Three false identities, three fake citizenship incomes and nine thousand euros spent in a pastry shop. M. B., 59 years old, had turned the public subsidy into a loyalty card for cassate, cakes, and gift boxes made of icing and candied fruit. Too bad that, according to investigators, behind those three invented names it was always him.
And the sweets? He wouldn’t have eaten them. Too many even for the most stubborn sweet tooth. They would have ended up instead on the desks of lawyers, accountants, and other professionals with whom the fifty-nine-year-old maintained friendships and business relationships. Kind thoughts, in short. At the expense of the State. The alleged three-card (identity) game was discovered by the officers of the Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza, led by Colonel Eugenio Bua. The investigation, coordinated by the Prosecutor’s Office, started from some anomalies that emerged by cross-checking the available data on the recipients of the Income.
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The Guardia di Finanza “identified – it is explained in the reports – the three cards on which the benefits were credited” and reconstructed “the financial movements.” The money then indicated the most… fragrant path: the one that led straight to a well-known pastry shop in the area. Twenty-two payments, for a total exceeding nine thousand euros. A financial binge more than a food one, since cassate, cakes, and other products would have been purchased to make gifts for birthdays, anniversaries, and various celebrations. The three cards, registered to different people, were used with some ease in the same commercial establishment even though they were always presented by the same person. According to the accusation, M. B. would have created three non-existent identities, obtaining as many identity cards to use to submit applications and collect benefits. Three ghost citizens, three real subsidies. Different names, distinct documents, one hand at the checkout. M. B. is a name already known to law enforcement and is reportedly related to a powerful ’ndrina active in the Vibonese. The Prosecutor’s Office of Vibo Valentia requested the blocking of the sums pocketed without entitlement. The Court ordered a preventive seizure exceeding 12,500 euros, executed on movable and immovable assets attributable to the suspect. After the trays, therefore, came the seals.
The case enters a Calabrian accounting already crowded with cheaters and fraudsters. In May 2020, the “Mala Civitas” operation by the Guardia di Finanza of Reggio Calabria led to the denunciation of 101 bosses and henchmen who had collected the citizenship income. INPS started recovering about 516 thousand euros and the checks prevented the disbursement of another 470 thousand. A few months later, “Jobless Money 2” revealed fifty recipients lacking the requirements between Rosarno and Gioia Tauro. The Carabinieri checked 1,500 positions, encountering convicts for mafia and relatives of members of the Bellocco-Pesce clan. In Crotone, in February 2021, the Guardia di Finanza reported another fourteen people. The count of contested subsidies exceeded one hundred thousand euros. In Vibonese, this time, the alleged trick had a sweeter taste: invent three people, collect three incomes, and convert a slice of public money into gifts for lawyers, accountants, and acquaintances. A carefully crafted system. Then the Guardia di Finanza followed the crumbs, like Tom Thumb. And discovered the rot.
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