In 2016, irregular public procurement contracts amounting to 3,4 billion euros were discovered in Italy, with 1.866 perpetrators reporting, 140 of whom arrested. These are some of the numbers presented today in its annual report by the Guardia di Finanza which carried out around one million operations in 2016.
Two thousand cases of VAT fraud have been identified, 1.663 of international tax evasion, with the seizure of assets for 781 million euros. As for mafia-type criminality, 281 companies and 2,6 billion euros were seized from the gangs last year.
Nineteen thousand undeclared and irregular workers were discovered and 180 million illegal products seized because they were counterfeit for a value of over 2,4 billion euros.
