China News Service, April 23. According to Hong Kong's "Wen Wei Po", a 67-year-old man in Italy was revealed to have not gone to work for the past 15 years, but has been receiving wages every month, totaling 538,000 euros.
The police collected sufficient evidence and took an arrest. He faces charges of abuse of power, forgery of documents, and serious blackmail.
The man involved in the case, Scummans, worked in a hospital in Catanzaro, but he has not been at work since 2005.
It is reported that he threatened the then hospital director in 2005 to prevent the director from conducting disciplinary investigations on his absenteeism.
After the former dean retired, neither the new dean nor the human resources department checked his attendance.
Due to the serious problem of absenteeism in the Italian public service sector, the government tightened relevant laws in 2016. The police have launched investigations into a number of cases in recent years.
The police collected his attendance records and inquired with his colleagues, and finally arrested the person. The six managers of the hospital also needed to be investigated for allegedly condoning the absenteeism of their subordinates.
In addition to this case, the police also revealed through hidden cameras that 35 employees of the Sanremo City Council were suspected of being clocked in and falsely reported attendance records in the past two years.