There are 25,850 illegal or irregular workers discovered in Lombardy in just under a year and a half by the Financial Police. During the inspection activities of 2023 and early 2024, the GdF carried out 116 thousand interventions, opening 11 thousand investigations to combat economic-financial crimes and the infiltration of crime into the economy. The yellow flames also identified 1000 subjects completely unknown to the tax authorities: many of them operated through e-commerce platforms. Furthermore, 3,647 people were reported for tax crimes, of which 188 were arrested. Non-existent or high tax risk subsidized tax credits for construction and energy were frozen and reported to the Revenue Agency and assets worth 2.4 million euros deriving from profits from tax evasion and fraud were seized.
In detail, the Gdf in Lombardy also discovered 176 cases of international tax evasion. For projects and investments financed with Pnrr resources, 1,845 interventions were carried out to verify the regularity of tax credits, contributions and financing for citizens or businesses, as well as the correct execution of the works and services subject to public procurement, for 38 million euros. Collaboration with the European Public Prosecutor’s Office in terms of procurement is growing: award procedures and methods of execution of works and services for 160 million euros have been monitored. As for the fight against corruption and crimes against the Public Administration, 31 people were arrested, 273 reported and 32 million euros seized. In the area of money laundering and self-laundering, 226 interventions were carried out, which led to the reporting of 601 people, of which 87 were arrested, and to the reconstruction of illicit operations worth 1.6 billion. Over 7,912 suspicious financial flows were investigated, of which 89 related to terrorist financing. With regards to bankruptcy and business crisis crimes, the assets seized amount to 105 million out of a total of diverted assets of 980 million euros, while for the crimes of usury and extortion 50 subjects were reported with seizures for approximately 3, 5 million euros. Finally, alongside the activity against drug trafficking and clandestine gaming, based on anti-mafia legislation, 1,186 individuals were subjected to asset checks and seizure, confiscation and judicial administration measures were carried out for a value of approximately 500 million.
