Naples – Emeralds, trips to Dubai, televisions, and bribes worth thousands of euros. This is the "price" of an Italian passport for those who could never have obtained one legally: Belarusian oligarchs, Egyptian and Albanian traffickers, and non-EU citizens.
All united by one goal: to enter the Schengen area with false documents, thanks to a criminal organization that for years has “rigged” the procedures with the complicity of public employees and forgers.
The mechanism of the fake
The organization operated on several levels: municipal officials entered into the phantom registers Italian ancestors of foreign citizens, often having lived “two centuries earlier”.
The police attested to false checks on non-existent residences.
The forgers produced credible documents, even with watermarks and holograms.
Customers paid up to 110 euros (one Belarusian businessman shelled out 100 pounds).
The Investigation: Bitcoin and Foreign Languages
The investigation, launched after a similar case in Villaricca in 2023, took months of work: investigators deciphered conversations in Portuguese and other languages and traced Bitcoin payments.
The arrested
The handcuffs were snapped on at dawn in an operation by the Metropolitan Police of Naples, directed by Commander Lucia Rea, by order of the GIP of the Court of Naples North. The charges: criminal association, forgery of a public document and corruption. Here's who ended up in handcuffs:
David Passos Trindade, 33 years old (Brazilian) – The only one in prison, considered a high risk of escape. He passed himself off as an entrepreneur in the precious stone trade, with contacts in Dubai and Amsterdam.
Carmelina Of The Priest, 63 years old – Registry officer of Orta di Atella, accused of falsifying documents to certify non-existent residences.
Julius Mozzillo, 63 years old and Salvatore Aletto, 55 years old – Municipal police officers from the same municipality, complicit in “certifying” false links with presumed Italian ancestors.
Anna Perrotta, 66 years old – Registry officer of Frattaminore, involved in the same fraudulent system.
Gaetano Rispoli, 69 years old – Former printer, “master” of forgeries: he reproduced certificates with maniacal precision.
Henry D'Ambrosio, 48 years old – Technician specialized in printing on anti-counterfeit cards.
Renato Jueno Martins, 37 years old – He found “fake addresses” to make residences appear to have never existed.
"Behind a fake passport, there's more than just a document: it's the entry into Europe of people often linked to organized crime ," explains an investigator. This major operation dismantles a system that risked becoming a revolving door for traffickers and money launderers.
(in the photo from left Carmelina Del Prete, Silmara Fabotti, Giulio Mozzillo, Salvatore Aletta and Flavio Alan Yogu)
The article presents a very complex and worrying situation regarding the falsification of documents. It is incredible how public officials can be involved in these illegal activities and put national security at risk. The investigations seem thorough.