VENICE | THEY WERE ASKING FOR OFFERS FOR FALSE ONLUS: DISCOVERED BY THE POLICE – ANTENNA TRE
09/30/2021 VENICE – They targeted mainly foreign tourists in the historic center of Venice asking for offers for non-existent charities. They were discovered by the police. || They approached unsuspecting tourists asking for offers and signing donations for charities that actually didn’t exist. The Venice State Police sanctioned a total of twenty people including a minor – men and women all of Romanian nationality – for illegal activities linked to fraud in favor of false ONLUS. An order of expulsion from the Municipality of Venice was also notified to the group, which had the folders with the sheets on which they asked to affix the signatures seized. The scam was discovered during checks carried out by agents in the months of July and August in the places of Venice affected by a high tourist concentration and with a conspicuous presence of foreign citizens. (Report by Filippo Fois)