Genoa – A 26-year-old woman from Nocera Inferiore was sentenced this morning to five years in prison. She was found guilty – through a fast-track trial – of participating in a criminal organization specializing in fraud against the elderly.
The sentence was issued by preliminary hearing judge Giorgio Morando, who accepted the prosecutor's case; deputy prosecutor Francesco Cardona Albini had requested a sentence of four years and four months.
According to the investigation, the young woman is responsible for a total of four incidents in Genoa, Castenedolo, and Cremona, with two scams carried out in the Ligurian capital between March and April 2024. The method appears to be the now well-known one: phone calls to elderly people from an organization based in Campania, with false information about a family member in serious difficulty and a request for "urgent" money to resolve the situation.
At that point, according to the prosecution, the 26-year-old allegedly showed up directly at the victims' homes, posing as a lawyer's secretary, and demanded cash and valuables. In one of the cases—the one that led to the complaint and the launch of the investigation—she allegedly obtained €300 in cash and jewelry with an estimated value of approximately
€20.000 and a debit card, which was then used to withdraw another €7.200. The stolen goods, it is reported, have not been recovered.
The woman, a former inmate in Salerno, followed the reading of the device remotely. Another defendant is also involved in the proceedings, and she has chosen to go to trial.
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It's interesting how crimes always happen the same way, but in the end, not enough is done to stop them. I hope justice takes its course and the victims can receive compensation for what happened.