Twenty precautionary measures are carried out by soldiers from the Guardia di Finanza of Cerignola and the Economic and Financial Police Unit of Foggia for an alleged five million euro scam linked to the fictitious hiring of hundreds of fake agricultural workers and their entry into Italy for work reasons .
Eleven suspects ended up in prison, four under house arrest, one was subjected to a residence ban in the province of Foggia and four to measures prohibiting the exercise of entrepreneurial activities.
The suspects reached by precautionary measures are entrepreneurs, professionals and public officials (one in service at the INPS, and another former prefectural official), accused in various capacities of criminal association, aggravated fraud to obtain public funds, aiding and abetting the illegal immigration, embezzlement, money laundering, forgery of public documents, forgery of seals and trafficking in illicit influence.
Five million worth of seizures were carried out.
There are two lines of the investigation coordinated by the Foggia Prosecutor's Office: the first concerns an alleged social security and welfare scam carried out by four 'ghost' companies and relating to the hiring of 647 fake agricultural workers and subsidies (agricultural unemployment, family allowances, sickness and maternity ) unduly received for two million euros;
the second concerns having favored, upon payment of sums of money, the entry into the national territory of non-EU citizens through false recruitment.
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