cheat

corruption

'Honest' Swedes as likely to fudge taxes as crafty Italians

Italians are often considered to be more dishonest than their northern European counterparts, due mostly to the country's high profile problems with corruption and tax evasion.

labour

Time up for work shirkers as Italy declares crackdown

Italy is preparing to tighten the law against time clock cheats after a series of stings which found people clocking-in for friends and a traffic cop punching-in in his underpants.

Italy

'Pay back jilted bride': top court tells groom

Italy's Court of Cassation has ruled that a man who backed out of his wedding at the last-minute must cover the wedding costs incurred by his jilted ex.

Fr

Italian poker cheat used infra-red contact lenses

A court near the glamorous French Riviera city of Cannes this week handed a jail term to a daring and sophisticated Italian poker cheat, who used infra-red contact lenses to count cards marked with invisible ink in a scam described as "the first of its kind in Europe".

benefits

'Blind' Bari man claims benefits for 30 years

A 64-year-old man from Bari lived off disability benefits for 30 years by claiming he was blind.