An entrepreneur was proposing fake investments, arresting four people in Florence
A multi-disciplinarian pretended to be a member of a well-known Florentine entrepreneurial family
He pretended to be a member of a well-known Florentine family and led the victims to make investments with the illicit aim of obtaining money.
This is how the Guardia di Finanza of the Florence Public Prosecutor’s Office executed the custody in prison and all’residence obligation issued by a man believed to be addicted to a series of truffles and others three people considered to belong to a criminal association aimed at the commission of multiple truffles.
The suspects were identified as responsible for numerous truffles, operating in the territories of the provinces of Florence, Milan, Massa Carrara, Livorno and Arezzo and causing huge financial damage to at least 4 entrepreneurs, quantified at no less than 190 thousand euros.
The investigations, carried out by the Guardia di Finanza, made it possible to hypothesize that the suspects repeatedly operated through a proven scheme: they pretended to be presented in person by the top of the organization, who were victims as a member of a well-known Florentine family. Having thus obtained the trust of the victims, the same, with the help of the associates, proposed non-existent investments and entrepreneurial initiatives and with the sole illicit aim of obtaining money.
The proceeding is currently pending in the investigation phase and the actual responsibility of the persons under investigation, together with the validity of the accusations against them, will be examined in the course of the subsequent trial. Further investigative and evidentiary developments are not excluded, also in favor of the persons under investigation.