Overview
- The Guardia di Finanza, which raided the Defence Ministry, Terna, RFI and the Polo Strategico Nazionale on Thursday, is investigating alleged bid-rigging and bribery in public IT contracts.
- Rome prosecutors say 26 people are under investigation for corruption, money laundering, self-laundering, bid rigging and illicit influence.
- Investigators describe fake invoices that generated cash, luxury-watch purchases used to hide flows, leaked technical specs that tilted tenders toward chosen firms.
- Case files detail a 400 million euro RFI tender that Nsr allegedly tailored after seeing the bid document early.
- Investigators are now forensically reviewing documents and devices seized in the raids to trace money flows and the path of the contracts back to the earlier Sogei case.