Fraud and waste in the civil
service cost the State some 5.3 billion euros in 2016, tax
police said in their annual report Thursday. This was more than
1.3 billion euros more than the previous year, the Guardia di
Finanza said. Italy's tax police in 2016 uncovered irregular
public contracts worth some 3.4 billion euros, more than triple
2015's total of one billion. The police seized assets worth some
781 million euros last year, the fruit of tax evasion or VAT
fraud, and assets of 2.6 billion from organised crime.
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