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He had started to empty the bank account of an unsuspecting tourist, the 40-year-old who, with the credit card stolen from the unfortunate victim, had given himself up to shopping in the streets of the center of the capital. It was only thanks to the report of a financial services company, for the purchase of a luxury watch, that the Carabinieri began to follow the trail of payments and track down the South American.
With the report of the suspicious purchase of the luxury watch, investigations began in the wake of the payments with the stolen card
He couldn’t resist and bought a watch worth over 10 thousand euroswith a stolen credit card, the 41-year-old South American, reached the precautionary measure of arrests and prison, after investigations by the Carabinieri.
It was precisely that luxury shopping in a jewelery shop in the center of Rome, which framed the suspect, who allegedly passed the stolen credit card to an American tourist, for a single maxi purchase of 13 thousand euros for the precious watch.
It wasn’t long after the purchase that a company operating in financial services raised the alarm about that suspicious operation, triggering investigations by the Carabinieri of the Operational Unit of the Roma Centro Company.
The purchase made in May 2023 thus brought the military back inside the commercial establishment where the video surveillance images left no doubt about the identity of the person, who was already present in the law enforcement databases.
The man was recently granted a precautionary custody order in prison, issued by the investigating judge of the Court of Rome. Now the 41-year-old will have to answer for the crime of improper use of credit cards.
