Taranto: they falsified the applications for emergence, two people arrested

Taranto: they falsified the applications for emergence, two people arrested. 

Following a complex and detailed investigation, coordinated by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Taranto, in the early hours of the morning of 3 July, the Police of State proceeded to execute one precautionary measure of house arrest against two people.

A of them is considered presumed responsible, in conjunction with the crimes of embezzlement, aiding and abetting aggravated by the illegal stay of irregular foreign citizens in the Taranto area, forgery in a public document committed by PU, ideological forgery committed by a private individual in a public document and attempted fraud in competition to obtain public funds. The other is held presumed responsible for the crime of embezzlement in conjunction with the first. The measure also provides the prohibition on communicating with strangers.

Le investigations are resulting from some checks, carried out by the Immigration Office of the Taranto Police Headquarters regarding requests for regularization of citizens foreign, present in the area, aimed at avert possible abuses of the institution of emergence, also through checks on employers. Attention she focused on a group of instances that seemed to have a single direction.

Indeed, in this group of requests appeared the incorrect indication of the nationality of the workers (“National Republic of China China” rather than “People's Republic of China”). Furthermore, in the almost all of the instances, the alleged ones employers they appeared to have an advanced age or a psychophysical deficit of various kinds.

More precisely all employers, who had presented requests to emerge from illegal work for the year 2020, turned out to be pepersons subjected to the institute of support administration in charge of one of the two suspects, appointed by the Tutelary Judge of the Civil Court of Taranto.

In accordance to rebuilt by the Flying Squad, under the wise direction of the local Public Prosecutor's Office, the modus operandi would have consisted of creation of false practices of emergence with appropriation, sometimes, of sums of money of the administered subjects.

Il second alleged perpetrator, as the legal representative of a caregiver agency, would have received unduly and in several tranches in his personal current account a huge amount, distracted by the current accounts of its administrators.

They also appear 14 Chinese citizens are under investigation since the same, in collaboration with unidentified third parties and with the suspect as support administrator of the "employer", were indicated in the practices for the emergence of irregular work as fake carers in order to obtain the residence permit and/or payments by the State.

In the ordinance, the GIP of Taranto, accepting the investigative findings of the Public Prosecutor, underlined how i two suspects, in conducting criminal activities, have demonstrated a chameleon-like ability to conceal his criminal intentions, hiding behind the guise of subjects dedicated to activities characterized almost exclusively by a philanthropic spirit and disinterested altruism.

It was also willing and preventive seizure was carried out pursuant to Article 321 of the Code of Criminal Procedure aimed at the direct confiscation, also by equivalent, of the total sum of Euro 10.030,00 for the support administrator and €14.355,77 for both suspects.