Milan. A scammer. One time he was the one driving the car that hit another parked along the road. The next time he was the one appearing as the woman driving a third car that was involved in an accident.
Inevitably, he was always the lawyer who wrote to ask for damages, but he was also the voice who pretended on the phone to be a Finance Marshal who wanted to take out an insurance policy for his car, which in reality was not just one but several. Most of them with “fixed” documents and license plates, as were, obviously, the documents that he provided from time to time via email to the various insurance companies that had fallen into his trap and the various characters he impersonated, appropriating other people's identities.
A true genius of fraud, according to the Prosecutor's Office very skilled in reporting accidents that never actually occurred and in collecting insurance reimbursements for damages never suffered. A genius who, however, at the trial, in order to defend himself, could do no better than to blame every trick on one of his own employees who was disabled and unable to respond.
Now, however, Michele C., a 44-year-old Neapolitan, risks a sentence of seven years and nine months in prison for having accumulated a series of crimes ranging from insurance fraud (21 scams) to impersonation (14 episodes), up to various degrees of document forgery (on 5 occasions). A professional with several reports behind him but - so far - without any convictions.
According to the reconstruction of the investigators of the judicial police of the Public Prosecutor's Office, the trick worked like this. Mostly pretending to be a financier, C. managed to stipulate via email with various insurance companies (Carige, Zurich, Amissima) policies registered to fictitious people with falsified documents, to protect cars that also had "fake" registration documents or risk certificates.
Then, in various Italian locations, those cars crashed into a parked car without Rca. The detail is crucial, because not having protection, the owner of the damaged car was authorized to apply for reimbursement directly to the insurance of the person who had damaged it.
On behalf of the owner, however, the request was always made by letter from a lawyer. And often the insurance paid, without realizing that in that affair where apparently several parties were involved, in reality the protagonist was only one.
He, under a false name, was the owner of the car that caused the accident. But it was always him, under another false name, the owner of the car that had suffered the damage. He was the fake Finance Marshal who stipulated the policies via email, he again, needless to say, the lawyer who by letter requested payment for the damages.
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