Yet another series of scams against the State through the undue obtaining of citizen’s incomeThe carabinieri of Bagnara Calabria they executed two orders for the application of personal precautionary custody issued by the Court of Reggio Calabria, at the request of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, against two local Italian subjects.
From the complex investigative activity carried out by the military of the Arma it emerged that the criminals, in collusion with each other, they allegedly defrauded several fellow citizens as well as the INPS office in Reggio Calabriafor a total sum of approximately 80 thousand eurosthrough a stratagem: first they had the identification documents and the necessary data delivered by the unaware victims, after having misled them and having proposed the achievement of the citizen’s income; secondly, they filled out, on their behalf, the forms necessary to obtain the citizen’s income and sent them online to the INPS computer system. Once the benefits were obtained, with the same artifices and deceptions grafted on the basis of the relationship of trust resulting from the achievement of the aforementioned purpose, they had the legitimate beneficiaries deliver their citizen’s income cards and used them in various commercial establishments in Bagnara Calabra for their own purposes, leaving the former high and dry.
The threat to the victims
One of the victims, having discovered the scam, was allegedly severely threatened and forced not to file a complaint against them. Furthermore, one of those arrested also allegedly unduly received the same benefit, in the period between May 2019 and May 2022, failing to declare a conviction, with a final judgment, for crimes related to narcotics.
The two men are now under house arrest and will have to answer, in different capacities and with different responsibilities, for the crimes of aggravated fraud against the State, undue collection of citizen’s income, impersonation, receiving stolen goods and extortion.