The carabinieri of the Osimo Company (An), together with their colleagues from Naples and Bagnoli, arrested a 38-year-old and a 45-year-old in the Campania capital who were held responsible for numerous scams against the elderly committed between Marche, Abruzzo and Puglia.
The provision, issued by the investigating judge of the Court of Ancona at the request of the local prosecutor’s office, came at the conclusion of the investigations carried out by the Osimo carabinieri, who reconstructed a series of scams on the elderly carried out in about four months in the Marche region, but also in Abruzzo and Puglia.
The investigations started from the scam suffered by an 83-year-old woman who had given jewels worth 500 euros to the criminals, the sum required to pay a non-existent fine for a traffic violation committed by her nephew. The military reconstructed as many as forty episodes, 37 consummated and 3 attempted scams, between November 2023 and February 2024.
The modus operandi was always the same: an accomplice, based in Naples, contacted the elderly victims on a landline telephone and, qualifying himself as a police marshal, financier or post office employee, managed to convince them that they should deliver to a colleague money or jewels needed for bureaucratic procedures, legal expenses or compensation for road accidents suffered by some of their relatives, which in reality never occurred.
The two arrested men had the role of going to the victims’ homes and withdrawing the sums of money: one acted as driver and “poster”, the other physically took care of the collection. For trips from Campania, different vehicles were always used, mainly large, rented cars. Investigations aimed at identifying the accomplices of the scammers are still ongoing. The amount of the stolen sums is around 200,000 euros overall.
The 40 contested crimes were committed in the Marche, Abruzzo and Puglia, with 17 scams in the province of Ancona alone: 2 in the capital, 5 in Jesi, 3 in Fabriano, 2 in Loreto, 1 in Falconara Marittima, Osimo, Montemarciano , Filottrano, Cerreto d’Esi.
5 hits were scored in Abruzzo, in the Chieti area: 3 in Vasto and 2 in San Salvo. In Puglia the scammers struck 6 times: 2 in Ostuni and Manfredonia, 1 in Bari and Sternatia.
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