They have scored over 150 scams in religious institutes and retirement homes throughout Italy.

With this charge, dozens of people are being investigated between Syracuse and Turin for criminal association. The carabinieri are carrying out in these hours, as part of an investigation coordinated by the Prosecutor's Office of Syracuse, the measures of obligation of residence and various searches.

According to the investigators, the modus operandi was this: the suspects, pretending to be employees of banks or charities, contacted the institutions to report that they had been allocated state funds or anonymous benefactors.

To receive the money, however, they had to pay a sum of between one thousand and three thousand euros into the current accounts of accomplices. The reason? An alleged return of excesses credited in error. In this way they would be able to make profits of 254 thousand euros.

(Unioneonline / D)