Hides the dead mother to pocket the pension - Veneto

He hid his mother's corpse in the house for at least 5 years, to collect his pension regularly, but in the end he was discovered and reported for fraud.
It was the local police of Verona, yesterday, during a check authorized by the Public Prosecutor's Office, to find the remains of the elderly woman, now mummified. Only after the woman's son, a 60-year-old, spontaneously presented himself to the agents who notified him of the acts of the investigation that see him investigated.
An episode of social degradation, which happened in the capital of Verona. The man's mother had died about 5 years ago, but no one had ever heard about it. The woman had died at the age of 80. But the son, who had abandoned his remains at home, just to ward off suspicion had continued to frequent the apartment. And to collect the old woman's pension with the delegation to the post office.
On the investigation, the Public Prosecutor's Office maintains confidentiality: "the investigation activities continue in these hours under the coordination of the judicial authority.- says the prosecutor Bruno Bruni - Any criminal responsibility will be ascertained only at the outcome of the judgment with irrevocable criminal sentence ". However, the magistrates are also aware that the pension was duly and wrongly received.
The corpse, now mummified, was in an apartment in the Borgo Milano district, on the top floor of a building. To identify him were the agents of the local police led by the commander Luigi Altamura.
The neighborhood policeman had received reports from neighbors of a second home, owned by the man and woman. These complained of strange accesses and suspicious intrusions into the appurtenances of the house. But the son always refused to cooperate to carry out checks: when the policemen asked to speak with the mother who lived in the other house, the man made excuses, saying that the old woman was abroad, in Germany, or on vacation. A suspicious behavior, which led to the issuance of a warrant from the Prosecutor, for access to the house transformed into a tomb. .
The investigation was based on testimonies from neighbors who had not seen the lady for years, despite the fact that her son regularly passed by the house, greeting in a cordial way those he met. To fuel the suspicions - making them become certainties - also the findings on the fact that the elderly woman had not received any medical care for years. She had not been visited by the general practitioner or even purchased medicines or basic necessities. The only movement was the economic one, of retirement. According to initial investigations, the 60-year-old son is not destitute, but has some registered in his name, and led a normal life.