Two residence obligations performed by the carabinieri of Santo Stefano di Camastra, coordinated by the major. Angelo Salici. The order of the investigating judge of Patti, Eugenio Aliquò, was issued on request by the local prosecutor.
For the two – RV. And Ugcohabiting and both residing in the Tyrrhenian town – the prescription not to move away from its home in certain temporal bands. Are considered seriously suspects, in competition with each other, of the crime of aggravated fraud throughout the national territorycommitted to the detriment of multiple individuals (seven offended people), in a period of storm included from 2020 until the year 2022.
Specifically, the Commission was contested by the suspects, according to a tested and profitable modus operandiof at least five operations committed through the use of IT tools, such as to err in error the potential victims unaware of “actual scam intentions of those who offer assets for sale without some intention to deliver them“.
The scheme, now well tested, consisted in proposing for sale, through the web, affection animals, in this case small dogs (poodle puppies, Yorkshire, etc.), at extremely affordable prices; Once the announcement has been published, the suspects, who passed off for managers of a dog breeding of such breeds, were contacted by the potential victims who, once the price was agreed and viewed through the web the image of the puppy purchased online, proceeded to make payments on special wire transfers on mediating current accounts, without ever receiving the promised and purchased animal.
The booty made consisted, from time to time, in various hundreds of euros, so as to make the illegal activity highly profitable and profitable.
Both suspects, however, were already definitively sentenced for similar activities in previous years.
The investigations consisted in the analysis of bank transactions, current accounts and related movements associated with them as well as identification, through the declarations made by the offended people and contacts that occurred during sales, of the subjects who had carried out these criminal conduct.