€200,000 paid over five years to help a man from Sassari. Until the benefactor, a 70-year-old from Mores, seeing no return on the loan, decided to report the matter to the Carabinieri. And it was on suspicion of fraud that the Carabinieri arrested a 46-year-old man last Thursday in a bar in Carbonazzi, Sassari, who had just received the last sum: €250.

The man, represented by Marco Manca, was taken to Bancali and released today by investigating judge Sergio De Luca, who rejected prosecutor Maria Paola Asara's request for detention. Instead, he ordered the arrest to be validated and ordered him to sign in at the Carabinieri station. This is the first judicial chapter for the suspect, who, during the disputed period, allegedly defrauded the elderly man by demanding money, which the victim would pay directly, with the man issuing a receipt, or into a postal account held in the name of the 46-year-old's partner.

The excuses he used to obtain the money varied widely, from the need to overcome a difficult time following the loss of his parents, who were in fact alive, to the need for supposed renovations to a house. Always with the promise of repaying the money, including interest, as soon as he sold a fictional home. No extortion or threats, as far as we know, but just reiterated requests, inventing needs and urgencies that supposedly didn't exist. Finally, the 70-year-old had to say enough, realizing he had fallen for the scam, and filed a complaint, hoping perhaps to receive the money back, or at least part of it.

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