He was married to his caregiver but did not know it. Victim is an over eighty year old from Taranto, a retiree of the Navy and suffering from cognitive impairment, cheated by his assistant and her partner.
The two took possession of the old man's assets, an apartment and 200 thousand euros. The woman and her partner were arrested and placed under house arrest.
The investigations were triggered after the complaint of a granddaughter of the elderly. The pensioner, widower and childless, had resorted to the caregiver in 2018. And she immediately put the relatives out the door, telling her niece not to go near her uncle, effectively preventing her from entering the house and blocking her contact on the phone of the elderly.
The woman lived with a professional from Taranto, but from February she was married in a community of property regime with the elderly assisted, who was unaware of everything and had also transferred to her the bare ownership of the prestigious appraisal in which he lived.
Not only that: the victim had been pushed to transfer his car to the caregiver's son, to buy an additional car and to pay off postal certificates of deposit for the amount of 56 thousand euros. Also to close your current account to open another one jointly with the caregiver, from which 94 thousand euros are withdrawn.
Caregiver who took the man's pension in cash every month, 2 thousand euros, and used his debit cards to make transfers for over 81 thousand euros.
A mega scam unearthed by the investigators and the victim's niece. To the detriment of those responsible, a preventive seizure was also carried out for over 200 thousand euros.
(Unioneonline / L)
