Man arrested for Mafia victim fraud. For 10 years he convinced his parents to be in contact with the man, who had died long ago, cheating and extorting them 200 thousand euros. The scam went on for ten years, during which Francesco Simone, 44 years old from the small town of Basicò, convinced an old couple to be in contact with his son, who however had died of white lupara twenty-five years earlier.
