(ANSA) - Rome, April 8 - Wasteful use of public money and fraud cost the State 4.1 billion euros in 2014, Italy's finance police force (GDF) said Wednesday in its annual report.
It said that 44 people were arrested and 933 others reported to prosecutors in relation to these offences. The finance police said it ran checks on 220 public contracts last year with a combined value of 4.6 billion euros.
Public waste, fraud cost 4.1 bn in 2014 - finance police
One in three of public contracts illegally assigned