purpose of issuing anti-mafia documentation.

A very important front of intervention for the Corps remains the contrast against money laundering and self-laundering, which also makes it possible to reconstruct other related offences. Under the Guardia di Finanza's lens, in fact, as many as 251,880 suspicious financial flows arrived from financial intermediaries, professionals and other subjects obliged to report suspicious transactions. Approximately 500 of these concerned the financing of terrorism.

In addition, 2,124 interventions were carried out, which led to the indictment of 5,316 persons, of whom 461 were arrested, and to the reconstruction of illegal transactions worth more than 6.8 billion.

As part of the fight against cybercrime phenomena of an economic-financial nature, cryptocurrencies worth over 75 million euro were seized, as well as Italy's first mining farm capable of minting new virtual currencies.

The protection of savers, on the other hand, involved combating all forms of banking and financial abuse, carried out mainly through telematic channels and increasingly innovative digital tools, with 613 subjects being reported and seizures of over 92 million euro being executed.

But fraud and offences have a very broad spectrum and the Guardia di Finanza also put 'manoeuvres' on fuel and tobacco in their sights. In the first case, the just under 4,600 interventions carried out on excise duties led to the seizure of over 6,879 tonnes of energy products. On the other hand, more than 83,000 customs inspections were carried out on goods brought into the country in tax evasion, counterfeit goods or in violation of safety regulations.

On the second front, the fight against smuggling led to the detection of more than 526 tonnes of foreign processed tobacco products consumed fraudulently or seized and the reporting of 1,130 subjects.

Checks and investigations against illegal gambling led to the discovery of almost 400 clandestine betting points and the prosecution of more than 430 perpetrators.