NAPLES -- Carabinieri police executed a suspension order Tuesday for 18 employees from the Neapolitan commune of Giugliano, out of a group of 50 under investigation for absenteeism, caught on camera doing scratch cards instead of being at work, police said.

 CCTV cameras were installed around Giugliano during the course of the investigation into 50 fraudulent employees from the Neapolitan commune by carabinieri. The footage shows the employees swiping in other workers’ identification to testify their presence at work falsely, or swiping their own badges and then leaving without clocking out.

 Meanwhile, the absent employees would spend their time outside of work as they pleased -- taking care of private matters or gambling with scratch cards.

 Tuesday morning, the military executed a suspension order for 18 employees, from the northern Naples’ Judge for Preliminary Investigation, at the request of the local public prosecutor’s office.

 The prosecutors have charged these employees with aggravated fraud and false attestation. There are 50 workers in total under investigation -- according to the investigation’s hypothesis, 44 of these would falsely log in their presence at work, leading to them being granted a false wage.

 Another six workers, responsible for the services of various offices in the commune of Giugliano, failed to denounce these fraudulent activities of the personnel despite being aware of them, so are under investigation for failure to report a crime.

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