Yesterday morning, the Carabinieri of the Torre Annunziata Group executed a preventive seizure decree issued by the GIP of the Court of Torre Annunziata, at the request of this Public Prosecutor’s Officeagainst 7 people under investigation, for various reasons, in relation to the crimes of aggravated fraud for the undue obtaining of public funds and failure to communicate changes in information due and relevant for the purposes of the revocation or reduction of the “citizen’s income”.
The investigations, conducted by the Investigative Unit of the Carabinieri of Torre Annunziata and coordinated by this Public Prosecutor’s Office, made it possible to reveal that the suspects, all linked by family ties to members of various local criminal gangs, would have unduly received the benefit of the “citizen’s income” in the period between the months of January 2021 and September 2022, for an amount total amount of approximately 16,000 euros. Specifically, it emerged that they, in the application to access the benefit or even after its submission, failed to communicate to INPS that they or a cohabiting family member were subjected to a personal precautionary measure and, in one case, the conviction of one of them, with a final sentence, for crimes of an association type, thus misleading the granting body and unduly receiving, for the period covered by the investigations, sums of money not owed or in an amount greater than that due.
During the execution of the royal precautionary measure they were subjected to seizure: 7 cards for “citizen’s income”, 9 financial reports and an insurance policy, the contents of which are being verified by the respective credit institutions and bodies as well as the total sum of approximately 500 euros in cash.
