Calvizzano, former Enel employee arrested: mega scam worth over a million euros

This morning, soldiers from the Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza of Naples, directed by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Naples North, executed a precautionary measure of house arrest, issued by the GIP of the Court of Naples North, at the request of the Public Prosecutor's Office of Naples North, against a 50-year-old from Calvizzano, seriously suspected of the crime of fraud against a national electricity supplier.

The investigations, initiated following the complaint filed by the energy supplier against a former employee, allowed us to reconstruct the modus operandi of the suspect and, in particular, to ascertain how the same, by introducing himself to the owners of various commercial activities as a sales agent of companies carrying out energy supply activities and proposing contracts at more advantageous rates than those in progress, induced customers to replace the supplier with one of the companies referable to him, ensuring the payment of money for the provision of the service.

The investigations were carried out by analyzing the copious documentation acquired and by obtaining summary information from the contractors and allowed to ascertain that the person under investigation, after having concluded the contract with the customers, requested the original energy supplier to activate supply relationships, indicating as contractor the companies referable to him, directly or through a third party, and providing as POD (Point of Delivery)
– supply points) the addresses where the premises were available to customers to whom he had offered more advantageous rates.

It also emerged that the defendant, by interposing himself between the provider and the recipients of the service, achieved the result of continuing the supply of energy to the commercial activities with which he had concluded the contracts, withholding the fees regularly paid by the unaware users, without paying anything to the provider and thus generating, at their expense, very high arrears, amounting overall to over 1,2 million euros.

The investigations also revealed that the defendant, in order not to concentrate the new contracts with the utility on a few companies, had established approximately 15 of them, stipulating over 400 contracts at convenient prices for 182 supply points and that, in order to avoid the dunning or disconnection of electricity that would have been initiated by the utility company due to the arrears accrued by the unaware contractors, he had promptly sent the utility requests for contract transfers and/or counterfeit payment slips, certifying the payment of the outstanding amounts.