At 23, he traveled through parishes posing as a priest engaged in social work. And of “colleague” In “colleague» he collected money for the needy when in reality the donations ended up directly in his pockets. A young man from Andria (Bat) was arrested in prison under a custody order issued by the Trani Public Prosecutor's Office (Bat). The boy was already behind bars for another criminal case. The charges this time range from aggravated fraud to identity theft. According to what emerges from the investigation, the 23-year-old young man posed as a priest by deceiving local priests and collecting donations from their parishioners. The false priest struck in Abruzzo, Basilicata, the province of Barletta, Andria, Trani and Bari. Seven attacks have been committed in his name, notably during the Covid-19 pandemic. The latest victim, reports Puglia Sera, is a priest from Canosa di Puglia to whom the 23-year-old presented himself as a parish priest from Taranto in need of help for a single mother. The colleague was deceived into giving him the sum of 7 thousand euros in March two years ago. Realizing that he had been defrauded, the Apulian priest then filed a complaint.
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