There are 41 people reported by the Guardia di Finanza of Vicenza for aggravated fraud following fictitious hiring and undue INPS benefits and for this reason recipients of the seizure of assets for 277.066,93 euros.
I financiers, with the support of the National Labor Inspectorate and INPS, focused their attention for two years on a construction company that allegedly built a complex fraudulent mechanism based on the fictitious hiring of people residing between Vicenza, Padua, Treviso and Salerno, and then fired them, in such a way as to “artificially” create the conditions for benefiting from unemployment and/or maternity benefits. The fictitious employment relationships continued for the period strictly necessary for the purposes of recognizing the right to social protection tools. It was later discovered that the company had been inactive since 2013. It also emerged that the number of workers hired and the classification reserved for them was absolutely inconsistent with the nature of the company (43 employees hired as “general accounting clerks” and “archival clerks” in the face of a total absence of accounting documentation for the years after 2013).
The results of the investigations into the current accounts registered to both the company and the three creators and promoters of the fraudulent scheme would have revealed the absence of movements attributable to the payment of employees' wages. The three main suspects held the role of de facto administrator, de jure administrator (both from Vicenza) and labor consultant (a man from Salerno). The latter had taken care of the formalization and forwarding of all the fictitious hirings, the owner of the company was in turn an employee, since 2014, of another company from Salerno (also attributable to the same consultant), while the effective administrator had handled the relationships with the majority of the fictitiously hired employees. Furthermore, all three are linked by relationships of cohabitation, kinship and/or acquaintance with some of the recipients of the emoluments received from INPS. The positions of 130 people were then analyzed, of which 41 were characterized by irregular profiles and therefore reported. For these, the judiciary issued a seizure order for 277.066,93 euros.
Article published on 10 October 2020 - 14:28
