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The investigations were carried out together with the Carabinieri of the Milan Porta Genova station

Milan, May 22 2021 - Provided false certifications of transfer of ownership of vehicles that were never registered, illegally authenticating the sales deeds and misappropriating the sums paid by citizens. For these reasons, last 27 April the Carabinieri of the Milan Porta Genova station and the local police officers notified SA, an Italian born in 1969, of the notice of conclusion of the preliminary investigations issued by the Deputy Public Prosecutor at the Milan Prosecutor's Office Piero Basilone .

There are a total of 280 charges against the man, to the detriment of citizens and entities, for the crimes of embezzlement, usurpation of public functions, fraud, abusive use of seals and various instruments, ideological falsehood committed by a public official in acts public documents, material falsehood committed by a public official in public documents and ideological falsehood committed by a public official in certificates or administrative authorizations.

The investigations, resulting from complaints presented by citizens to various police bodies in Milan and Brianza, were started in 2017 by the Milan Porta Genova Carabinieri Station and by the Judicial Police officers of the Sanction Procedures Area of ​​the local police initially separately and then brought together in a single proceeding, which made it possible to ascertain that the crimes were committed starting from at least 2014 and up to 2019.

As a public official, a quality which aggravated his position and which also allowed him to proceed ex officio, SA provided false certifications (self-adhesive coupon to be affixed to the vehicle registration document), obtained by forcing the IT system of the Civil Motorization and certifying transfers of ownership of vehicles never actually carried out, thus misappropriating the sum paid by customers both for agency services and for the amounts intended for public bodies as taxes and emoluments.

Furthermore, despite having been suspended several times since 2017 from his qualifications at the Motorist Telematic Help Desk (STA), which were definitively revoked in 2018, the man had maintained the availability of the seals, which he used illegally to authenticate the sales deeds and derive an unfair advantage from them. profit by tricking users into believing they can still transfer ownership of vehicles at his agency. Then came the definitive revocation of the operation of the automotive consultancy company in 2019, which has now been permanently closed.

The citizens' complaints, which made it possible to identify with certainty 162 illegal conducts, following which SA misappropriated at least 64.000 ascertained euros (it is plausible that the sum is much higher, considering that many payments for transfers of ownership never occurred in cash), arose from the fact that, despite having sold their vehicle, they continued to receive fines and tax bills for not having paid the stamp duty. Furthermore, there were suspiciously high requests for the archiving of minutes presented with attached sales deeds authenticated by SA

“Thanks to our agents and the Carabinieri for carrying out this investigation with perseverance - comment the Deputy Mayor and Security Councilor Anna Scavuzzo and the Local Police Commander Marco Ciacci - which made it possible to bring to light a conduct that caused inestimable damage not only to citizens, but also to various police bodies, which have notified hundreds of empty reports, and to the institutions, from the metropolitan city to the state, passing through the municipalities, which have not collected the taxes due nor recovered, in many cases , the amount of fines under the Highway Code”.