Serious fraud, improper use and forgery of credit and payment cards, self-laundering. These are the accusations that led to the arrest of two suspects by the Milan Finance Police together with the Lombardy Postal and Communications Police Department.
One of the two is also the recipient of a preventive seizure decree on assets and availability for about 100 thousand euros.
The two men are believed to be the perpetrators of numerous scams carried out through fake movable and real estate auctions: they had created bogus web domains and email addresses in which non-existent law firms were recalled, also using counterfeit documentation that reported the names of magistrates actually in service; they had also activated various telephone accounts and opened current accounts in the name of unsuspecting people who were headed by national and foreign online banks, accounts that were used to receive transfers from the victims of scams, convinced that they were paying sums as a deposit for the purchase of real estate and cars.
To finish the tour, the proceeds of the scams were diverted to current accounts in a German bank and registered in a well-known US crypto-currency exchange.
(Unioneonline / ss)