Over 26 thousand interventions, approximately 2,200 investigations against economic-financial crimes and criminal infiltration into the economy: a "wide-ranging" commitment to protect families and businesses that of the Guardia di Finanza in Sardinia in 2024 and in the first half of 2025.

The data emerged on the occasion of the 251st anniversary of the Fiamme Gialle, celebrated in the “Efisio Satta” barracks in Cagliari during a ceremony presided over by the regional commander, Brigadier General Claudio Bolognese, accompanied by the provincial commander of Cagliari, Brigadier General Alfredo Falchetti.

Tax evasion

In tax matters, inspection activities have allowed the identification of 279 total tax evaders and 868 “black” or irregular workers. Furthermore, 6 cases of international tax evasion were discovered, “mainly attributable to hidden permanent establishments, transfer pricing manipulations, fictitious tax residences and the illicit holding of capital abroad, with a taxable base subtracted from taxation for almost 16 million euros”.

Those reported for tax crimes are 216, four arrests, in operations that have allowed to report over 90 million non-existent to the Tax Office.

The anti-smuggling activities led to the reporting of 24 people.

Protection of public spending

The activity on the protection of public spending was also important, with a particular focus on the management of the PNRR funds. 405 checks were carried out to verify the entitlement of citizens and businesses to tax credits, contributions and financing, as well as the correct execution of works and services subject to public contracts, for 82.3 million euros: 113 interventions were found for which irregularities emerged, for a total amount of approximately 19 million euros. Great attention was also paid to the protection of other resources of the European Union, including the aid provided for by the Common Agricultural Policy and the Common Fisheries Policy: the Corps' departments conducted 34 interventions, ascertaining fraud for over one million euros for a total of 15 reports. On the national public spending front, in the same period, 1,155 interventions were carried out, of which 634 on the subject of citizen income and new inclusion and support measures for training and work.

607 investigations were also carried out on public spending and 500 individuals were reported and 160 responsible parties were reported to the Court of Auditors, with the ascertainment of damages to the public treasury for more than 376 million euros. In terms of contracts, assignment procedures and methods of execution of works were monitored, which allowed irregular assignments for approximately 15 million euros to be identified and 31 individuals to be reported to the judicial authorities, 4 of whom were arrested.

The fight against corruption has led to the denunciation of 58 people, for a total value of 9.2 million euros and to the advancement of seizure proposals for 3.7 million euros.

Organized crime

In the area of money laundering and self-laundering, including through the investigation of suspicious financial flows generated by operators of the anti-money laundering prevention system, 26 interventions were carried out, which allowed the identification of laundered sums of 17.5 million euros, the reporting of 48 people, two of whom were arrested, as well as the seizure and confiscation of assets for a value of 3.3 million euros. The Corps' action - to protect savers - aimed at identifying all forms of banking and financial abuse, carried out mainly through telematic channels and increasingly innovative digital tools, continued with the reporting of 21 individuals.

At land, sea and air borders, 1,240 checks were carried out to verify compliance with the rules on cross-border circulation of currency by subjects entering or leaving the regional territory, resulting in cash worth 7.2 million euros and 13 violations found.

In the area of bankruptcy crimes and the corporate crisis code, seizure proposals were put forward and confiscations were carried out for over 41 million euros out of a total of misappropriated assets of approximately 70 million euros, while 123 individuals were reported, 2 of whom were arrested.

In application of the discipline of administrative liability of entities, 47 investigations were carried out in which 73 legal entities were reported, with the execution of seizures for 7.3 million euros.

Following the Russian-Ukrainian crisis and the resulting military escalation, the Corps, as a member of the Financial Security Committee, continued its economic and patrimonial investigations on individuals and entities listed in the restrictive measures issued by the European Union.

Overall, since 2022, freezing measures have been carried out against 10 entities, concerning buildings, vehicles, boats, land and company shares for a total value of 750 million euros.

In application of the anti-mafia legislation, 347 subjects were subjected to asset investigations concluded with the application of confiscation measures for over 1.8 million euros. The value of movable and immovable assets, companies, company shares and financial resources proposed to the Judicial Authority for the application of the measures amounts to 5.1 million euros.

Amazing

Significant results were achieved in the fight against drug trafficking thanks to the close collaboration between the air component and territorial departments and the presence of ports and airports. In particular, twenty tons of marijuana inflorescences and 18,000 cannabis plants were seized, over two quintals and thirty kilograms of cocaine and heroin, reporting 206 individuals to the judicial authorities, 47 of whom were under arrest, and reporting 649 people to the Prefects.

(Online Union)

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