Rome, AGEA: inflated contracts for the purchase of software licenses – Strait Web (press release)
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The financiers of the Special Unit Public Spending and Fraud Repression Communitarian, in execution of an order issued by the examining magistrate at the Court of Rome, Dr. Alessandro Arturi, at the request of the local Prosecutor’s Office, have executed the seizure of real estate and financial assets for 1.5 million euro in the head of the legal representatives and agents of the companies sold to SIN SpA, controlled by the Agency for Agricultural Payments (Ag.EA), the software licenses required for the operation of the National Agricultural Information System (SIAN). This platform manages the reporting of Community aid in the agricultural sector, which amounted to about 7 billion euro a year. The core, as a result of a complex activity delegated by the deputy prosecutor Nello Rossi and Alberto Pioletti Deputy Prosecutor, is satisfied that the leaders of the investee SIN spa, in breach of the procurement rules and transparency in public administration, have contracted a direct assignment for the acquisition of these licenses. Also, 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 good, it soared by well € 843,000. With reference to the higher costs incurred by AGEA, then by the state, the further investigation carried out through the banking inquiries and technical, have allowed to ascertain that the legal representative of a company interposed downgraded, in the immediacy of the conclusion of the contract, € 370,000 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. The investigations have allowed to verify the non-signing of the final contract.
At the end of five subjects were reported, between legal representatives and managers of the companies, for the crime of aggravated fraud against the State in competition between them. It was also established 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.
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