- The Italian police arrested twelve people and investigate another thirty.
- They promised nationality to pay fewer taxes or obtain an exemption from the Covid vaccine.
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They rip off 700 people with an invented state in Antarctica
Twelve people have been arrested and thirty are being investigated in Italy for having invented the "Antarctic Theocratic State of San Giorgio" with which they scammed nearly 700 people by promising nationality to be able to pay fewer taxes, have passports, land, and even receive titles nobles.
The operation, called "The island that does not exist", was launched by the Catanzaro Police, in the Calabria region, in April 2021 after a search of a building that had been indicated as the diplomatic headquarters of the fictitious State.
The criminal network made believe that this nation existed with autonomous sovereignty and privileges "under the Antarctic Treaty of 1959" and took care of carrying out the procedures to give nationality to whoever requested it, in exchange for between 200 and 1,000 euros. In about a year, the members had raised about 400,000 euros.
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The police report that, in addition to having created a website on the State, they had launched the publication of an Official State Gazette and the creation of various institutions, such as the Presidency, the Court of Justice, and the Supreme Court, delegations territorial.
In this way, they would have cheated people to whom they offered the most disparate advantages: from the possibility of receiving funding for their research projects, benefiting from a more agile bureaucracy for their companies, or using State documents to move freely in Italy and in abroad, to the possibility of allowing foreign citizens to enter the national territory or obtaining an exemption from vaccines for Covid.
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The most attractive benefits would have been those related to the reduction of taxes, and in at least two cases, there was the sale of land accompanied by the respective title of nobility.
Among the twelve detainees, under house arrest, is the former general of the Financial Guard Mario Farnesi, 72, who was the "operational reference of all the branches of the Theocratic State" and author of the false documents to obtain nationality.
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