The Financiers of the Provincial Command of Cosenza have executed an arrest order issued by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Castrovillari against the former president of the Order of Accountants and Accounting Experts of the Pollino capital, Vincenzo Domenico De Franco.
The complex investigation, carried out by the financiers of the Castrovillari Company, was particularly difficult as the documentation acquired was fragmentary and the related accounting was kept in a disorganized manner.
The Fiamme Gialle, however, have reconstructed and demonstrated the responsibility of the former president of the Order of Accountants and Accounting Experts of Castrovillari, in relation to the crime of embezzlement, because between 2010 and 2014 the latter had misappropriated over 160,000 euros from the funds of the Order’s coffers, withdrawn from the institution’s bank and postal current accounts without reporting or supporting documents of expenditure, using them instead for needs of a personal nature.
The criminal liability of the former Administrator was confirmed by the Court of Castrovillari with the issuing of a final conviction, which imposed a prison sentence of 2 years and 9 months for the aforementioned person responsible and the additional penalties of perpetual disqualification from holding public offices and perpetual inability to negotiate with the Public Administration.
The investigations can be traced back to a sector of intervention that is particularly attentive to the protection of the community by the Fiamme Gialle, that of property abuse, taking into account the public qualification of the organisation’s assets, due to the nature of the professional orders as non-economic public bodies which operate under the supervision of the State for general purposes.
The activity, carried out in close operational synergy with the Castrovillari Public Prosecutor’s Office, confirms the constant commitment of the Financial Police in guaranteeing the repression of crimes and instilling security in the community.