Written and reported by Antonio Amorosi
In the shirts of the Anti-Corruption Bill. The pillar is the repentant. Here's who he is and how he "works". For the yellow-green government, it is possible to eradicate corruption.
They really wrote it and digging through the papers it could be the relevant innovation in the judicial processes of the coming years: whoever repents of a corrupt act can save himself.

Thus the repentant from corruption is born. The figure was inserted in Anti-corruption bill, and was approved by the Senate, to attack this type of crime in Italy, according to the Court of Auditors, it's a phenomenon “devastating” which also significantly affects public debt.
In our country, control systems are poor and ineffective, he explained in 2017 the Attorney General Claudio Galtieri.
“The first antidote to corruption is transparency”, he said a few months ago at The Sun 24 ore the president of the Court of Auditors Angelo Buscema, “which however cannot be achieved with a myriad of obligations concentrated on individual specific aspects, and disconnected from a systemic objective". Among the most relevant are the "simplification of the rules and effectiveness of the enforcement tools". How to say: corruption cannot be eradicated with a jungle of rules, in fact the opposite is true, the more rules there are, the easier it is to circumvent them, taking advantage of the interpretative conflicts between these.
Yet in Italy, also in a recent study by Unimpresa, it is written that corruption “devours” 10 billions of gross domestic product per year in total 100 billion in a decade.
A fact that exists and which is actually difficult to quantify. However, it is not serious to calculate it with rankings such as that of the NGO Transparency International which carries out surveys on "perceived corruption" in such a country based on the responses of businessmen, experts and analysts.
In the new Anti-Corruption bill of the Minister of Justice, Alfonso Bonafede, the rule is introduced which also allows those who have participated in corrupt crimes to be able to repent and have their accomplices punished. A system that is certainly "unpleasant" and could trigger unforeseen counterproductive effects, but also be of some effectiveness. This will only be understood by the facts.
 
It works like this: those who report corrupt events must be able to prove the crime and make the sums of money involved in the activity available to the judicial authority. But non-punishability against the perpetrator who repents will be triggered only if his complaint arrives before he himself has had news of the investigation against him being carried out (that is, before the potential repentant has been registered in the register of suspects) and always within four months of the commission of the crime. To avoid being punished, the whistleblower must therefore provide evidence and concrete indications of the crime and allow those responsible to be identified. And he will not be punished if he makes the perceived utility available to the authority, money or anything else, o will give concrete indications to identify the beneficiaries of the corrupt act.
 
This series of changes were included in the Anti-Corruption Bill in the Senate approved a few days ago, after an initial mess and attacks received by local administrators. In the original draft the rule did not provide for those who repented neither the obligation to prove the crime nor proof of payment money or other benefit, with the risk of elevating summary justice to law, also given the times and cumbersomeness of Italian justice. Ora, after the changes, it seems that the government has adjusted its aim. So with 162 favorable votes at Palazzo Madama (to which they responded 119 against and one abstention), the law will return to the Chamber of Deputies for a third reading and final approval, if there are no further changes.
The "corruption repentant" measure is a provision that will in any case have to be tested in the field following the application of the rule, especially in local contexts, given the complicated procedures that regulate the action of the public administration (which should be the sector mainly affected by the provision).
SOURCE: http://www.affaritaliani.it/politica/ddl-anticorruzione-chi-si-pente-si-salva-ma-se-denuncia-in-tempo-e-utilmente-578066.html