Naples - The search is on for the printing press of the counterfeit 50 and 20 euro notes that are circulating in the streets of Naples and the province after the seizure of 80 thousand euros from the 70-year-old criminal Giovanni Gallotti.
The elderly offender will be questioned today in prison and it is hoped that he will be able to provide useful information to the investigation. The man is an old acquaintance of the police force having been part of the gang of elderly scammers from the Sanità district arrested in 2017 for a series of robberies in Liguria and Northern Italy.
The gang with the scam money treated themselves to luxury vacations in the Maldives and then bragged about it on social media.
Now the agents of the Flying Squad who arrested Gallotti are trying to trace the entire chain of counterfeiters: from the printing house, to the couriers (as in the case of the elderly man arrested), to the distributors, to the recyclers and finally to the spenders.
Giovanni Gallotti had 80 thousand counterfeit euros in 20 and 50 euro notes
The man was stopped in the Porta Nolana area with €25.000 in €50 bills , all counterfeit and bearing the same serial number. At home, he had another stash of carefully hidden counterfeit bills worth a total of €56.810. The total amount seized thus exceeds €80.
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This article is about a very serious matter, but there are many questions that can be asked. Why do people continue to commit scams? And how do they print fake banknotes? I hope that the authorities can stop these illegal activities.