New trend in the so-called "bone breaker" insurance scam in Palermo. While trials with first and second degree convictions are still underway, the agents of the Brancaccio police station arrested eight people and served 23 warranties.
The eight arrested are accused, in various ways, of being part of an alleged criminal association which, between 2017 and 2020, allegedly made itself responsible for a series of scams against numerous insurance companies relating to false road accidents, all with injuries. and fractures to the damage of dozens of victims, procured with violent methods.
The accidents all had the same script, the victims reported being run over while riding their bicycles along the city streets.
The economic "turnover" that would have been managed by the organization was more than a few million euros that the insurance companies paid, as compensation, for the serious injuries suffered by the complainants. The investigations made it possible to block the liquidation of some compensation for false accidents requested from the companies for hundreds of thousands of euros. The state police operation was carried out in Palermo and in the provinces of Novara, Turin, Vercelli, Milan and Varese.
At the head of the organization, according to what was ascertained by the police investigations, there would be Vincenzo Maccarrone, Giuseppe Zizza and Matteo Corrao.
The investigating judge for the three has validated the arrests and arranged for Maccarrone and Zizza to be arrested in prison, and for Corrao to be home arrested. For two other suspects the precautionary measure of the obligation of presentation to the judicial police while the other three suspects were released.
Only for the compensation practices identified for the alleged false road accidents, which represent a small part of the numerous accidents that would have been organized and managed by the criminal association, the turnover was very significant, almost two million euros. Of these, compensation for about 700 thousand euros was paid by the companies, while investigators managed to block compensation for an amount of one million euros.
