Basic income to camorrists, robbers and illegal parking attendants: the police unmasks 5 thousand crafty ones, authors of a € 20 million scam. Unscrupulousness, amorality, lack of scruples (and modesty), and enough imagination: and this the identikit of the “crafty” of the citizenship income drawn by the Carabinieri who have almost ascertained 5,000 irregularities in five regions: Campania, Puglia, Abruzzo, Molise and Basilicata. Investigators divided them into four major subgroups.
IN FAMILY: in Collepasso (Lecce), a man declared the presence in his family unit of six foreign minors never registered in that municipality, without having any family ties with them and without indicating their place of birth and nationality. In the same municipality, a couple has included other relatives in their family unit, actually residing in Germany. In Nova Siri (Matera) the Carabinieri denounced an Asian citizen for falsely declaring the presence in Italy of his wife and two daughters, who thus received the income while continuing to live in the country of origin. In Naples there is the curious case of a man from the Stella neighborhood, present in two different families who had both requested and obtained the benefit.
In the province of Caserta another declared to be part of a family unit made up of several people but in fact non-existent. In Santeramo in Colle (Bari) a woman was reported because she had “forgotten” to indicate not only her car but also her spouse: in order to receive the citizenship income she had requested the registered residence in a street that was the same as the apartment where her husband resides. Single apartment, two different entrances. In the province of Caserta, eight people from the same family have falsely certified that they belong to 3 distinct families and that they reside in as many apartments in the same building.
“NULLATENENTI”: In the province of Avellino, among others, a 70-year-old cohabiting with a municipal official (not investigated) who owned a Ferrari, numerous properties and different land received the citizenship income and a 50-year-old indicated as the regent of the “Cavalese” Camorra clan. The owner of a car rental company in Isernia, owner of 27 cars, and the owner of a large pleasure boat residing in Aradeo (Lecce) also had access to the subsidy: it was a pity that he was under house arrest. In Taranto the “task force” set up by the Carabinieri identified a 71-year-old unemployed who collected income despite being the owner, with his wife and son, of 17 cars and a motorcycle: among the models, a BMW, a Mini Cooper, 3 Jeeps , 2 Smart and a Kawasaki Ninja. In Talsano (Taranto) one beneficiary of the benefit was the owner of 4 vehicles, two of which were luxury vehicles, another was part of a family unit which, in the last three years, had declared incomes of 324,000, 143,000 and 164,000 euros.
In the province of Caserta a man belonging to a family unit whose members were owners of two businesses with an annual income of about 150,000 euros had asked for support: in the same province another certified that he had no property even though he was the owner of several properties. In Castelfranci (Avellino) a 22-year-old son of a municipal employee made a fictitious change of residence, establishing a separate family unit, while remaining to live in the same house as his mother, owner of a winery. In Avigliano (Potenza) the Carabinieri denounced 5 people, one of whom collected income but ran a dance school. In Campobasso, a 19-year-old presented an application omitting the possession of three properties.
CRIME: in the province of Naples a 41-year-old citizen income earner at the time of the request had failed to report that he was under house arrest with a lot of electronic bracelet: in the same province there are 80 reported, all contiguous to organized crime, managed to obtain 852,515 euros with false declarations. In Bari Palese a pluri-criminal – arrested last month for theft – had asked for and obtained the income despite being subjected to special public security surveillance. In San Pietro Vernotico (Brindisi) an elderly prominent exponent of the Sacra Corona Unita managed to access the subsidy.
UNAVAILABLE: in Campobasso four foreigners have applied for admission to the benefit, falsely declaring that they reside in reception facilities – in the meantime closed – where they had been guests and from where they had left and ended up being canceled from the municipal registry due to “unavailability”. In Canosa di Puglia and Trinitapoli (Barletta) the irregularities that emerged concerned both EU and non-EU foreign citizens who falsely declared that they had resided in Italy for over 10 years, although in reality they have been present for much shorter periods or even already canceled in the registry as they have not been found for years. Others, once the income was obtained, were canceled from the municipal registry because they returned to their country of origin, returning to Italy once a month only to be able to monetize what was unduly received. Finally, numerous cases have been ascertained of subjects who have declared that they are part of families composed of 15-20 people residing in the same house but who are unavailable or non-existent for the registry office.
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