The 29-year-old restaurateur born in Feltre and working in the province of Pordenone should have used the loan for employee salaries and rent. Reported by the financial police
FELT. He had obtained a loan of 25 thousand euros on the basis of the Decree of 8 April 2020 – the so-called liquidity decree – to pay employees, as well as face the economic crisis linked to the explosion of the pandemic, but he used almost all of them to play online. So a restaurateur, Ferdinando Criscuolo, 29, a native of Feltre, but who works in the province of Pordenone and lives in Fontanafredda, got into trouble.
To discover the behavior that triggered the man’s complaint for embezzlement against the state was the Finance Police of Pordenone, which carried out the investigations by ordering a preventive seizure of twenty thousand euros against the restaurateur.
The checks on the bank current account made it possible to verify that the loan of 25 thousand euros obtained from a credit institution and fully guaranteed by the State had been used only minimally – just over 4,000 thousand euros – had been used for the permitted purposes (payment of employees’ wages, investments in production activities and payment of the rent of the commercial premises), the remainder was “distracted” in online gaming and betting sites.
The regulatory provision, issued by the Italian government to allow small and medium-sized entrepreneurs to have immediate liquidity to cope with the economic and financial crisis generated by Covid 19, however, provides for the use of funds in well-defined sectors. This was not the case.
Hence the inevitable complaint of the same restaurateur to the Public Prosecutor’s Office for “embezzlement to the detriment of the State” and the consequent request by the public prosecutor to the Judge for preliminary investigations of a preventive seizure order for equivalent, up to the amount “Played” by the entrepreneur. The investigating judge, accepting the request of the public prosecutor, ordered the preventive seizure of twenty thousand euros against the suspect, carried out by the Pordenone Yellow Flames on his assets and financial resources.
In this particular historical moment, the activity of the Guardia di Finanza is mainly aimed at combating illegal and fraudulent conduct and in all cases of undue perception and embezzlement of public resources in order to ensure that State grants are really intended for families and businesses that they really need it.
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