The ill-gotten will have to be returned: the confiscations will be more severe and will extend to the heirs. For those who take bribes the penalties will be harsher and the minimum for corruption will go from 4 to 6 years. The statute of limitations will also become longer: by two years.
This is the gist of the new anti-corruption regulations approved yesterday evening by the Council of Ministers with which the Government wants to change pace and exacerbate the fight against malfeasance. "Ours - said Prime Minister Matteo Renzi - will be a fight without respite against corruption and we are ready to put our trust in Parliament" so that the new rules become law as soon as possible. But it is essential, he added, that "trials take place as soon as possible and that sentences arrive as quickly as possible" "because otherwise there is momentary indignation but then there is no clarity as to who is guilty".
Among the anti-corruption measures approved by the Council of Ministers “the confiscation will also concern the heirs. If someone has stolen and this is confirmed, the heirs will be co-responsible in the patrimonial sense of the term”. “The attack on assets, as in the fight against the mafia, is the real keystone. Subtracting the loot – added Renzi – is more frightening than detention and gives back to society what was taken from it”.
Furthermore, the minimum penalty for corruption will go from 4 to 6 years and the maximum from 8 to 10 years and consequently the statute of limitations will increase by two years.
