Continued money laundering and abusive activity of providing payment services are the charges against a Bengali citizen, owner of an internet point, arrested by the Milan carabinieri.
The man, under house arrest,
would have allowed the citizenship income granted to citizens without the requirements (232 those reported) to be monetized, who paid him the entire credit with payments via pos.
In return, he handed him the cash, keeping 15% on each transaction.
The man would have laundered 213 thousand euros.
The undue perception to the detriment of the State has been quantified at one million and 100 thousand euros.
The illicit activity allegedly began in October 2020.
According to the investigations by the Carabinieri, the beneficiaries were mainly Somali citizens, who received the basic income without being entitled to it.
Compared to the year preceding the establishment of the income, the internet point recorded an increase in transactions with POS of 215,000 euros, i.e. 1,600%, and 244 people in the survey period "spent" their basic income in shop run by the arrested person.
232 were also "undue earners" and were reported to seven different prosecutors (Milan, Cosenza, Bergamo, Rome, Brescia, Como and Turin) for false certification of possession of the requirements for the payment of income and for aggravated fraud.
The other twelve have been reported to the INPS for the
