The Colombian Navy, in an operation coordinated with the Investigation - CTI (Technical Investigations Corps) of the Attorney General's Office, arrested an Italian, who allegedly falsified a document that according to him would entitle him to receive part of the estate of the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
The operation was carried out by troops of the Military Gaula (Anti-Extortion and Anti-Kidnapping Group) Bolívar and officials of the CTI, who found the individual at a checkpoint in Cartagena, in which judicial police officers verified his identity and made effective an arrest warrant issued by the Eleventh Municipal Criminal Court of Cartagena, for the alleged crimes of material falsehood in a public document, obtaining a false public document and procedural fraud.
It should be noted that the Italian authorities opened an investigation against this individual for the alleged crime of falsehood. In the same way and according to the reports of the investigation, this document would have false stamps of the first notary of Cartagena and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia.
According to the Attorney General's Office of the Nation in 2018, this Italian citizen went to a notary office in Cartagena and the National Civil Status National Civil Registry office to request and obtain a civil registry and Colombian citizenship card, with the name of Marco Di Sierra, born in Torino - Italy. He supported the petitions with certifications that supposedly accredited that his mother was Colombian, among other papers. When corroborating the information, it was established that the documentation was not authentic.
Subsequently, according to investigations carried out by the prosecuting institution Marco Di Nunzio in Italy, allegedly claimed hereditary rights to assets of the former Prime Minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi; and of the Italian citizen, Ezio Matteucci. For this purpose, he allegedly used false signatures and seals of the head of a notary office in Cartagena and of the deceased.
The arrested individual and the vehicle in which he was traveling (a van with false diplomatic plates), were put into custody of the authority. Where, at the request of the Prosecutor's Office, a judge gave him imprisonment, for the alleged crimes of procedural fraud in successive homogeneous competition and in heterogeneous competition with the crimes of material falsehood in a public document, falsehood in a private document, obtaining a false public document and false branding.
Source: Press – Navy of Colombia
