In the municipality of Borgo Virgilio in northern Italy, law enforcement uncovered a 57-year-old man who had been appropriating his deceased mother's pension, whose body he had kept in the basement for three years, reports Corriere della Sera.
An Italian man continued to receive his mother's pension for three years after her death without informing the authorities of the situation.
When the deceased woman's passport expired, the resident of Borgo Virgilio decided to wear a dress and wig, and pretending to be his own deceased mother, he went to submit documents for a new passport.
Municipal department staff called law enforcement, who discovered during the investigation that the mother of the 57-year-old man had died in 2022 from natural causes, but he had been appropriating her pension all this time.
The remains of the elderly woman, which had by then already mummified, were taken to the morgue for investigation.
The 57-year-old man may face charges of concealing a body and fraud.
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