Tax police in
the Calabrian city of Locri on Wednesday said they have
discovered a scam involving 31 agricultural businesses that
allegedly pretended to employ over 1,000 workers between 2012
and 2018 in case of fraud against pensions and social security
agency INPS amounting five million euros.
The legal representatives of the businesses involved have
been charged with aggravated fraud and fraudulent
misrepresentation, together with the allegedly fake farm
laborers some of whom have a police record for mafia
association, investigators said.
The probe was carried out together with INPS inspectors from
Reggio Calabria.
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