Through the creation and management of databases and the customs control circuit, it monitors and analyses trade flows and other information held by the Agency, in order to draw up risk profiles to guide and make control activities more effective. It carries out intelligence activities on risk trade flows, also through the management of the Analysis Room. It achieves mutual assistance and administrative cooperation activities. As far as it is concerned, it ensures the participation in committees and working groups at national and international level. It manages and coordinates the implementation of strategies for the analysis and prevention of offences, also within the framework of the Convention with the National Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Directorate, providing the relevant operational structures with the necessary information on the actions to be taken to fight crimes relating to its area of competence, in particular those related to association or international money laundering and terrorist financing. It carries out investigations for the repression of tax and extra-tax crimes concerning the Agency's competence, conducting investigations on behalf of the judicial authorities and making use of cooperation and information exchange tools, also at international level. It handles relations with the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO), the national public prosecutors' offices and coordinates the Agency's territorial structures when dealing with the information activities provided for by current legislation. It issues guidelines for the investigative activity of the responsible territorial structures and collaborates with the operational structures by promoting the appointment of specialised intervention groups. It coordinates the national management of laboratory analyses, also for third parties, the equipment of individual laboratories and the accreditation of the same in compliance with the required international standards. It sets up the procedures for laboratory analyses, panel analyses and memoranda of understanding. It steers and coordinates the territorial Directorates of the Agency, monitoring their activities.

Director:  Sergio GALLO

Phone number: 0039  

E-mail: dir.antifrode@adm.gov.it

Certified e-mai: dir.antifrodecontrolli@pec.adm.gov.it

The Directorate consists of the following non-general managerial level offices.

It supports the Directorate in providing assistance to the Director of the Agency for anti-fraud activities carried out towards third parties. It assists the Directorate in managing the activities of the Analysis Room. It coordinates the several analysis rooms to examine predictive activities of tax and extra-tax offences in the fields of energy, alcohol, tobacco, customs and games. Through information flows, it analyses international traffic and offences focusing on dual-use materials, strategic materials, drugs, tobacco, waste, cultural goods and the gaming sector. It provides informational support to the central and territorial Structures in charge of controls and investigations concerning reports coming from the national anti-fraud information circuit. As far as it is concerned, it ensures the participation in committees and working groups at national and international level and coordinates and monitors the proper implementation of activities by the Agency's territorial Directorates. It implements the risk analysis and risk management process, important for tax and extra-tax purposes, within the customs control circuit and the customs security circuit (Security and Safety). It carries out risk analysis for the prevention of offences in the areas of competence of the Agency. It performs a constant evaluation of risk warnings coming from the services of the European Commission, the other Member States, the central and territorial structures of the Agency. It performs preliminary activity for the Directorate in the drafting of sector regulations for aspects of its competence. It handles questions received through the telematic Office for Relations with the Public and coordinates and monitors the proper enforcement of regulatory provisions and practices by the Agency's offices.

Head of Office: Sergio GALLO (interim)

Phone number: +39 06 50242237 – 06 50246440 - 06 50246573

E-mail: dir.antifrode.intelligence@adm.gov.it

It helps the Directorate to guide and coordinate investigation carried out by local offices to combatting tax and extra tax crimes related to energy, alcohol, tobacco, customs, and gaming and added value tax. It manages relations with the Central Coordination Office for the implementation of Naples II Convention. It manages the information received from OLAF under mutual assistance in customs matters on frauds, AM information and Joint Operations in coordination with Intelligence Office. Where necessary, it also works with the Office which manages relations with European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) and National Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Directorate. It manages the requests of mutual administrative assistance in the field of customs, administrative cooperation in the field of preferential origin arrangements, administrative cooperation in the field of intra-Community VAT. It plays, in the cases of particular interest, roles of judicial and tax police within its sphere of competence by coordinating specialised support groups. It manages and controls, in coordination with law enforcement authorities and other institutions, the fight against crimes in the field of public gaming; it fosters and provides support to activities carried out through the Committee for Prevention and Repression of illegal gaming (CoPReGI). It participates, within its sphere of competence, to committees and working groups at national and international level. It coordinates and monitors the compliance with activities of local Directorates of the Agency. It carries out the preliminary activity on behalf of the Directorate by drawing up the related rules. It coordinates the implementation of memorandum of understanding between the Agency and the law enforcement authorities for controlling jointly operations on crimes. Where significant technological violations raise up that could compromise the protection of information and IT systems of the Agency by carrying out activities within its sphere of competence, the office shall inform the competent Infrastructure and Cybersecurity Office of the Organization and Digital Transformation Directorate to carry out the relevant controls. It manages the questions received remotely through the digital public relations office, it coordinates and monitors the compliance with the rules and practices by the other offices of the Agency.

Head of office: Claudia MORI (interim)

Phone number: +39 0650247417

E-mail: dir.antifrode.investigazioni@adm.gov.it

It manages the compliance of analysis methods carried out by Agency laboratories to assess and verify the goods compliance with the legislation and standards. It draws up and manages and the processes related to the activity of identity assessment, both for Agency laboratories and external participating offices. It coordinates the activity of analysis carried out by chemical labs within its sphere of competence, by providing technical and legislative updates. It provides technical opinions for issuing exemption certificates for excise goods or goods not subject to excise duties, for issuing Binding Tariff Information (BTI) and identifying VAT rate. It manages the labs activities under Minister Decree of 31 August 1994 (G.U. No 232, of 4 October 1994). It promotes the specialization of chemical laboratories and develops their performance quality, by coordinating the activities both for institutional and commercial goals. It ensures the connection with international organizations and participates in working groups, project groups, committees, and commissions at national and international level. It defines and develops activities for the provision of laboratories services in a market economy, by providing support to local offices for drawing up of conventions in the field of chemical services. It participates in committees and working groups at national and international level. It carries out the preliminary activity on behalf of the Directorate by drawing up the rules of the sector. It manages the questions received remotely through the digital public relations office, it coordinates and monitors the compliance with the rules and practices by the other offices of the Agency.

Head of Office: Alessandro PROPOSITO

Head of Office: +39 0650246049

E-mail: dir.antifrode.laboratori@adm.gov.it

It manages the relations with European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) and coordinates the local offices of the Agency in the information process as laid down in the current legislation. It manages the central Directorates’ obligations under the Legislative Decree NO. 9 of 2 February 2021, which is in force since 6th February 2021, by issuing directives and provisions addressed to Agency offices. It defines and updates the process of economic assessment in the field of tax crimes on duties and VAT fight by EPPO. It coordinates the local offices for assessing the competences in the field of European Public Prosecutor where the thresholds set out by the current provisions are exceeded: it carries out information activities, it coordinates and controls relations with EPPO prosecutors competent at local level for combatting infringements against the Community budget. It supports the compilation of the statistics and surveys on criminal practices fight by EPPO. It coordinates investigation activities carried out by EPPO which are particularly significant for the Community budget. It sends, for the introduction of customs control circuit, the indicators that should be monitored to check frauds fight by EPPO. It draws up the guidelines addressed to competent central directorates for identifying criminal practices fight by EPPO. It promotes training of specialised intervention groups for analysing, studying, and fighting crimes fight by EPPO. It manages, with two-months deadline, the roadmap of the current trials carried out by Deputy European Public Prosecutors. It manages the relations with National Anti-Mafia Directorate and Anti-Mafia District Directorates, and it share with other competent offices the possible interventions for the investigation development. It carries out, for the national significant cases, investigation activities on behalf of District Prosecutor. It helps the Directorate, for the National Anti-Mafia Directorate matters, drawing up the strategies to fight against financial interests of organized crime within the Agency sphere of competence. It supports studying activities aimed at identifying any new investigation processes and sends to the National Anti-mafia and Anti-Terrorism Directorate all data and information needed to identify any connections between goods flows at risk and suspicious financial flows. It provides information support to Financial Intelligence Unity of Bank of Italy, to the Financial Security Committee and Ministry of Economy and Finance. It participates in committees and working groups at national and international level. It carries out the preliminary activity on behalf of the Directorate by drawing up the rules of the sector. It manages the questions received remotely through the digital public relations office, it coordinates and monitors the compliance with the rules and practices by the other offices of the Agency.

Head of Office: Paolo VALERIO

Phone number: +39

E-mail: dir.antifrode.eppo-dna@adm.gov.it