Financial assets of over 970 thousand euros were seized from three people and a company . The investigation for aggravated fraud is followed by the military of the Economic-Financial Police Unit of the Guardia di Finanza of Cagliari .
The recipients of the preventive seizure, aimed at confiscation and which concerns sums of money equal to 972,342 euros , are a company operating in the software production sector - initially based in Brescia and then in the province of Milan - and the chairman of the Board of Pro tempore administration.
The investigative activity is focused on the correct use of EU funding subsidized through the Integrated Packages of Benefits (PIA) in execution of the Programming Unitaria 2007-2013 – POR Sardinia – ERDF 2007/2013 (Interventions in support of competitiveness and innovation ), which had been requested and obtained by the company for the creation and development of an advanced security IT infrastructure, with cyber security methodologies and technologies, called "PISDAS" (Integrated Platform for Secure Advanced Digital Services).
This IT architecture had to be created through the use of human resources found within the Sardinian territory, having specialist IT and telecommunications skills (analysts and software designers, engineering, physics or IT graduates) and employed in a permanent office in the Island.
Based on the results of the investigations carried out, the creation of the software in a production unit located in Sardinia was allegedly fraudulently certified, also stating that the researchers and staff employed had worked in Cagliari: all through the exhibition of documentation from which the falsehood is assumed, which thus allowed the company to obtain the first two tranches of the contribution - totaling 972,342 euros - misleading the officials of the Regional Programming Center of the Autonomous Region of Sardinia, deputies to the preliminary investigation of the loan application and the control of compliance with the requirements set out in the call for tenders.
