‘Anomalous’ questions during the 2023 click day also in the province of Caserta. This emerges from the data of the Interior Ministry which has registered over 17 thousand requests from Terra di Lavoro for the entry of foreign workers for subordinate employment purposes.
Over 17 thousand questions from the province of Caserta
In total, in 2023, there were 252 thousand applications, of which 109 thousand from Campania (according to Lazio with around 20 thousand). At provincial level the most relevant numbers concern Naples (68,034), Salerno (19,837), Caserta (17,828), Rome (10,473). Among the northern provinces, Verona (9,947) and Milan (6,905) stand out. In reference to the typology, the applications for seasonal work, throughout the national territory, amount to 151,502, of which only 303 for multi-year seasonal workers: in particular, the provinces that have received the most applications for this type are Naples (40,513), Salerno (14,056 ) and Caserta (12,993). The applications for non-seasonal subordinate work are 96,215 and mainly concern the provinces of Naples (27,488), Rome (7,451) and Milan (6,068).
Prime Minister Meloni’s complaint
The Naples Prosecutor’s Office has turned the spotlight on the Campanian migrant city after a complaint presented by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to the National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor Giovanni Melillo. “Organized crime has infiltrated the management of applications and the ‘flow decrees’ have been used as a mechanism to allow access to Italy, through a formally legal and risk-free route, to people who would not have been entitled to it, probably behind payment of sums of money, according to some sources, up to 15,000 euros per ‘practice'”.
“The hypothesis of criminal infiltration – underlined the Prime Minister – seems supported by the fact that the vast majority of foreigners who entered Italy in recent years using the ‘Flux Decree’ come from a single state, Bangladesh, where the diplomatic authorities they talk about phenomena of buying and selling visas for work reasons”.
The prosecutor’s investigation
From the first findings carried out by the Naples Prosecutor’s Office, around 80 practices have come under scrutiny with around twenty suspects, all in the Vesuvian area. The investigative line would focus for now on the entry of immigrants from Bangladesh. The chain of illegality would involve compliant companies but also intermediaries, lawyers, consultants from tax assistance centres, engaged in various capacities in practices to pretend that migrants arrived in Italy with the security of a job.
