(ANSA) - CATANZARO, 18 AUG - They had structured a system capable of building documents and gaining accreditation using a state entity created ad hoc, the "Antarctic Theocratic State of San Giorgio", endowed with autonomous sovereignty, to evade the tax and carry out multiple scams, the organization brought to light by the operation conducted by the State Police of Catanzaro and coordinated by the Prosecutor of the Calabrian capital.
Members of the organization were also exempt from carrying out the Covid vaccine.
The alleged offenses are conspiracy, fraud, manufacture and possession of valid false documents, expatriation and money laundering.
Twelve are the people arrested and placed under house arrest and one subject to the obligation of presentation to the judicial police in the context of the operation called "The island that is not there", conducted by the Digos of Catanzaro with the help of the Central Police Department of Prevention and with the coordination of the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Calabrian capital with the involvement of the Police Headquarters of Cosenza, Genoa, Lucca, Perugia, Padua, Teramo and Trapani and which brought to light the fraud of the Antarctic Theocratic State of S. Giorgio ". The measures were issued by the Gip of the Court of Catanzaro.
The investigation started on 7 April 2021 from a search in a building in Catanzaro indicated as the diplomatic seat of the alleged "State".
Following the investigative investigations, the existence of a criminal association operating throughout the national territory with main territorial nuclei in Catanzaro, Alcamo and Teramo, aimed at committing an indefinite number of frauds based on the scam based on the existence of the "State Theocratic Antarctic of St. George "as a subject endowed with autonomous sovereignty and related privileges" under the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 ".
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