Milan: Operation "Mala fides". the Postal Police dismantle a criminal group dedicated to online fraud and scams.
The Postal Police carried out 4 precautionary measures, issued by the GIP of the Court of Milan at the request of the local Public Prosecutor's Office, against as many subjects (specifically two men and a woman were led to prison, while the fourth individual was subjected to the obligation to stay in the municipality of residence) investigated for abusive access to the computer system, self-laundering, facilitation of illegal immigration in competition, illegal entry and stay on the territory of the state.
The investigations, carried out by the Postal and Communications Police Department of Milan, with the coordination of the Central Service in Rome, made it possible to reconstruct 16 illegal accesses, made between April and July 2019, on the online account of a well-known Milanese Accounting Firm, from which over 200 thousand euros were stolen, intended for the payment of salaries, which were then recycled through speculative operations carried out at casinos and casinos located in Veneto and Liguria.
Moreover, the fraudulent method with which the criminal group had already operated in the past, subtracting 230 thousand euros from another company operating in the restaurant management.
But this was only the tip of an iceberg of much wider scope: the repertoire of the criminal group ranged in different branches of the scam, real and "virtual".
The policemen thus discovered that a suspect - as if to retrace the plot of the well-known film "Parasite" - after having specifically published announcements in well-known job vacancies platforms, that is, leaving tickets in door-to-door mode, had managed to infiltrate under the guise of a domestic worker in a home of unfortunate citizens, stealing bank checks which are then collected.
And yet, well-structured online scams, in the sector of the publication of false real estate advertisements for the rental of houses and holiday homes, a phenomenon that targets hundreds of consumers especially during weekdays.
Combined marriages with complacent Italian citizens, and false adoption of foreigners over the age of XNUMX, were also the setting for a scenario of aiding illegal immigration to our country aimed at obtaining fraudulently easy residence permits and even concessions of Italian citizenship (one of the "combined" marriages had, in fact, already been foiled last October, when the Postal Police arrested the promised "bride" and the false wedding witnesses in the act, just as the wedding ceremony was being celebrated in the council hall of the Municipality of Pavia, of course, also the expulsion of three foreigners, including the groom).
With regard to 4 other Algerian citizens, identified in the course of today's operations and irregular results on the national territory, expulsion procedures have been initiated with the Immigration Office of the Varese Police Headquarters.
With reference to the management of online current accounts, the Postal Police invites companies and citizens to maintain a high level of attention, activating appropriate mechanisms for checking outgoing transfers in order to check the progress of transactions in real time.
The Postal Police of Milan conducted the investigations with the Deputy Prosecutor Dr. Enrico Pavone, coordinated by the Deputy Prosecutor Dr. Eugenio Fusco, head of the IV Department of the local Public Prosecutor's Office at the Ordinary Court of Milan.