Car liability, car insurance
An insurance fraud network dismantled in Naples: I organized fake claims
They intentionally staged car accidents with the aim of defrauding insurance companies, involving witnesses, false medical documents and invented damages. Naples, Melito, Piano di Sorrento, Aversa, Curti, Minturno, and Servigliano are the cities involved in an important law enforcement operation against a criminal association specialized in scams to insurance companies through the deception of fake claims.
The operation was conducted by the Carabinieri of the Vomero company, following an order applying precautionary measures issued by the Court of Naples at the request of the local prosecutor’s office. The operation resulted to the arrest of four people, of which one is in prison and three are under house arrest. Additionally, two lawyers and six doctors were suspended from their activities, among others 23 people are under investigation.
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The association’s strategy included a meticulous planning for each scam. The first step consisted in identifying all the subjects involved, from the dynamics of the fake accident, to the fake witnesses, to the emergency room doctors for the false reports and to the doctors of the private centers for subsequent visits. Furthermore, the compliant body shop workers had the task of drawing up false documentation on the damage suffered by the vehicles involved, so as to make the documentation coincide with the apparent injuries.
Once this initial phase was completed, the compliant lawyers. They were responsible for instructing the procedures relating to fake accidents and agreed on the statements of the fake witnesses. In at least two cases, investigations revealed that the statements had been made by non-existent individuals. The proceeds of the scams, once collected, were withdrawn in fractions, in order to hide their illegal origin.
This is a continuation of investigations launched in March, when three people were arrested on suspicion of car thefts under the guise of illegal parking in front of a hospital. The investigations, conducted by the Carabinieri of the Naples Marianella station and by the magistrates of the Neapolitan Prosecutor’s Office, made it possible to outline the modus operandi of the criminal association specializing in insurance scams.
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