Corruption, here are the rules "substandard" Renzi. Today the CDM after the Roma
Corruption, here are the rules "substandard" Renzi. Today the CDM after the Roma
Policy & Palace
Elena Ciccarello | December 12, 2014
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Penis higher, longer and prescription confiscation "every penny" of assets to corrupt. In the wake of the investigation "Mafia capital" Matteo Renzi stop hesitating and contradicting his own executive, said that justice to aim for structural reforms and not to "norms spot," promised in the council of ministers (initially Thursday morning, then postponed until tonight) a package of four interventions against corruption. We would expect some real news? It would seem not, even according to the Keeper of Orlando, who spoke of "work on standards already hinged". Much more likely is scegliererà to give a fast track to already announced last August 29 and in part already being discussed in Parliament. Some unreleased could instead get the work of the commission led by the magistrate Nicola Gratteri, wanted by Renzi to deal with changes to the penal code and is for the penitentiary and that, as he admitted himself to Gratteri ilfattoquotidiano.it, in these hours is finishing his work was responsible, amongst other things, of confiscation for the crimes of "white collar".
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Pending the final texts, and unless last-minute surprises, it is therefore already possible to analyze the four anti-corruption moves announced by the Prime Minister.

The punishments. The premier said Renzi will be raised the minimum sentence for the crime of corruption from 4 to 6 years. Why, said in his video message, "it is unthinkable that the plea bargain is always one out of jail." In this way, raising the minimum sentence, even with the use of alternative rites will not be able to escape the prison sentence. A decision in line with calls by the judiciary and of the same Group of States Against Corruption which in 2011 referred to as main problem the virtual impunity of the corrupt. But that is nothing new since a rise of penalties for crimes of "white collar" is present in the anti-corruption bill signed by President of the Senate Grasso presented before the summer and ended up on a dead end because of the will of the executive. "It would be enough that the government gave the green light to the bill stopped in the Senate Judiciary Committee: would we even faster," he said about the Democratic Party Senator Felice Casson, a former magistrate. It is further still to untie the knot on the other corruption offenses, because the announcement of the Prime Minister was referring only to the so-called corruption own and nothing was said of other crimes such as corruption or judicial induction illegal.

The prescription. One of the most critical aspects of the four moves announced by Renzi is represented by lengthening the time limitation. It is not yet clear whether the government will decide this evening to intervene only on the prescription of corruption, as already provided - again - from Fat bill, or the Council of Ministers will become an opportunity to present the most comprehensive reform bill of criminal trial, expected for months now, which contains within it the reform of the prescription. Nothing is yet said. Justice Minister Orlando talking about the anti-corruption package announced by Renzi, however, has stated that "the change of terms of punishment will have effects also on the statute of limitations." Which might suggest, simply, that there will be no intervention on prescribing of corruption, but there will be instead a lengthening automatic these terms as a result of rising maximum sentences of offenses.

  The confiscation of the corrupt and the return of "ill-gotten gains." Renzi said that with the new measures "will be much easier to confiscate, against those who have stolen" and that the corrupt "will return to the last penny." This theme is not new but rather the possible acceleration of standards already submitted to Parliament. Already the government bill on Mafia assets, currently under discussion in the Senate, contains a series of measures to make the most effective and fast confiscations preventing, for example, that those convicted of corruption can justify their incomes disproportionate as the result of tax evasion, enlargement to third parties for the confiscation equivalent and the ability to carry out the seizure even for the death of the offender. All changes to the rules contained in a recent report by the Anti-Mafia Commission, presented as "comprehensive revision" of the anti-mafia and also presented in Parliament as a bill.

The text of the mafia also puts pen to paper the possibility of using the tools used to confiscate the mafia even against the suspects of vote trading and the crimes of "white collar". Two lines that could give new impetus to a practice already successfully used by the judiciary and that recently led, for example, to seize assets of 13 million euro to the former Chairman of the Board of Public Works Angelo Balducci, accused of belonging the so-called "gang of contracts" Major Events.

  Announcements. Some authentic unpublished might instead arrive, as we have said, the work of the Committee Gratteri. Or the will of the executive to respond to the other, numerous, the problems raised by the judiciary more committed to the corruption. "They would be useful interventions on the investigative phase" reminded again two nights ago Raffaele Cantone, president of anti, La 7, emphasizing the usefulness of extending the rule on the use of wiretaps used in crime investigation also mafia crimes of corruption, as well as the instrument of "agents provocateurs", ie people "infiltrated" mandate of the investigators, or even incentives to "repent" white collar. But on all these aspects Renzi, in his video message on Thursday, did not say anything.