Children of the Italian Country targeted by the fake defense minister in the suspected Amnesty International fraud process

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The commercial elite in Italy was exposed through a fraud that used an artificial voice created by intelligence that mimics Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto to demand intelligence to deliver millions to bank accounts abroad to help pay a ransom to the liberation of Italian journalists who kidnapped them abroad.

The fraud operation targeted some of the most powerful commercial barons in Italy, including President Birily Marco Tronechiti Brevira, fashion designer Giorgio Armani, Founder of Prada Patricio Bertele, Malik Todd Dela Valley, former Milliar Milliar Massimo Moratti and members of Pelioneer Beretta and Minarene families, a person who has knowledge said. By investigation.

While many were immediately, at least one was persuaded to transfer a million euros to bank accounts abroad, after he assured her that it would be compensated by the Bank of Italy later to pay. Until now, three businessmen in Milan submitted official complaints to the city’s public prosecutor’s office, including the person who was a victim of fraud.

Fraud authorities say that fraud included multiple rounds of calls from people who are raised as CROSETTO employees and the clear use of Amnesty International to simulate Crosetto in a convincing manner. Objectives were said that the government of Prime Minister Georgia Meloni needed to help them save the Italian journalists who were kidnapped in the Middle East.

“The voice of the minister has been cloned,” said an official at the Ministry of Defense. “He was asking for money to pay a ransom for Italian journalists who were kidnapped in the world. Crosetto said,” I can’t pay the ministry’s money, but you will return the money from the bank of Italy. “It was a trick. This was not true.”

Investigators said that calls appear to come from phone numbers belonging to the employees of the Minister of Defense – which they believed were cloned.

The fraudsters moved a few weeks after the negotiation of Meloni’s government on Mubadin al -Mubadala, a high -level hostage, in which a young Italian journalist, Cecilia Sala, was released from the famous Evin prison in Tehran, in exchange for the return of an Iranian engineer who is required in the United States to obtain a complex plan of aircraft technology drone The United States for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.

Crosetto first seemed to warn a “dangerous fraud” in a post on social media last week, saying that he wanted to raise public awareness so that “no one is at risk of falling into the trap.”

The minister said that he first discovered the fraud after contacting him by a prominent businessman who had not previously met him who transferred a large amount to a bank account detailed by “General Giovanni Montelano” after he spoke to a person who was convinced that the businessman was convinced was Crosto himself.

Crosto said that he later received calls from many of the major entrepreneurs who were called by people claiming to be members of his employees who are trying to organize the rescue of Italian journalists in the Middle East.

On Friday, the Bank of Italy warned that the fraudsters were using its name and slogan incorrectly to prepare them that the central bank would pay the money that wealthy entrepreneurs invested as contributions to the fake rescue scheme.

The statement said: “Banca d’Talia in no way is not related to any of these requests,” he warned people against responding and reporting such initiatives to the relevant authorities.

The commercial elite in Italy is not the first to be targeted by fraud that feeds on wealthy individuals who are eager to carry out good confidentiality of a government seeking to save the hostages.

A decade ago in France, more than 150 company heads, heads of state, ambassadors and religious leaders were contacted in a bold fraud process when a man claimed to be then French Defense Minister Jean -Yves Le Drien millions of euros in favor of the supreme government operations, including the liberation of journalists The French who were hostage in Syria.

Although most of them felt something, the fraudsters managed to raise $ 85 million, including approximately $ 20 million from late Aga Khan, the world’s Ismaili leader in the world. Leader Gilbert Chicli, an Israeli Franco, was convicted of multiple charges of fraud in 2020 and sentenced to 11 years in prison.

Participated in additional reports from Juliana Recusie