Venice, an unfaithful broker disappears with three million euros: ten of scammed
By now I am destined to die, we still do not have the total account but it seems that they all correspond to the same profile, more or less: third generation workers and retirees, over 60, with a certain sum aside, perhaps also thanks to the severance pay, which they ended up “Investire ”with Rigato between 100 and 300 thousand euros. We talk differently about people and therefore the amount stolen already exceeds three million euros. Tomorrow, perhaps, we will take another step closer to the real total, thank you all ‘meeting from Codacons to Ponte San Nicol, in the Paduan area (at 5.30 pm, in the hall of the Marconi hotel), but in the meantime already after the first reports the vice president of the association, the lawyer Bruno Barbieri, able to recognize a pattern in the broker’s behavior Enrico Rigato, the 54-year-old financial promoter who has been missing for days after some of his clients started to smell a scam; it seems that everything arose from the suspicions of some customers who, worried about the current economic situation, had asked Rigato to return them the entire sum they had entrusted to him – as mentioned, usually between 100 and 300 thousand euros – just to have in response justifications and excuses.
He denounces them
Soon word of mouth has multiplied the reports and the alleged scammers have changed the telephone number to contact, no longer the broker but directly the Guardia di Finanza, which has been collecting complaints and testimonies for days: They continue to arrive, we are not yet at the emissions to arrive, but they are now several destined – they also repeat from the command of Mirano – At the moment in the middle of the investigations. Rigato disappeared from his home in Vigonovo (just in time to dodge a picket of angry people in front of the house and the crew of Strip the news)it is not even found in that of the Vicenza area and in the meantime the yellow flames have taken advantage of it for seize computers and phones found in the two residences, looking for documents and data that can clarify the actual position of the promoter, who is not clear if he worked as a total independent or relying on some reality.
A familiar face
Some of his clients introduced us the papers that Rigato had made them sign, headed with the Barclays bank logo, but it was possible that they were homemade sheets. – continues Barbieri, who experts to recommend this to all those who will present themselves at the Marcon hotel tomorrow to also bring products and received – We are also trying, with our tools and ours, to reconstruct the movements present from the 54-year-old, each piece of paper useful in this sense. Codacons has not only drawn an identikit of the average scammer, it has also recognized the already known figure of the pro-scammer: They are usually independent, who work by word of mouth and who for years move according to the rules. Then a negative spike on the stock market, like the war in Ukraine now, and they find themselves managing major holes, if one of the customers is afraid of it and asks for all the money back, everything collapses. Rigato’s years of regular work are confirmed by everyone, in fact, even the mayor of Vigonovo, Luca Martello, remembers him as a reliable-looking person: We didn’t attend the same tours but I knew him by sight, he seemed an honest worker. No one has come to the town hall yet, perhaps out of shamebut I hope that fewer and fewer of my fellow citizens end up in similar traps.
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March 29, 2022 (change March 29, 2022 | 07:38)
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