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VENICE There are two areas that have caused a deficit close to 500 thousand euros in ACTV’s budget. The first, which revolves around the sale of tickets for the kiosks in Piazzale Roma, has already caused the dismissal of a company official. The second line, on which an internal investigation by Avm is underway, had as a first consequence the suspension of work as a precautionary measure of a Vela employee and instead refers to the sale of “chip on paper” tickets , which is pre-validated for hotels, hostels and various dealerships, distributed to tourists by accommodation facilities and paid in cash. In the first case, more than 400 thousand euros of receipts would be missing for the sale of tickets not transferred to ACTV, in the second the quantification of any damage is still in progress.
THE NEWSBOOK AND AMANCO
The “hole” created by the newsstand in Piazzale Roma, run by a leasing company, would have been created over the course of a few months. A stranger to the whole thing is the owner of the kiosk rental agreement, Giovanni Prevedello, who has the relationship with Avm for the lease within the Actv dock of line 2: business now for sale. It would have been the current manager of the kiosk who withheld the receipts of the tickets, but would have taken the classic step “longer than his leg.”
In an attempt to expand its network of ticket sales (an operation that is around three and a half million euros a year), it also bought a third kiosk. A demanding operation for which he would have been excessively exposed economically. To cover the growing liquidity needs, therefore, it would have jumped and delayed the payment of coupons to Avm, withholding around 400 thousand euros. An official who was fired a couple of weeks ago should have supervised the control of financial flows between the company and the kiosks. Avm filed a complaint with the judicial authority about this whole matter.
THE COLLECTION
More complex and delicate is the matter related to the sale of physical tickets, on which an internal investigation is underway that must reconstruct the contours and also quantify any economic damage. The sales system works like this: Vela controls the movement of the ticketing in real time at the end of each employee’s shift.
Everything happens digitally and every eight hours the activity of each worker is reported. Even the tobacconists that sell the tickets work with a kind of Pos of the company, validating the “virgin” tickets from time to time and paying the amount by means of a bank discount every ten days. Or they issue fertilizers by charging the cards: an operation that, although carried out in cash, provides for payment in digital currency to Vela. Before the electronic issuance of tickets, however, everything was produced with the delivery of packages of tickets on consignment, which were paid in cash, or by check to avoid the circulation of money, against receipts. And so it continues to happen with the loading of the sailors’ bills, over which there is very strict control. But this cash sale system is still active in relation to some external structures such as family hotels, hostels and other realities.
And in fact it is precisely a Vela external sales employee who was suspended as a precaution, because – this is the suspicion – he would not have paid the consideration for the tickets delivered. The company is trying to quantify the shortfall. However, there would be many structures that would have benefited from the banknote “home delivery” service, especially the smaller ones, not equipped with pos.
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