Carabinieri police searched
the offices of pensions and social security agency INPS in Rome
and in Italy's regional capitals to seize documents in relation
to a probe into alleged fake labour contracts, ANSA sources said
on Friday.
The probe is part of a larger investigation that has
already put 44 entrepreneurs and professionals in pre-charge
detention and brought seizures of more than 137 million euros'
worth of assets connected to non-existent companies that were
allegedly set up with thousands of falsified employee records in
order to accrue INPS benefits such as unemployment, maternity
and sick leave.
Prosecutor Giovanni Izzo of Nocera Inferiore in the
province of Salerno said Friday's investigative operations have
"ascertained certain incongruencies in the internal auditing
system of INPS".
Izzo said these incongruencies included "inserting into the
database false data regarding completed inspections and
regarding the number of jobs annulled, upon which were based the
checks regarding whether annual goals pre-assigned by the
Directorate-General were reached", as well as "unwarranted
disbursement of incentive bonuses linked to productivity goals
to INPS managers and workers".
Izzo said that for just the period 2012-2013 the
comprehensive financial estimate related to this activity is
around 361 million euros.
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