A fraud against INPS. Through a corruption mechanism rooted in the Navy. And which today sees 20 people under investigation in Rome. Including Marshal Francesco Restivo. That is, the person in charge of managing the pension practices of the armed forces. There are 15 soldiers against whom the capital’s preliminary investigation judge ordered the seizure of 649 thousand euros. Of which 550 thousand as profit from the scam and almost one hundred thousand as the price of corruption. Restivo had the title of first head of the Pension Determinations unit of the IV Pension Treatment Department. And he therefore had the access credentials to the INPS IT platforms for uploading the certified amounts for the Tfs (the severance pay of state workers) and the pension.
And he explains today The messenger, “directly or through third-party collaborators who acted on his instructions – he illegally entered the IT platforms, increasing the amounts of salaries, special allowances, other items of the TFS and pensions” of at least 17 colleagues, as we read in the seizure decree. The price of the bribe was 15 thousand euros. The “customers” were close to leaving. And they wanted to increase the annuity. Restivo «systematically prepared false documents, capable of misleading the INPS offices, which consequently paid sums not due or increased to the military beneficiaries of the Navy in service or not, who, in turn, paid illicit benefits to the public official”. Making the taxable amount appear different from the real one. Sometimes with tricks like turning lira payments into euro payments. To impact pension treatment and severance pay.
