Giant fraud scam in Italy
A massive police operation called “Tantalo bis” was started in 2018 after Palermo’s District Attorneys office input to stop a very dangerous criminal organization perpetrating insurance fraud by limb amputation of compliant victims.
The Trapani and Palermo (Southern Italy) investigation police offices has brought to light a large number of crimes targeting insurance companies. Hundreds of people weere arrested or are under investigation including a lawyer who was in charge of of those false accidents legal aspects.
The alleged crimes are fraud, conspiracy, aggravated assault, swindle, extorsion and embezzlement.
The injured compliant individuals were usually people in financial need with low or no income and while giving them a little compensation criminal organizations received high reimbursement from insurance companies for serious bodily damage which often consist of permanent disabilities. There are some witnesses that declare about arms and legs broken with bricks and the tariffs paid to the injured : few hundreds euro for an arm, almost one thousand euro for an arm and a leg …. It was a real torture, discovered because one of these poor and desperate persons died in an hospital because of the received injuries
It is estimated that the criminal organizaztion made a profit of over 2.6 milion euros frauding not only insurance companies but also the National Health Service and consequently the entire community-
Operation “Tantalo bis” is involving more than 200 Finance police officers of Palermo and Lecce.
