Giugliano. Over the past weekend, the Agents of the Angri Highway Police Subsection arrested a fifty-year-old from Giugliano accused of the crime of “falsification of a public document” by misleading a public official, the fictitious owner of over 300 vehicles.
The order of precautionary custody in prison was issued by the GIP of the Court of Naples at the request of the Neapolitan Public Prosecutor's Office. Only a few months ago, exactly on 11.03.2020, the same Agents in execution of another precautionary custody order requested by the Naples Prosecutor's Office, arrested OB, a sixty-year-old from Caserta who was the fictitious owner of approximately 700 vehicles, all of which are still being seized.
The mechanism of fictitious registration usually involves an agreement (“pactum sceleris”) between two parties, one party represented by individuals normally involved in crime and the other by individuals, also known as 'front men' or 'figureheads', who, in exchange for paltry sums of money, allow cars and motorbikes to be registered in their names, which are then used by both Italian nationals and people from Eastern Europe or North Africa, not only for the commission of crimes, ranging from theft, to robberies, to drug trafficking and dealing, but also to use vehicles that are essentially 'ghost', registered fraudulently and therefore not actually attributable to anyone.
These vehicles do not give rise to liability for their drivers, starting with the burden of paying 'fines', motorway tolls etc., and above all for the lack of insurance coverage for civil liability, with even more serious consequences when the vehicles are involved in road accidents with even fatal injuries.
The proceedings originate from the report drawn up by the police regarding a theft committed at the Pompei motorway junction in the car of a Belgian woman from which a bag had been stolen. Subsequent investigations made it possible to ascertain that the theft had been committed by unknown persons travelling in a car filmed by the CCTV cameras present on site. Checks of the police databases revealed that the same car had been checked previously because the driver, of Roma ethnicity, had resisted a public official on that occasion and fled.
Subsequent checks carried out on the car in question allowed to ascertain that it was registered to BC, the recipient of the precautionary measure. Subsequent investigations allowed to verify that BC was the owner of 344 vehicles.
For these reasons, the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Naples and the Agents of the Angri Subsection have reported several front men for forgery of a public document with misleading of the public official (articles 110, 81cpv, 48 and 479 of the penal code) and requested against them an order of blocking of the registry to be notified to PRA, Civil Motorization and Chamber of Commerce to prevent the sale. Further investigations are underway to track down the numerous fictitious owners.
Article published on 30 June 2020 - 15:50
