The Fiamme Gialle checks continue to verify the regular receipt of the "Citizenship Income". The investigation contexts, rather diversified, involved all the departments of the Corps located in the province of Vicenza.
For many foreign citizens, the cause of the illegitimate use of the benefit is due to the lack of the residency requirement, taking into account that the law provides that the applicant for the subsidy must have been resident in Italy for at least 10 years, of which 2 continuously. In several cases, in fact, the Departments have made it possible to ascertain that the beneficiaries of the contribution have often self-declared, when transmitting the application for collection, the aforementioned requirement without, however, having obtained habitual residence in the State for the entire requested period.
In other cases, the applicants have failed to communicate to INPS the start of work within the 30 days required or have provided false declarations relating to the composition of the family unit or have failed to indicate the income from work received and not recorded for the entire year in the ISEE.
Among the recipients of the support measure, subjects without the so-called "honourability" requirement, provided for by Legislative Decree no., were also discovered. 4/2019. The in-depth investigations, also carried out through specific operational risk analyses, made it possible to detect the failure of the applicants to communicate, in the relevant forms, their own detention status and/or that of a member of the family unit.
Specifically, in a first case the applicant (resident of Schio) was found to have been subjected (at different times) to both precautionary custody in prison and house arrest. From further investigations, it was ascertained that a member of the relative family unit (the mother) had also submitted two other RdC applications, failing to indicate, respectively, the subsequent state of detention of the family member, as well as the definitive conviction of the latter. last for the crime of robbery.
In the second case under investigation, the applicant (still resident in Schio and already subjected in the past to both precautionary custody in prison and house arrest) signed the application for access to support when he was the recipient of an obligation to sign before the Police Judicial. Furthermore, the same income recipient was found to have been definitively convicted of various crimes such as receiving stolen goods, resisting a public official and association aimed at the illicit trafficking of narcotic substances.
In a further case, a citizen of Zanè, in addition to being subjected (at different times) to both precautionary custody in prison and house arrest, had failed to declare in the ISEE form attached to the request for provision of the economic benefit in question , to have collected, in the period from 2017 to 2023, winnings from games and bets for a considerable amount.
Finally, the investigations conducted against a non-EU citizen residing in Vicenza made it possible to verify that the same, at the time of submitting the RdC application, had not taken steps to declare the performance of his own work activity and that of a member of the family unit, from which income from work was derived which was not recorded for the entire year in the ISEE, as well as having failed to indicate the possession of motor vehicles registered in his name. Furthermore, during the period of receipt of the benefit, he had not communicated the change relating to his own work activity and that of a member of the family unit, which occurred following new hires.
The Fiamme Gialle Beriche, valorising specific info-investigative activities in the sector of public spending, also realized through the use of modern investigative tools, dedicated databases, as well as through close synergy with some Municipal Administrations, and under the coordination of the local Public Prosecutor's Office Repubblica have ascertained overall undue receipts for approximately €450.000,00 and blocked requests for a further 130.000 euros.
More specifically, the Vicenza Financial Police, in the current year, has carried out dozens of interventions throughout the province, discovering 50 irregular cases (around 80% of the positions examined), identifying illegal/irregular workers present in families receiving "RdC", reporting 48 managers to the AG, as well as ascertaining contributions unduly received for €450.000,00 and contributions unduly requested and not yet collected (of which, therefore, the disbursement has been blocked) for further €. 130.000,00.
The undue recipients of the subsidy were reported to the competent Judicial Authority and, at the same time, they were reported to the INPS Provincial Directorate for the initiation of the procedure for revocation/forfeiture of the benefit and restitution of the sums unduly received.
The protection of legality and the constant supervision of the correct use of public resources will continue through further and targeted controls with the aim of ensuring that the benefits granted by the State are intended for the economic support of subjects who are actually entitled to them, with the aim of contributing to the reintegration of the weakest groups into the world of work.
It is represented that, with reference to the criminally relevant hypotheses, the report was carried out on the initiative of the judicial police in the preliminary investigation phase and that, due to the principle of the presumption of innocence, the guilt of the persons subjected to investigation will be definitively ascertained only where irrevocable sentence of conviction.
