New Highway Code, from the 21st car Isee above 50 thousand euros will be needed

It is the phenomenon of "professional frontmen": poor people (homeless or with no income) to whom dozens or hundreds of cars are fictitiously registered. In the news there have been record-breaking cases such as the one a few years ago when the State Police, following a roadside check, discovered that a 65-year-old homeless man was the owner of 914 vehicles.

"Ghost cars" are one of the most used capital goods of criminal organizations: vehicles used through a frontman to commit crimes that make it difficult to identify those responsible and combat the crime.

Measures against fictitious headers

The new Highway Code intervenes on the matter to strengthen controls and increase prevention with a presumption of simulated ownership: when a natural person, already owner of at least twenty M1 category vehicles for his own use (i.e. cars for the transport of people with a maximum of eight seats in addition to the driver) requests the registration of a further vehicle of the same category, he will have to demonstrate possession of an ISEE (Equivalent Economic Situation Indicator) of more than 50 thousand euros, i.e. adequate financial capacity for management of such a large fleet of cars.

Or it must be demonstrated that those vehicles are used for an economic activity or for voluntary activities of one of the associations registered in the single national third sector register.