The prison doors have opened for Alessandro Di Capua, the broker from Nuoro who was placed under house arrest on Tuesday. The man escaped today and was caught far from the place where he was supposed to stay, so the doors of the Badu'e Carros prison have opened for him.
"If you don't pay the bills right away, you will be reported to the Revenue Agency." "You risk being inspected if you don't pay." These are some of the threats used by the broker to convince the unfortunate people he had defrauded to hand over money. This was the method used by Alessandro Di Capua, 38, who ended up under house arrest on Tuesday on charges of aggravated fraud, extortion and impersonation.
The man, who worked in the insurance sector, had managed to gain the trust of several victims thanks to his profession, but subsequently exploited this position to commit a series of fraudulent crimes. He would contact his victim by telephone, obscuring the telephone number and altering the tone of voice, and passing himself off, depending on the case, as the “Commander of the Guardia di Finanza” or the “Vice-Prefect” or the “official of the Revenue Agency” and asked for sums of money, which had to be delivered through the arrested broker, in order to quickly define their position and without further “aggravations”.
Among the defrauded people there would also be a priest. At the moment, a first estimate of the sums illicitly obtained by the subject, based on the investigations carried out to date, is around 100 thousand euros. The fraudulent methods to obtain money from the various subjects were multiple. Initially, the customer was approached with the proposal to sign insurance policies. The signed contract, however, was not then sent to the insurance company and the sums paid by the customer were withheld by the scammer.
In the conversation with the client, the broker tried to find out whether the client had any pending tax, civil or criminal matters. In these cases, especially in the case of the most vulnerable individuals, the arrested individual would telephone the unfortunate individual, blocking his or her telephone number. For now, only a few people have been scammed, but according to investigators, there could be many more.