Italian police on Tuesday cited 15
businessmen and other linked to organized crime in a huge
COVID-19 mafia funding fraud based in the northern city of
Monza.
The suspected mafia-linked gang managed to unduly get its hands
on large amounts of funds earmarked for COVID aid, police said.
The 15, all living in the Brianza area north of Milan, were
reported by the Monza tax police for unduly receiving the virus
emergency aid funds.
Among them, two were reported for unduly obtaining and using
guaranteed bank loans.
One of them obtained the funds as legal representative of a
business subject to an anti-mafia interdiction order and despite
the presence, in the family of a majority partner, of a person
convicted for mafia-type criminal association.
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