Bank check scam: one of the gang received Citizenship Income. They also collected Irpef refunds

Percepiva il reddito di cittadinanza uno dei destinatari dell’ordinanza cautelare che questa mattina ha portato all’arresto di 11 persone accusate di associazione per delinquere finalizzata alla truffa in danno dello Stato. Nei suoi confronti, spiegano i militari, sarà avviata la procedura amministrativa per la sospensione dell’erogazione del reddito di cittadinanza e per la successiva revoca. Le persone arrestate, tutti italiani di età compresa tra i 25 e i 77 anni, sono state trasportate rispettivamente presso le carceri di Regina Coeli e Poggioreale, e presso i propri domicili. L’inchiesta dei carabinieri della Compagnia Roma Casilina, coordinata dall’aggiunto Lucia Lotti, è partita dall’arresto di un uomo che si era presentato presso un ufficio postale del quartiere romano del Quadraro e, munito di documenti falsi, aveva cercato di incassare credit securities, later revealed to be the object of cloning. During the investigations and further investigations, supported by technical activities of telephone and environmental interception, the Carabinieri managed to identify a criminal organization, mainly made up of people from the Provinces of Rome and Naples, specialized in obtaining false identity documents, so-called 'holy cards', for the purpose of cashing in cloned and stolen credit instruments. In several cases, cashing in of credit instruments was ascertained, which the members of the organization had obtained by presenting themselves at the post office in person, effectively replacing the beneficiaries, thanks to the use of false documents certifying the personal details of the latter. In other cases, when the recipients of the credit instruments, due to their sex and age, could not be 'replaced' by members of the group of fraudsters, the members of the organization made use of third parties, who were hired from time to time to 'play' the role of the beneficiary; the latter, after being provided with false documents, showed up at credit institutions and post offices, where, pretending to be the beneficiaries of the securities, they carried out the operations necessary to complete the transactions. These people, upon successful completion of the operations, were rewarded with percentages of the profit. The most significant movements of money were in turn directed in several tranches to various current accounts and rechargeable cards actually registered to compliant people or to non-existent people for whom false documents had been created. The investigations also made it possible to verify that the false documents and credit securities of illicit origin were procured by the Campania component of the organization, while the collection operations were managed, with the methods described above, by the Roman component mainly in so-called 'locations' identified in Lazio, Sicily and Sardinia. In many cases, the credit titles that were presented for collection were original Irpef refunds, stolen, that never reached the unsuspecting recipients, to whom the news of what had happened was provided without their knowledge by the military.