US EditionMan Fakes Complete Blindness for Over 50 Years to Collect Disability Payments
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The case of a 70-year-old man, of whom the identity was not revealed, caused indignation among the community of the municipality of Arzignano, Italy, after local authorities confirmed that this person pretended to have a visual disability to receive financial help.The details of his story were made known by the Adriatic Stream medium.The regional newspaper recently reported that the citizen scammed the state for more than four decades.However, t…
He was discovered handling dangerous tools and carefully selecting fruits in a market.In the last five years he had received more than $200,000 in subsidies.
For more than two months, several officers followed the defendant and recorded him while performing various tasks without assistance and with apparent normality, such as gardening with dangerous tools.
Police documented on video how the man went to the market to buy fruits and vegetables, personally selecting products and manipulating notes and coins to make payments
The survey in Vicentino. He was receiving a disability benefit for absolute blindness but he was shopping and gardening (ANSA)
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