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It was the darkish hair on the again of the neck, arms and chin of the aged girl renewing her identification card that first tipped off authorities to an alleged crime and led to the arrest of a 57-year-old man in northern Italy.
The man, whose title has not been launched by authorities, is the son of Graziella Dall’Oglio, who died in 2022 at age 82 within the city of Borgo Virgilio, shut to the town of Mantua, a spokesperson on the Mantua police precinct informed NCS on Tuesday.
Police say the man, a former nurse who’s presently unemployed, didn’t report her dying to authorities.
When the aged girl’s identification card expired, the son placed on make-up, a wig and her garments so as to pose as his mom and renew her card – one thing that should be accomplished in individual in Italy, the spokesperson stated.
However, the agent who processed the applying suspected foul play and notified authorities, who known as the alleged Mrs. Dall’Oglio again to the municipal workplace.
Surveillance footage of the parking zone reveals that the man drove to the workplace dressed as his mom, although she didn’t maintain a driver’s license. Police met him there, the spokesperson stated.
Officers then went to the aged girl’s dwelling tackle and located her mummified physique within the laundry room closet, wrapped in sleeping baggage, they added.
The man is accused of concealing a corpse, fraud in opposition to the state, impersonation, and forgery of a public doc, the spokesperson stated.
He is accused of eradicating fluids from his mom’s physique with a syringe to stop decomposition, and an post-mortem has been ordered to decide how she died.
He stays in a neighborhood jail as prosecutors await the outcomes of the post-mortem, the police spokesperson informed NCS.
State pension fraud is frequent in Italy, with dozens of individuals arrested yearly for impersonating somebody who has died to acquire their pension, in accordance to statistics from the Italian monetary crime police, recognized as the Guardia di Finanza.
As the nation’s dying registries and public providers should not at all times in sync it could actually take years to report deaths, which implies that pension checks proceed to be despatched out till somebody notifies the native pension workplace from which they’re dispatched.