Those who have retired are also targeted
After revealing the kidnapping of over 30 million euros charged to the Gedi Group, in the investigation into an alleged scam against INPS, The truth announces that “the Rome Prosecutor’s Office would be ready to withdraw roughly the same amount also to former employees who, according to the investigators, have retired without having the right “. According to the accusatory hypothesis, through a system of demotion and transfers (in some fictitious cases) to companies of the group that benefited from the Cigs, the publishing company would have saved both on huge salaries and on contributions to be paid to its managers. An alleged undue profit which, in fact, exceeds 30 million euros, on which the seizure of recent days was carried out.
The crime of complicity in aggravated fraud is hypothesized
The Guardia di Finanza, according to what is published The truth, it would also be completing the calculations to define the amount of benefits unduly provided by theInps starting from 2012, when the group was headed by Eng. Carlo De Benedetti, today publisher of de Tomorrow, newspaper that has nothing to do with this story. In 2020 De Benedetti sold the group to the Agnelli family, which they still publish today La Repubblica, La Stampa, L’Espresso and the other prestigious newspapers that are part of it. Speaking of pensions that would also amount to 7,000 euros per month, the newspaper directed by Maurizio Belpietro estimates the amount on which the Finance would be interested in making a second forced withdrawal at about 30 million euros, speaking of about 70 former employees entered in the register of suspects for competition in aggravated scam.
“The controls on the Espresso Group? Everything regular”
These people will be heard by the investigators in the next few days and, if they are unable to repay the sums received, the involvement of the Gedi managers and trade unionists who have signed the relevant agreements is assumed, which would be jointly and severally liable towards the state. A hypothesis that would entail a strong expansion of the story, with evident social repercussions. The position of the Inps executives who have endorsed these retirement procedures will probably also need to be clarified (also from the tax point of view). The truth cites the response that the Lazio regional management would have given following the first report of irregularities and subsequent requests for clarification from the competent central management, in which it was stated that the checks carried out on the Espresso Group (at that time it was still called that) had been found to be regular, with no evidence to support this report. Also the dg of the social safety nets of the Ministry of Labour, according to a version that The truth attributes to four Inps executives, it would have anomalies excluded in the six-monthly checks on the publishing group in question.
The hypothesis of a further expansion of the affair
Inps and Inail’s vigilances later merged into thelabor Inspectorate, from which the information to the Prosecutor’s Office would start, which kicked off the investigation currently underway. An investigation that already in 2018 had started with the acquisition of numerous documents in the various offices of the Group, but, observes the journalist Giacomo Amadori, it was not accompanied by “no communication to the press, a completely unusual decision”. Aside from a few brief agency pitches, “the ball was left to Gedi, forced to spread a note being quoted at the stock exchange“. A low media profile that The truth he hypothesizes that it may be connected to similar practices by other newspapers, on which investigations have been initiated in recent years, of which the definitive outcome is not known at the moment.
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