Agea, inflated contracts to purchase software licenses: reported – RomaToday

Guardia di Finanza has performed seizure “of real estate and financial assets for 1.5 million legal representatives and procurators of the companies sold to SIN SpA, controlled by ‘ Agency for Agricultural Payments ( Ag.EA) , the software licenses required for the operation of the national agricultural information system, a platform that manages the reporting of EU aid in the agricultural sector, amounting to about 7 billion a year “. Five people were charged with aggravated fraud against the State.

The survey of the Special government spending and repression Community fraud, coordinated by the deputy prosecutor of Rome, Nello Rossi and pm Alberto Pioletti , is satisfied that the leaders of SIN spa , in breach of the procurement rules and transparency of the PA, have contracted “a direct contribution to the acquisition of these licenses.”

between seller and buyer, however, end there were two additional companies that rifatturato licenses : “in this way, the price actually paid by Agea, for the purchase of the property, is unleavened 843mila euro . The subsequent identification of bank carried by men of the Guardia di Finanza to ascertain the higher costs incurred by Agea, then state , it has been established that one of the representatives of one of the companies interposed between seller and purchaser paid 370,000 to one of the managers of the seller “.

The transfer was apparently justified “through the signing of a preliminary contract of sale real estate, which provided a deposit of the same amount.” But surveys have shown that there has never been the signing of a final contract.

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At the end of the activity were “reported five subjects, including legal representatives and managers now, for the crime of aggravated fraud against the State in competition with each other. ” It was also found that “the legal representative of one of the companies intermediaries failed to indicate, in the statements for the years 2011 and 2012, income of 1.8 million euro . The total seizure undertaken equivalent to the profit generated by the entire operation. ” It ‘as it announced by the Guardia di Finanza.