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Two men stabbed and left to die on Turin street

Police are searching for the killer of two men who were stabbed and left to die in the middle of a street in central Turin in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

Published: 16 April 2014 16:10 CEST
Two men stabbed and left to die on Turin street
Police suspect the murder may be linked to a territorial dispute among rival parking attendants in the area. File photo: Flickr

The bodies of cousins Abdelhadi, 44, and Abdelhamid Berdi, 56, were discovered in a pool of blood on via Nizza, near the Molinette hospital in Turin, Corriere della Sera reported on Wednesday.

The alarm was raised by a security guard who saw one of the victims stagger and collapse after the attack at around 5:30am.

One of the men suffered four stab wounds to the chest and the other a single stab wound which perforated his lung. The murder weapon has not been found.

It is not yet clear if there was more than one attacker.

The victims, both from Khouribga, Morocco, are believed to have worked as unlicensed car park attendants in the area.

Abdelhamid Berdi leaves behind a wife and child.

According to La Stampa, the men carried out their business on via Cherasco in an area known for the activity.

Police suspect the murder may be linked to a territorial dispute among rival parking attendants in the area.

They are currently interviewing shopkeepers and residents in the area.    

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Italy has most recovery fund fraud cases in EU, report finds

Italy is conducting more investigations into alleged fraud of funds from the EU post-Covid fund and has higher estimated losses than any other country, the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) said.

Published: 8 April 2024 17:05 CEST
Italy has most recovery fund fraud cases in EU, report finds

The EPPO reportedly placed Italy under special surveillance measures following findings that 179 out of a total of 206 investigations into alleged fraud of funds through the NextGenerationEU programme were in Italy, news agency Ansa reported.

Overall, Italy also had the highest amount of estimated damage to the EU budget related to active investigations into alleged fraud and financial wrongdoing of all types, the EPPO said in its annual report published on Friday.

The findings were published after a major international police investigation into fraud of EU recovery funds on Thursday, in which police seized 600 million euros’ worth of assets, including luxury villas and supercars, in northern Italy.

The European Union’s Recovery and Resilience Facility, established to help countries bounce back from the economic blow dealt by the Covid pandemic, is worth more than 800 billion euros, financed in large part through common EU borrowing.

READ ALSO: ‘It would be a disaster’: Is Italy at risk of losing EU recovery funds?

Italy has been the largest beneficiary, awarded 194.4 billion euros through a combination of grants and loans – but there have long been warnings from law enforcement that Covid recovery funding would be targeted by organised crime groups.

2023 was reportedly the first year in which EU financial bodies had conducted audits into the use of funds under the NextGenerationEU program, of which the Recovery Fund is part.

The EPPO said that there were a total of 618 active investigations into alleged fraud cases in Italy at the end of 2023, worth 7.38 billion euros, including 5.22 billion euros from VAT fraud alone.

At the end of 2023, the EPPO had a total of 1,927 investigations open, with an overall estimated damage to the EU budget of 19.2 billion euros.

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