https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Italy's highest court has upheld a ruling to confiscate 49 million euros from Italy's ruling League party, ordered after the far-right movement was convicted of fraud. https://www.thelocal.it/20190807/italys-top-court-upholds-order-to-seize-49-million-from-league-party Wed, 07 Aug 2019 17:15:35 +0200 italys-top-court-upholds-order-to-seize-49-million-from-league-party An Italian man who allegedly posed as Hollywood superstar George Clooney to sell clothes online has been arrested with his wife in Thailand after years on the run, police said Sunday. https://www.thelocal.it/20190617/italian-george-clooney-imposter-arrested-in-thailand-for-fraud Mon, 17 Jun 2019 10:44:23 +0200 italian-george-clooney-imposter-arrested-in-thailand-for-fraud Italian police have dismantled two "bone-breaking" gangs in Sicily which had been smashing victims' limbs in order to stage road accidents and defraud car insurance companies. https://www.thelocal.it/20190415/bone-breaking-criminal-gangs-busted-in-italy Mon, 15 Apr 2019 15:32:41 +0200 bone-breaking-criminal-gangs-busted-in-italy Celebrities were among those hit by a diamond scam involving four of Italy's biggest banks. https://www.thelocal.it/20190220/italian-police-investigate-banks-in-diamond-scam Wed, 20 Feb 2019 11:32:47 +0100 italian-police-investigate-banks-in-diamond-scam Gold bullion and an Eataly hamburgheria near Turin were among the 250m euros worth of assets seized by police in a major money laundering investigation. https://www.thelocal.it/20190213/eataly-burger-bar-seized-in-fraud-case Wed, 13 Feb 2019 12:21:39 +0100 eataly-burger-bar-seized-in-fraud-case Italian police have seized two petrol stations in the city of Naples where the pumps had been tampered with to fool customers about the quantity of petrol they were getting. https://www.thelocal.it/20190206/italian-police-bust-petrol-station-scam-in-naples Wed, 06 Feb 2019 15:39:31 +0100 italian-police-bust-petrol-station-scam-in-naples Genoa's Sampdoria football club is at the centre of fraud and money laundering allegations relating to the sale of player Pedro Obiang. https://www.thelocal.it/20181128/italian-police-seize-sampdoria-owners-assets-in-fraud-investigation Wed, 28 Nov 2018 12:37:00 +0100 italian-police-seize-sampdoria-owners-assets-in-fraud-investigation A Spanish university already accused of gifting degrees to high-profile politicians is also being probed for allegedly giving away diplomas to hundreds of Italian nationals, a court spokesman said Thursday September 20th. https://www.thelocal.it/20180920/spanish-university-accused-of-giving-away-diplomas-to-italian-nationals Thu, 20 Sep 2018 18:12:23 +0200 spanish-university-accused-of-giving-away-diplomas-to-italian-nationals Italy's League on Tuesday reached an agreement with prosecutors in Genoa that would allow the party to pay back millions of euros in illegally obtained funds over many decades. https://www.thelocal.it/20180919/italy-league-agrees-to-pay-back-missing-millions-slowly Wed, 19 Sep 2018 10:56:53 +0200 italy-league-agrees-to-pay-back-missing-millions-slowly A man who wrote fake TripAdvisor reviews praising hotels and restaurants in Italy for profit was sentenced to nine months in prison on Wednesday in a case the review site hopes will serve as a precedent. https://www.thelocal.it/20180912/italy-jails-man-for-selling-fake-tripadvisor-reviews Wed, 12 Sep 2018 19:23:20 +0200 italy-jails-man-for-selling-fake-tripadvisor-reviews An Italian court on Thursday authorized the seizing of €49 million in assets from the League, a member of the ruling coalition under Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, after ex-leaders were convicted of fraud. https://www.thelocal.it/20180906/italian-court-oks-seizure-of-49-million-from-the-league Thu, 06 Sep 2018 16:25:21 +0200 italian-court-oks-seizure-of-49-million-from-the-league Italian authorities have busted two Sicilian gangs who used body-building weights to smash the bones of victims in order to commit insurance fraud, police said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20180808/italian-police-bust-bone-breaking-insurance-fraud-gangs Wed, 08 Aug 2018 13:36:42 +0200 italian-police-bust-bone-breaking-insurance-fraud-gangs The fraud trial of two former executives of Italy's troubled lender Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena (BMPS) opened on Tuesday in Milan. https://www.thelocal.it/20180718/fraud-trial-of-two-italian-ex-banking-chiefs-bmps-begins Wed, 18 Jul 2018 10:32:23 +0200 fraud-trial-of-two-italian-ex-banking-chiefs-bmps-begins Italian authorities should seize League funds "wherever they may be" until it has recouped some €49 million of public money received by the party's former leader and convicted fraudster, Italy's supreme court has ruled. https://www.thelocal.it/20180704/italy-league-party-funds-seized-embezzlement-umberto-bossi Wed, 04 Jul 2018 13:42:28 +0200 italy-league-party-funds-seized-embezzlement-umberto-bossi Italy's financial crimes force has identified around a thousand tax evaders accused of dodging more than €2 million a piece in 18 months. https://www.thelocal.it/20180620/italy-tax-evaders Wed, 20 Jun 2018 14:32:49 +0200 italy-tax-evaders An investigation has revealed more than 100 fraudulent claims for hundreds of thousands of euros of state funds intended for victims of the devastating earthquake that shook central Italy in 2016. https://www.thelocal.it/20180619/marche-italy-earthquake-scam-false-compensation-claims Tue, 19 Jun 2018 13:18:20 +0200 marche-italy-earthquake-scam-false-compensation-claims Two former executives of Italy's troubled lender Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena (BMPS) were ordered on Friday to stand trial on fraud charges. https://www.thelocal.it/20180427/former-bmps-bosses-trial-fraud Fri, 27 Apr 2018 19:20:00 +0200 former-bmps-bosses-trial-fraud Serving frozen food at a restaurant without explicitly labelling it as such is a crime, Italy's top court said in a ruling published on Monday. https://www.thelocal.it/20170719/serving-frozen-food-without-telling-customers-menu-fraud-rules-top-italian-cassation-court Wed, 19 Jul 2017 11:31:57 +0200 serving-frozen-food-without-telling-customers-menu-fraud-rules-top-italian-cassation-court A trial against two former members of a Vatican foundation charged with embezzling charity money to refurbish the luxury apartment of a cardinal opened on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20170719/fraud-trial-over-vatican-cardinal-bambino-gesu-giuseppe-profiti-massimo-spina-luxury-lodgings-kicks-off Wed, 19 Jul 2017 11:01:51 +0200 fraud-trial-over-vatican-cardinal-bambino-gesu-giuseppe-profiti-massimo-spina-luxury-lodgings-kicks-off An Italian court on Monday jailed Umberto Bossi, founder and former chief of the anti-immigrant and anti-EU Northern League, for over two years after finding him guilty of fraud while he led the party. https://www.thelocal.it/20170711/founder-former-leader-italys-northern-league-political-party-umberto-bossi-convicted-fraud-embezzlement Tue, 11 Jul 2017 11:01:49 +0200 founder-former-leader-italys-northern-league-political-party-umberto-bossi-convicted-fraud-embezzlement