Imola, 23 May 2024 – One thousand three hundred entrance tickets invalids intercepted (for a value of 200 thousand euros), over 5,500 unsafe products seized together with another 500 gadgets sold without authorization as well as various drinks in glass and cans. It is the balance of the checks carried out by the Financial Police on the occasion of the Formula 1 Grand Prix which took place in the city last weekend.
In particularexplain the Fiamme Gialle, “a preventive intelligence activity and stringent controls at the access gates to the Autodromo allowed the soldiers of the Imola company, in collaboration with Siae officials, to intercept 1,300 people in possession of non-refundable entry tickets. valid, for a total commercial value of approximately 200 thousand euros”.
In the majority of cases, “these were tickets purchased at a reduced price (under 12 year category) – they reconstruct from the Finance Department –, graphically modified into full-price tickets and then resold online, via secondary ticketing portals, to unsuspecting buyers who, given their age, evidently were not entitled to the reduction”. An ill-advised purchase which turned into a double expense.
To the people In fact, access to the stops was then prevented unless a valid ticket had been purchased. Now, the Fiamme Gialle explain, investigations are underway to “reconstruct the purchasing chain and identify the promoters of the mechanism”
“Activities for the prevention and repression of product safety violations” were also carried out, which according to the Finance report made it possible to seize from a man of Pakistani nationality “more than 5,500 items of various costume jewellery, electronics and stationery, without of the minimum information contents and all other indications relating to the composition and the possible presence of substances harmful to human health”. The seller was reported to the Bologna Chamber of Commerce for violations of the Consumer Code.
In the end, several administrative violations were reported relating to the bans established by Mayor Marco Panieri’s ordinances on the occasion of the Emilia-Romagna and Made in Italy Grand Prix. Among the other bans was that of street trading and glass and can drinks (in addition to the ban on alcohol with more than 5% alcohol content).
Specifically, the unauthorized sale in public areas of almost 500 various gadgets was discovered, as well as the administration of drinks in glass containers and cans for which the mayor had in fact ordered a stop in a large area around the Enzo Autodromo and Dino Ferrari.
