{"id":152472,"date":"2025-11-25T06:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T06:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/152472\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T06:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T06:48:08","slug":"pension-fraudster-dressed-as-dead-mother-to-claim-her-payouts-while-her-body-lay-hidden-in-family-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/152472\/","title":{"rendered":"Pension fraudster ‘dressed as dead mother to claim her payouts while her body lay hidden in family home’"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 56-year-old man spent three years impersonating his dead mother to fraudulently collect her pension while her body lay in their family home.<\/p>\n

The fraudster, an unemployed nurse from Mantua, Italy, failed to report his mother’s death when she died at 82 around three years ago.<\/p>\n

Instead of notifying police, he wrapped her body in bedsheets, placed it inside a sleeping bag and concealed it within the family residence.<\/p>\n

He then transformed himself into his mother’s likeness by wearing lipstick and foundation, adorning himself with a pearl necklace and earrings, and trimming his hair to match her style.<\/p>\n

The sick act enabled him to keep receiving her pension, generating around \u00a347,000 per year, and keeping hold of her three-house-strong property portfolio.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, he arrived at a Government office in Borgo Virgilio, a suburb of Mantua, wearing a long skirt and presenting himself as “Graziella Dall’Oglio” to renew her identity card.<\/p>\n

The Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera described his disguise as a “Mrs Doubtfire-style transformation”, referencing the 1993 film starring Robin Williams.<\/p>\n

His elaborate costume included nail varnish and old-fashioned jewellery designed to complete the illusion of being an elderly woman.<\/p>\n

\"Graziella<\/p>\n

Graziella Dall’Oglio’s son transformed himself into his mother’s likeness by wearing lipstick and foundation<\/p>\n

But a Government employee grew suspicious of the supposed elderly woman’s masculine characteristics, including an unusually thick neck and a voice which occasionally dropped to deeper tones.<\/p>\n

The staff member noticed the visitor’s skin texture on their hands appeared inconsistent with someone aged 85, while his facial wrinkles seemed unnatural.<\/p>\n

Francesco Aporti, the mayor of Borgo Virgilio, told Corriere della Sera: “He came into the council offices wearing a long skirt, he was wearing lipstick and nail varnish, a necklace and old-style earrings.<\/p>\n

FRAUDSTERS UNMASKED – READ MORE:<\/p>\n

\"Government<\/p>\n

The scam was uncovered when Ms Dall’Oglio’s son turned up at a Government office in Borgo Virgilio (pictured)<\/p>\n

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“But up close his neck was too thick and his wrinkles were strange, the skin on his hands did not seem to be that of an 85-year-old woman.”<\/p>\n

The concerned employee immediately alerted both police and the local mayor about the suspicious visitor.<\/p>\n

Officers compared official photographs of the genuine Ms Dall’Oglio with images of her son, confirming their suspicions about the impersonation.<\/p>\n

When confronted with evidence of his deception, the man consented to a search of his residence.<\/p>\n

\"Italian<\/p>\n

PICTURED: Italian military police in Bari. In a statement, the Carabinieri said the body was found ‘in a clear state of mummification’<\/p>\n

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Authorities discovered Ms Dall’Oglio’s mummified corpse in the laundry room, wrapped in bedsheets and concealed within a sleeping bag.<\/p>\n

Italy’s military police confirmed in a statement that “the body was in a clear state of mummification.”<\/p>\n

The remains were transported to a local hospital mortuary for post-mortem examination.<\/p>\n

The man faces investigation for illegally concealing a corpse and benefit fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 56-year-old man spent three years impersonating his dead mother to fraudulently collect her pension while her body…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[101542,138,6147,246,1224,111,43,139,69,244,245,51066,255],"class_list":{"0":"post-152472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-benefit-fraudsters","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-finance","12":"tag-italy","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-personal-finance","18":"tag-personalfinance","19":"tag-sgg","20":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}