CGIL patronage anomalies, serious what happens in union facilities abroad

Di Giuseppe (Fdi), Landini responds on anomalies patronati CGIL Grave what happens in the structures of his union abroad “What happens in New York in the Inca patronato of CGIL is a disgrace. Between inflated practices, money requested from our compatriots abroad to carry out services that are actually free of charge and funding received from Italy for work that was never done, the patronati have allegedly been collecting, for years and without reason, millions of euros that should be returned.” This is how Andrea Di Giuseppe, a Fratelli d’Italia deputy elected abroad in the North American constituency, commented on the television report on patronages broadcast by the program ‘The State of Things. “A year ago,” Di Giuseppe continued, “I had been the first to present an interpellation to the House on foreign union institutes, the need for more controls on their work and the many irregularities that had been found as a result of investigations. Even, I had discovered that a Canadian patronage had hosted the Pd primaries. All this is unacceptable. I want to see if next week the CGIL secretary Landini will have the courage to respond to Massimo Giletti’s invitation to appear on ‘The State of Things’ to respond on what was shown in the report aired yesterday.” “The first indications that something irregular was happening abroad,” the FdI deputy concludes, “I discovered during my election campaign, when my staff pointed out to me a number of ultracentenarians in the lists of voters: after a personal check by me it turned out that they were deceased. Voting issue aside, if it turned out that the pensions of thousands of people who had been dead for years were being received by unknown persons, perhaps with the help of patronages, we would be talking about enormous fiscal damage. At the time I filed a complaint with the Public Prosecutor’s Office, I expect the first results of the investigation to arrive soon.”