Corruption cornered – Italy Today

Corruption cornered – Italy Today

Crackdown on Corruption. Went from eight to ten years and the maximum sentence from four to six the minimum. Yesterday, in fact, the Judiciary Committee of the Senate, during the vote on the amendments to the anti-corruption bill, has given the green light to the amendment of the government tightening the penalties for the offense under Article. 319 of the Criminal Code. The new formulation of the rule is, therefore, that in the event that the public official, omits or delays an act of his office, or performs an act contrary to the duties of the office to receive for himself or for a third party money or other benefits will be punished with imprisonment from six to ten years. “A result,” he told ItaliaOggi Giuseppe Lumia (Pd), “in the right direction and that we can not be satisfied.” Satisfaction confirmed by Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, as a result of the vote, pointed out that “corruption, increasing the penalties up to 10 years, we are keeping the promises made in December: who pays

steals and returns to the last penny.” And while on the front of the fight against corruption to the text work progressing slowly but inexorably, the stalemate continues on false accounting. The text of the government, in fact, still has not been presented in committee and, yesterday afternoon, was presented by the Deputy Minister of Justice Enrico Costa, the hypothesis of the presentation in plenary scheduled for next week, within which, moreover, as admitted by the Minister of Justice Andrea Orlando, will “be approved by the entire Senate bill.” Hypothesis, however, is in the opinion of Lumia, both in the opinion of the speaker in the text Nico D’Ascola (Ncd), it would be meaningless even at the procedural level. “We are working for a long time and it makes no sense that we should get in the Hall,” Lumia stressed, “we will ask the government to let us have the proposal in the C ommission. ‘