Almost 60 thousand invisible men and women forced to work without a contract or with irregular agreements: these are the illegal workers discovered by the Guardia di Finanza in 17 months of activity, from 1 January 2023 to 31 May this year. The investigations of the Fiamme Gialle, as emerges from the operational budget, have in fact made it possible to identify 59,539 irregular workers, 32% more than the 45,041 discovered in the similar previous period.
In terms of fraud, the Guardia di Finanza has ascertained almost two billion in frauds on funds that were intended to support families and businesses. The data also shows a damage to the treasury amounting to around 3 billion euros, with 19,674 investigations on the subject of public spending which led to the reporting of over 31 thousand people and the reporting to the Court of Auditors of 6,345 people responsible for the shortfalls in the state coffers.
The seizures of assets profiting from tax evasion have almost doubled: in 17 months they were carried out for a total value of 8.3 billion, three and a half billion more than the 4.8 recovered in the same previous period.
In the fight against the clans, assets worth 3.6 billion and attributable to organized crime were seized. Assets confiscated or subjected to judicial administration. In terms of the fight against money laundering, financiers discovered illicit operations worth 6.8 billion and reported 5,316 people, of which 461 were arrested, while the fight against new electronic frauds made it possible to seize assets worth 92 million euros. 75 million is the equivalent value in euros of the seized cryptocurrencies, with the Finance Department having discovered the first Italian ‘mining farm’, a structure made up of hardware and software capable of minting new virtual currencies.
The numbers regarding the fight against counterfeiting and the protection of Made in Italy are also important: over 800 million fake products and over 22 thousand tons of agri-food products have been seized.
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