"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 who have been 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 , depending on the case, posing as the “Commander of the Guardia di Finanza” or the “Vice-Prefect” or the “official of the Revenue Agency”, he asked for sums of money, which had to be delivered through the arrested broker, in order to quickly define their position without further “aggravations”. Among the people defrauded was also a priest.
At the moment, an initial 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 subscribe to 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 dialogue with the customer, the broker tried to gather the existence, on the part of the same, of pending tax or civil and/or criminal matters. In these cases, especially with regard to the most vulnerable subjects, the arrested subject contacted the unfortunate person by telephone, obscuring his own telephone number . For now, only a couple of people have been scammed, but according to the investigators there could be many more.
In the investigation, conducted by the Guardia di Finanza of Nuoro and coordinated by the public prosecutors Selene Desole and Sandra Maria Benedetta Picicuto, numerous scams were brought to light. With the order of application of the precautionary measure, the Judge also ordered the interdiction measure of the ban on the exercise of professional activities related to the financial and insurance sector, for a period of 12 months. During the police activities, at the home of the arrested person, approximately 70 grams of narcotic substances mixed with cocaine, morphine and amphetamine were also found, as well as materials for cutting, weighing and packaging them. For this reason, the 38-year-old was also reported for possession for the purpose of dealing.
