In the province of Naples, a maxi fraud made it possible to regularize thousands of foreigners through fake applications for hiring during the click day. Climb municipal stamps and identity cards. Hundreds of companies involved, but they were unaware of everything
There is a place, in the heart of the province of Naples, between Palma Campania, Carbonara di Nola and Brusciano, in which the stamps of some municipal administrations had been cloned, such as the signatures of professionals and identity documents. The documentation of the companies also seemed in order. Too bad that the almost 500 agricultural, zootechnical and building companies, 24 the Tuscan ones, who had officially asked to regularize non -EU seasonal workers during the click day (the day in which the portal of the flow decree opens the questions throughout Italy) were in the dark about everything. Thousands of questions had started from the Neapolitan abusive CAF to bring North Africans, Indians and Asians to Italy (willing to pay for a fictitious place as a laborer or laborer), through the ministerial portal. A False workshop, where the flow decree (the tool that should transparently adjust the entry of foreign labor) was emptied, manipulated, abused. A system that now has a name, five faces, and a very heavy folder to the attention of the Livorno prosecutor, who yesterday morning coordinated the execution of five precautionary measures under house arrest
The carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Livorno, with the support of the Inspectorate of Labor and Territorial Companies, carried out the ordinance signed by the investigating judge. The accusations: aggravated aiding and aggravation of illegal immigration, replacement of person and material falsity. The investigation, which started in June 2024, is one of the most complex conducted in recent years on the documentary fraud related to the regularization of foreigners. It all started with a report from the Prefecture of Livorno. An anomaly: too many applications for regularization from local companies, many of which are unsuspected, all concentrated in a few clicks (just as the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had reported a year ago to the head of the National Anti -Mafia Prosecutor Giovanni Melillo). Then, the suspicion: access to the ministerial portal at times and methods incompatible with normal operations. Finally, the investigative intuition. Interceptions, IT monitoring and access to digital registers have begun to bring to a single direction. Following Spid and digital signatures, the five of the illegal CAF jumped out, “with well -defined roles”, the investigators say. They had everything necessary to make what was not seemed true: hires never happened, for unsuspecting employers, companies that formally regulated foreigners without ever having seen them.
During a search, performed in November 2024, coinciding with a click day, the carabinieri blocked an avalanche of fictitious requests. Seized PCs, Hard Disk, Pen Drive, Cell Phones, as well as hundreds of false and digitized identity documents (for a total of 17 Terabyte of data). The numbers of the operation are by maxi fraud: hundreds of companies involved only unconsciously, 24 of which based in the Livorno area, thousands of practices produced in an artifact way, tens of thousands of potential ones, ready to be loaded on the ministerial portal thanks to the excess undue to businesses. In practice, a parallel management system of the flow decree, out of any control.
“Deep and convinced appreciation” was expressed by the Prefect of Livorno, Giancarlo Dionisi, who spoke openly of “an investigative result of absolute importance”. “This investigation,” said the prefect, “is the result of an effective synergy between the prefecture and law enforcement as well as the demonstration of how the constant and qualified garrison of the territory, combined with a preventive vision and the action of administrative intelligence carried out by the Prefecture, constitutes a fundamental tool to intercept insidious phenomena and protect the rights of citizens, honest companies and regular workers”.
The damage? Incalculable. Especially for those who legitimately wait to be hired in Italy. According to the investigative reconstruction, the five suspects, “with roles active in the preparation and loading of questions”, would have built a real chain of illegality: there were specialists in the falsification of documents, IT technicians capable of circumventing the portal filters, “shadow” consultants capable of intercepting unaware entrepreneurs to carper signatures and business data. The idea was to exploit the difficulties of control by the prefectures recipient of the numerous requests received in the periods of the click day. “The group focused on a escapade in the system,” explained the provincial commander of the weapon in Livorno Piercarmine Sica, “since once the expected term has passed, the application passed thanks to the silent assent. At that point it was then possible to request the working visa to get to Italy ».
The area still unexplored of the investigation concerns a master book: during the searches the notes to be interpreted jumped out. No title. Thick pages. Lines that would report baptism names, figures, contacts to contacts. Cryptic annotations alongside acronyms and initial. But above all numbers. Those who serve to understand how much money went to that parallel system. There were references to advances made or sums still to be paid. The official CAF officials, it is the hypothesis of the accusation, would have moved behind compensation.
