Erika Malandra Mondragone, February 2022. It's cold, but we play anyway. A little game between friends, a soccer field, an injury. So far, nothing strange. But what happens next changes everything.
Traffic cop in trouble for fraud: he invents an accident after his injury on the pitch
A municipal police officer, a traffic policeman, gets hurt while playing.
Nothing serious, it seems. But instead of telling the truth, he shows up at the emergency room of Pineta Grande and declares something completely different: “I was hit by a motorcycle”. He tells the doctor, seriously. Injured, yes. But also smart? The Public Prosecutor's Office of Santa Maria Capua Vetere suspects so. His words end in a report. And that report, it turns out, was used to defraud an insurance company. A fraud? Now the Prosecutor's Office will investigate.
A plan built in detail, but collapsed at the wrong time. Yes, because precisely in those days - the same ones in which the traffic policeman he told of the fake accident, the possible fraud to the detriment of an insurance company? The investigators had begun to wiretap the former commander of the municipal police of Mondragone D. Bomuglia, as reported by casertanews.it. Arrested, today he is under house arrest. The wiretaps also involve the former mayor V. Pacifico and other agents. Does everything add up? Or almost.
Traffic cop scam in soccer: the Prosecutor's Office investigates several incidents
The case is not isolated. Three more names. Another lie. This time the script is move at the emergency room in Sessa Aurunca. There, according to the investigation, another fake accident. Another sport. Basketball. And once again, a truth hidden under a story artfully constructed.
According to the Carabinieri, coordinated by the Sammaritan Prosecutor's Office, the dynamics are similar: a real injury, but during a game. However, it is told as a road accident, to obtain compensation. No movie-like twists. No spectacular falls on a motorbike. Only balls, trainers and falsified reports.
Today, those names – and those versions – are being examined by the judiciary. And in the meantime, the question remains unanswered: how far can a lie go, if told with enough conviction?