Community funds, in Italy 6 contributions out of 10 are requested (and obtained) illegally. The photograph is from the Senate Impact Assessment Office, which made use of data from the Guardia di Finanza.
There are 77 billion euros for Italy in the EU budget for the period 2014-2020, contributions available to our country through structural and investment funds. In detail: 46,5 for cohesion policies and 31 for the common agricultural policy. However, this important driving force for growth risks being weakened by the many scams, embezzlements, frauds and other offenses carried out by sly people, scammers and organized crime.
According to the Guardia di Finanza - which carried out almost 2014 checks between 2016 and 13 - in 6 out of 10 cases contributions are requested or obtained fraudulently. And the percentage rises again for the CAP (common agricultural policy): 64%. The peak of irregularities is in the South, where 85% of fraud on structural funds and direct EU expenditure is concentrated. On the other hand, the Center has the record of offenses for agriculture and fishing: almost half of the cases.
In particular, as regards the common agricultural policy, against a controlled flow of 1.188.677.301 euros, a good 735.690.609 euros were unduly requested/received in the two-year period
2014-2016 (therefore over 61%) and for the structural funds, again in the same period, 751.108.120 euros were unduly requested/received against a flow of 1.265.209.578 euros (therefore equal to over 59% ), according to an elaboration by the Guardia di Finanza. Which again between 2014 and 2016 performed 12.838 interventions, controlling approximately 2,4 billion contributions. The amount of irregularities amounted to almost 1,5 billion, over 60% of the funds.
As many as 5521 people were reported for aggravated fraud, embezzlement and misappropriation of European resources. There were 71 arrests. Sequestration proposals were made for 587,4 million euros and real precautionary measures were carried out for 196,2 million.
The "tricks" used to unduly obtain European contributions range from the indication of "suspicious" or blockheads to the presentation of false surety policies, from the request for disproportionate funding compared to the applicant's potential to the false declaration of a particular crop, up to unduly obtaining payment entitlements.
Many funds have been recovered, but much remains to be done. For example, for 2016 alone there are still over 51 million to be recovered, in addition to the previous 25 for 2015, and 21 for 2014 and so on over the years, all still not recovered.
They are recently finding fraud in the financing done to the TVs. It is most likely a matter of fraud against the State coming from the FUS, from excise duties, but for now it is only defined as fraud against the State. Excise taxes have been used to finance people who make shows without spectators as spectators have been replaced by television cameras and become non-paying spectators. Yesterday, the TV owners investigated, but other important TVs only reported services against tight controls by the finances, not to mention the fraud of small TVs. It seems that there is Salvini against DiMaio with Salvini in control of the police and DiMaio in control of finance but Salvini could not control the police because he is a politician and politics and police are two separate tools. The accounts still don't add up. Who is good give the correct answer.