Italy is the country with the most cases of fraud with European funds. 80% of the investigations opened from Brussels affect the largest recipient of the funds created for post-pandemic recovery.
Italian police announced this Thursday that they had completed an operation against fraud related to the collection of European funds and distribution schemes in the country. The intervention resulted in the arrest of 22 people and the seizure of assets, such as mansions and luxury watches, worth more than 600 million euros. It was, without a doubt, the largest operation of this type since Brussels began to distribute recovery funds.