Rigged sentences and fake accidents: 106 investigated. Here are 3 judges under investigation

A branched network, a well-established system for defrauding insurance companies through fake road accidents and complacent sentences.

This is what emerged from a joint investigation by the Public Prosecutor's Offices of Santa Maria Capua Vetere and Roma, which yesterday led to a blitz in the offices of the Justice of the Peace in via Spartaco and searches in law firms, homes, car registration agencies and even a car demolition between the provinces of Naples and Caserta.

Investigators are targeting 106 people, including three honorary judges, lawyers, experts, doctors, fake witnesses and front men.

The investigation, coordinated by the prosecutor Pierpaolo Bruni and transferred for jurisdiction to the Rome Prosecutor's Office, revolves around the hypothesis of association for crimes aimed at defrauding insurance companies, with an illicit turnover estimated at 2,2 million euros in 2024 alone.

It all started at the end of 2023 from some reports from insurance companies that became suspicious of anomalies in about ten claims, which later turned out to be completely invented.

Among the suspects, the names of stand out: Bruno Dursio (Naples), Rodosindo Martone (Caserta) e Maria Gaetana Fulgeri (Maddaloni), three honorary judges serving at the Justice of the Peace. According to the prosecution, they facilitated “tailor-made” sentences in favor of lawyers and false injured parties in exchange for money and luxury goods, including expensive watches.

Lawyer Giuseppe Luongo, the linchpin of the organization

The core of the organization would have been thelawyer Giuseppe Luongo, assisted by his wife Luigia Daniela Conte and other lawyers: Gabriele Calderone, Giancarlo Salzillo, Salvatore Santagata, Pasquale De Rosa, Michele Zagaria and Bruno Aurora. Their task is to prepare the practices, steer the contacts with compliant doctors and dialogue with the representatives of the insurance companies.

To make the accidents seem believable, non-running vehicles were used, registered to front men and kept in the car wrecking yard managed by Antonio Prova in Parete. The bureaucratic procedures were handled by the agency Rafer Srl of Qualiano, managed by Raffaele Guarino.

The fake accidents were then completed with invented witnesses, fake drivers and injured parties recruited for a fee. Some of them, it was revealed, used counterfeit identity documents.

The role of three technical consultants was decisive: Danilo Lisi, Gianluigi Di Stasio and Luigi D'Amico, accused of having produced false medical reports, attesting injuries that never existed and visits never carried out, thus ensuring huge insurance compensation.

The money, according to the accusations, was collected directly by the lawyers through ad hoc powers of attorney and transferred to accounts registered to nominees, to then be withdrawn in cash at the Lusciano post office, with the complicity of the deputy director Orazio Maccarone, thus evading anti-money laundering regulations.

Part of the sums eventually returned to the availability of the lawyer Luongo through his brother-in-law Alfonso Conte, who returned the funds to his sister with fictitious reasons.

Dismay and disbelief in the Sammaritan legal world, where the three honorary judges were considered respectable professionals. “A cold shower,” is the comment circulating among judges and honorary colleagues. The investigation – which has already shaken the entire judicial and insurance sector of Campania – continues in the utmost secrecy, but appears destined to expand.