Dozens of checks in as many supermarkets, the main and largest in Cagliari and the hinterland, with the acquisition of all the documents useful to verify the process followed by the goods: from the place of production and departure to the final destination, so as to reconstruct step step by step the possible increase of the price.

The Guardia di Finanza delivered to the Prosecutor the first report of its investigative activity on the increase in the costs of fuel and food, primarily pasta, oil and bread. Investigations that failed to prove the existence of an illegal and preordained maneuver. A second information is awaited, then the Prosecutor will decide how to proceed.

The investigation and the crimes

The investigation was opened last March after the statements by the Minister of Ecological Transition Roberto Cingolani, who had defined a "colossal scam at the expense of businesses and citizens" the surge in the cost of petrol and diesel, and the simultaneous explosion of pasta prices in Cagliari (in those days for the indicators the Sardinian capital was the most expensive city nationwide). Fraudulent rise and fall of prices on the public market, speculative maneuvers on goods: these are the two offenses.

Difficulties

Not an easy job for the military. For foodstuffs there is no certain reference parameter on which to calculate the differences between the prices of the various sales centers and evaluate their possible incongruity, also having to consider that the next step would be to understand whose responsibility is: of the owner of the individual business, or someone who comes first in the distribution chain?

Ditto for petrol and diesel, because the price is set by the large companies and therefore the entire journey of the product should be reconstructed: the journey (perhaps longer due to the conflict), with which ship and what refining costs.

(Unioneonline)

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