Italian police on Friday arrested
four people and placed another 25 under investigation for "very
many" episodes of fraud committed against "weaker categories"
such as the elderly and infirm, police said.
Those involved will face possible charges of conspiracy aimed
at fraud and extortion.
Forty separate crimes were committed in the scam, police
said.
The alleged gang posed as magistrates and police officers and
made phone calls, sent letters and faxes, based on a data base
of likely victims - most of them elderly but also some
professionals - and sold them fake subscriptions to bogus police
magazines, prosecutor Marco Ciacci told a press conference.
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