2026-05-01 18:00
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2026-05-01 18:00
The Italian Financial Guard, with the support of Polish services, dismantled a criminal group specializing in luxury car fraud, the ANSA news agency reported on Friday. The cars were exported to Poland. Charges were brought against nine people.
As explained by the agency, the operation was carried out by the Financial Guard of Varese, coordinated by the Public Prosecutor's Office in Busto Arsizio in northern Italy with the support of the Polish authorities and the European Union Agency for Justice Cooperation in Criminal Matters, which helps EU countries fight serious cross-border crime.
During the investigation, a fraud mechanism was recreated, based on fake bank checks and the so-called spoofing, a cybercrime technique that involves falsifying the sender's identityso that the victim believes that the contact comes from a trusted source. Victims of this crime were induced to sell their vehicles after alleged false bank verifications.
ANSA added that the cars were then “cleaned” in terms of documentation and exported to Poland.
18 cars with a total value of approximately PLN 800,000 were recovered. euro, which have already been returned to their owners. (PAP)
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