They arrived at Brescia with the certainty of having bought it driving license. A scandal that exploded when the agents of the Traffic Police and the Provincial Police of the Lombardy capital and the soldiers of the Economic-Financial Police Unit implemented precautionary measures against four people, investigated for having set up a criminal association aimed at obtain type B driving licenses and driver qualification cards for professional driving of heavy goods vehicles for others.
The investigation, during which the Financial Police carried out targeted economic and financial investigations against the owner of four driving schools with the seizure of over 1 million eurosmade it possible to charge a suspect and his supporters with the crime of criminal association, corruption, incitement to corruption and numerous forgery of public documents.
The special crime of taking driving tests through suggestion systems was also contested, as well as allegations of extortion on candidates. Identified, among the first cases in Italy, the so-called “telephone operator“, remote prompter for exams. Connected with the candidates via headset, he suggested the correct answers in real time from Naples.
I’m more than 60 the people involved in the investigation. Further investigative investigations are underway, with investigators analyzing more 2,000 licenses (type ABCC.QC) achieved in the Brescia area by subjects coming from the entire national territory. Searches are also underway, also conducted with the technical-operational support of the Central Organized Crime Investigation Service with the use of modern technological instruments and two “cash dog” canine units of the Financial Police to search for cash.
