The Milan State Police, coordinated by the Milan Public Prosecutor’s Office, at the end of an investigative activity launched on the initiative of the German Judicial Authority, arrested, in execution of a European arrest warrant, two German citizens aged 29 and 35 , who had moved to the Lombardy capital to complete a scam of a significant amount.
For some time the German authorities had been investigating some people for numerous scams committed and attempted in that country, with the so-called technique “rip deal”: the suspects came into contact with entrepreneurs who owned start-ups, proposing to finance the entrepreneurial project with large amounts of capital. The ultimate purpose was to access current accounts or wallet of electronic coins which were then emptied with the use of sophisticated software capable of acquiring, or forcing, access credentials.
The latest victim of the scam, which led to the arrest, is a German entrepreneur who had been offered an investment of 2.5 million euros and for whom a meeting had been called in Milan last Saturday 13 April.
The policemen monitored the business meeting, occurred in a restaurant in the Navigli area. At the end of the negotiation, the Flying Squad police checked and identified the two suspects, who were arrested and taken to the San Vittore prison to await extradition to Germany.
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