(ANSA) – TURIN, 03 AUG – They had set up a system to make foreign citizens who claim to reside in Turin, but who instead continue to live abroad, illegally receive citizenship income. A scam of over 1,400,000 euros that discovered by the financial police of the Piedmontese capital which led to five precautionary measures, one under house arrest, against an employee of a patronage, and four signature obligations towards Romanian citizens.
The investigations coordinated by the Turin Public Prosecutor’s Office made it possible to identify the employee of the Institute of Patronage, national social assistance to citizens / Caf National Union of entrepreneurs and farmers, who would have forwarded numerous requests to the INPS portal, aimed at allowing the undue disbursement of the income.
Applications in which, according to the investigators, at least 314 people, mainly Romanian citizens, had falsely declared that they resided under the Mole, to benefit from benefited from the income. The woman, together with her husband, using documents and false declarations, presented the requests without the requirement provided for by the law to have resided for at least ten years in Italy, the last two of which continuously. To assist them there were the four Romanians who acted as collector “between the couple and the beneficiaries of the service. (ANSA).
Source: Ansa
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