Italian police report woman, 35, over alleged €1,400 car-rental fraud in Comiso
Investigators in Comiso say a woman from Campania posed as a car-rental operator and induced a man to transfer a €1,400 deposit for a vehicle that was never delivered.
Police in Comiso, in south-eastern Sicily, have reported a 35-year-old woman from Campania to the judicial authorities on suspicion of fraud, saying she presented herself as an operator of a company active in the car-rental sector and induced a man to pay a deposit for a vehicle that was never handed over.
According to the account given by the Polizia di Stato in Comiso and carried by news outlets across the province of Ragusa, the transfer amounted to €1,400 and was requested as an advance on the rental. The vehicle was never delivered. Investigators say the investigation was opened after the victim lodged a complaint over events dating back to last June, and that the inquiries were coordinated by the public prosecutor's office at the court in Ragusa and carried out by officers of the Comiso public security commissariat.
The central facts are consistent across local reporting: the sum involved, the June timeframe, the woman's age and region of origin, and the nature of the alleged deception. The suspect's identity has not been made public, the man who made the payment has not been named, and no company has been identified. Reporting describes the woman as "held to be responsible" and uses conditional language for the alleged conduct, indicating that the allegations have not been established in court. One account describes the offer as plausible enough to persuade the man to proceed with the bank transfer; no further detail on how contact was made has been released.
The woman was reported at liberty, meaning she was not detained. Under the procedure described, the case has been forwarded to the judicial authority as a suspected offence of fraud, with the investigation still at the stage of the complaint and the resulting denunciation. No hearing, charge beyond that initial assessment, or recovery of the money has been reported. The verified position remains that of a single complainant, a single reported suspect, and an inquiry referred onward to prosecutors in Ragusa.