(ANSA) - MILAN, DECEMBER 21 - Continued money laundering and abusive activity in 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 made it possible to monetize the citizen's income granted to citizens without the requirements (232 those reported) who paid him the entire credit with payments via pos.
Incambio handed him the cash, withholding 15% on each transaction.
The man would have laundered 213 thousand euros.
The indebtedness to the detriment of the State has been quantified at one million and 100 thousand euros.
The illegal activity allegedly began in October 2020. According to the investigations of the Carabinieri of the Gruppo Tutela Lavoro of Milan, they 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 period of the investigations 'spent' their citizenship income in the shop managed by the 'arrested.
232 also turned out to be "undue earners" and were reported to 7 prosecutors (Milan, Cosenza, Bergamo, Rome, Brescia, Como and Turin) for false certification of possession of the requirements for income payment and for aggravated fraud, the other 12 were reported to the 'Inps for the undue use of the benefit.
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