"Crosetto first sounded the alarm of “a serious ongoing scam” in a social media post last week..."<p>Corsetto is the defence minister, the quote is from FT.com<p>Not sure that the lesson was fully internalised.
TLDR: some scammers impersonating the difense minister got 1 or more entrepeneurs to send them big payments quickly. The public discourse is around the "normalcy" of private entrepeneurs about sending money to elected officials