The investigations by the Fiamme Gialle began in 2017, following the opening by two brothers – who had no economic problems – of life insurance policies for a total of 1.3 million euros
Potenza – Crimes, criminal and “moral”: this is how the investigators define the scams for over two million euros of which, in Lauria (Potenza), two spouses over eighty, he disabled, she illiterate, without children, were victims of two great-grandchildren, investigated by the Public Prosecutor of Lagonegro (Potenza) for circumvention of incapacity and aggravated fraud.
As part of the same investigation, the Guardia di Finanza arrested and placed under house arrest the supervisor of a post office in Lauria, about 40 years old, who must answer for fraud and money laundering in competition, inducement to make false statements to the judicial authorities and aiding and abetting. The investigations by the Fiamme Gialle began in 2017, following the opening by the two brothers – who had no economic problems – of life insurance policies for a total of 1.3 million euros, at a post office in Lauria, city of about 12 thousand inhabitants in the southern area of Basilicata. Well, the Guardia di Finanza ascertained that that amount came from a donation, or rather, from an alleged donation made by their great-uncles (he, a former trader who at the time of the facts, “was in conditions of physical disability and mental “, died in 2017).
By analyzing the documentation, the military discovered that in total the amount of money “donated” over the years prior to 2017, including through the issuance of bank drafts, it even reached 2.2 million euros, sum for which now the investigating judge of Lagonegro, having accepted the request of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, has ordered the preventive seizure for the equivalent. According to the investigators, all the financial transactions underlying the taking out of life insurance policies were “completely illegal” and were “perpetrated with the necessary connivance of postal officials and employees”. In particular, the most serious accusations concern the supervisor of the post office in Lauria who allegedly endorsed the “movements” of money in total violation of the anti-money laundering rules, in force since 2007.
They were also entered in the register of suspects the director and another post office official, for taking part in aggravated fraud and money laundering because they did not “adequately” check the conditions of the two elderly people. Further investigations are underway to shed light on any “benefits” obtained by the three postal employees, to ascertain, in short, whether part of the money was given to them by the two brothers. Circumstances not easy to prove also because in this story there are a lot of “cash”: not surprisingly, among the crimes alleged, for various reasons, the suspects also include that of improper use of payment cards. The sixth suspect, for false statements, is a man, “the false witness” who allegedly participated in some operations, such as those in which the elderly, illiterate, he had to put the “X” to authorize the movement of money in favor of the two brothers.
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