Fraud against Agea: inflated contracts for software licenses – Quotidiano.net

Rome, June 5, 2015 – The financiers of the core special public spending and combating fraud in the Community have executed the seizure of real estate and financial assets for 1.5 million euro to the legal representatives and procurators of the company that sold SIN SpA, controlled by the Agency for Agricultural Payments (Ag.EA), software licenses required for the operation of the national agricultural information system (SIAN) .

The platform manages the reporting of Community aid in the agricultural sector, which amounted to about 7 billion euro a year. Five people, including legal representatives and managers of the company, have been reported for the crime of aggravated fraud against the State in competition with each other.

The core has determined that the head of the subsidiary SIN spa, in breach of the procurement rules and transparency of public administration, have a direct award contract for the acquisition of these licenses . It turned out that the operation has been thought out so as to interpose between the seller and buyer finals, two more companies which have licenses rifatturato applying profit margins so that the price actually paid by AGEA for the purchase of goods , it has risen by as much 843,000 euro.

With reference to the higher costs incurred by AGEA, then by the state, the further investigations carried out, through banking inquiries and technical, they have allowed to ascertain that the legal representative of a company interposed downgraded, in the immediacy of the conclusion of the contract, 370,000 euro to a manager of the selling company. The transfer was apparently justified by the signing of a preliminary contract of sale real estate, which provided a deposit of the same amount. Surveys have allowed to verify the non-signing of the final contract.

It was 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 from the entire operation.