Valeria Satta and Manuela Passero, the two women accused of defrauding the professional volleyball player Roberto Cazzaniga, have been sent to trial. The trial will begin in Cagliari on July 19. But how did the scam that cost him almost 700 thousand euros, extorted through deception, happen?
The story emerged in autumn 2021, when Cazzaniga, then 43 years old, publicly revealed his misfortune: for 15 years he was convinced he was having a relationship with a beautiful woman who called herself “Maya” and whose contact details had been passed to him by a friend, Manuela Passero. Too bad that the photos of the girl were those of the top model Alessandra Amoroso. “From that moment I started listening to her until I fell in love with her,” he said.
On the phone, according to the investigators’ reconstructions, was the Sardinian Valeria Satta. Her accent could be heard, even if only slightly, and in any case she hadn’t made him suspicious: «she seemed normal to me because she told me she lived in Sardinia».
The self-styled model, after gaining his trust, began to implement a whole series of stratagems to extract money from him. In particular, she claimed to suffer from serious health problems, she said. The man gave her all the money she had, then – having run out of resources – she also started asking for money to borrow: “I was in love with her, so much so that for thirteen years I didn’t have any other girls.”
Cazzaniga’s friends arrived to save him but instead of turning to the police, they contacted the editorial staff of the Mediaset program, Le Iene, who made the story known.
In April 2022, the Financial Police had seized assets worth approximately 74 thousand euros from the two suspects – for fraud and impersonation. In September last year, during the pre-trial hearing at the Court of Cagliari, Valeria Satta had requested probation, that is, to be able to carry out socially useful work in order to avoid conviction and obtain the extinction of the crime. However, the judge rejected the request, also due to the lack of compensation to the injured party. Now, the indictment.
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