Report of the Central Control Section on the Management of State Administrations
"The Fund's revenues do not constitute actual public reserves because they can be claimed by the rightholders (owners or successors mortis causa) within the ten-year ordinary prescription period through an assessment procedure essentially without discretionary profiles".
This is what is revealed by the Central Audit Section of the Court of Auditors on the management of State administrations in the report concerning the "dormant relations" fund, established pursuant to the 23 law December 2005, n. 266, which has, among other things, verified whether the purpose pursued by the legislature - that of compensating savers who are victims of financial fraud - has been achieved through the use of the resources devolved to the fund that contains the amounts of the so-called "dormant ".
The MEF circular is inconsistent with which it was agreed that the prescription term for the restitution of the amounts of the dormant accounts to those entitled begins to run again from the devolution of the sums of the extinct relationships to the entry of the State budget - reads the report - The resources frozen for an indefinite time have caused double damage for the victims both in terms of fraud suffered and in terms of randomness in compensation. In this regard, a clarifying regulatory intervention is desirable ”.
“The considerable cost, which affects the fund, sustained by the personnel of the Consap concessionaire, did not appear justified in relation both to the number of units assigned annually and to the relative percentage of work, even if the lack of a peculiar technical characteristic was expected. The indemnity obligations provided for by the most recent legislation, aimed at protecting savers who have suffered economic damage from the defaulted banks, impose a considerable commitment on the part of the financial administration to implement it, in order not to repeat the criticalities found in the management of the Fund established in the 2006 ”.
"It should also be considered - observes the Court - that subsequent legislative interventions have conspicuously destined part of these proceeds to other purposes such as the social card, scientific research, Alitalia, the financial restoration fund, Fir)".
The Section concludes by stating that: "On potentially dormant relationships it is necessary to give life, also through the use of the tax register, to a series of action plans to strengthen the activities of finding deaths and identifying and searching for beneficiaries in order to to exclude the hypothesis of 'dormancy' ".