Milano, three Revenue Agency employees are under house arrest

They would have favored some professionals in the Chamber of Commerce sector in exchange for "bribes". A treasury damage of tens of thousands of euros caused by three employees (two men and a woman) of the Revenue Agency of Milano held responsible for corruption for an act contrary to official duties and abuse of office.

Against them the Carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Milano they carried out a Precautionary Custody Order under house arrest, issued by the GIP at the request of prosecutors Laura PEDIO and Giovanni POLIZZI. The investigation was conducted by the Investigative Unit of Milano with the cooperation, in some phases, of the Audit Directorate of the Revenue Agency and originated from some spontaneous declarations collected in January 2017 by two public employees, regarding alleged illicit conduct on the part of some of their colleagues in issuing inspections and certificates bypassing the Agency's internal procedures, thus favoring some professionals in the sector (so-called visurists ) in exchange for utility.

From this perspective, the involvement of 29 "visuristi" reported to the AG as competitors in the illicit activity and of two other employees of the Provincial Land Office was ascertained (including the former Conservative, now retired), at the same time investigated for abuse of office. The investigative activity documented how the public officials investigated, in the monitored period (between February and June 2018), after a telephone contact, furtively met the "surveyors" inside the public complex or in the immediate vicinity of it to give them copies of deeds and mortgage or land registry certificates extracted in violation of the established procedures, allowing the professionals to omit the payment of the prescribed taxes, in exchange for compensation in cash. In other cases, public employees carried out, on behalf of professionals and for compensation, real consultancy activities with the drafting of documents unrelated to their duties, carried out during working hours and using office documentation in clear violation of the rules. of law and regulations.

The daily frequency of illicit transfers of documents and illegitimate extra-professional activities allows us to make, at present, an approximate estimate of the overall fiscal damage of several tens of thousands of euros, with regards to the facts under dispute.