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. 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.
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