The son Alessandro Ambu has negotiated 3 and a half years immediately closing the judicial procedure, the mother Ermelinda Puddu has preferred to go ahead with the shortened procedure but the substance has not changed: she too will serve an identical sentence for decision, yesterday in Cagliari, of the judge of the preliminary hearings Gabriella Muscas. It is the closure, except for appeals, of the story concerning the two fake gurus of Selargius who, boasting the possession of sensory abilities inaccessible to mere mortals ("I see the black horses announcing your death", said Ambu to an a prayer friend of the mother, indicated as the "operator" of the son's businesses), had taken advantage of the weaknesses of two people aged 61 and 73, both from Quartucciu, obtaining almost 17 thousand euros. Mother and son, 71 and 42, were reported for extortion and then arrested between October and November 2020 by the police. Last March the first sentence, concerning Ambu; yesterday the final stage. The defendant, defended by the lawyer Davide Mascia, will also have to pay a total of 21,600 euros in provisional to the deceived couple, represented by the lawyers Roberto Cao and Simone Vargiu.

False dangers of death

According to what was reconstructed by investigators and the public prosecutor Andrea Massidda through testimonies, kidnappings and investigations by the judicial police, Puddu between October and December 2019 identified the "targets", put them in contact with the "holy man", that is the son, and he tried to get them to do what he said. Ambu in turn "presented" them with "the imaginary danger of death" and "other serious calamities" even for family members if they did not pay out an adequate sum of money to remove the evil eye and save themselves. Fear that pushed the victims to pay what they asked for.

The victim and the scammer
The 71-year-old victim after Puddu's arrest had revealed to the Unione Sarda what he had suffered. "I started going to the house of what I thought was a friend to recite the rosary and I made her a lot of confidences" which, however, the woman had used against her. In fact, «one day a phone call arrived to interrupt the recitation of the rosary: it was George», the name by which Ambu introduced himself, «who knew my worries and my suffering. He told me I had an invoice and that he would take it from me. ' With a painful past, the victim had convinced herself “that was the only way out of this situation. I had death bills in my head and I had to protect myself and my family. He said my second child would have a fatal accident and asked me for 1,300 euros to save him. I borrowed the money from my sister without giving her the reason. " The requests for money came every week, higher and higher. The woman turned to her family and, desperate, opened three financial companies. “He said he saw my 18-month-old granddaughter flying in the sky, that my partner would die on a bicycle. He asked me for 5,000 euros, then another 6,000 ”. Then the confidences with relatives and the intervention of the Police. “Nobody has to go through what I went through. Have the courage to denounce ».
An. M.

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