OSTIA – An Italian prosecutor has requested an indictment of a former policewoman who stole 90,000 euros in money and jewellery, including from the dead, police sources said on Thursday.

 According to Il Messaggero, Agent Daniela R stole a deceased woman’s pension for a year. After having snatched the ATM card and documents of the elderly foreign woman, who died suddenly in her office, the officer collected the deceased woman’s pension month after month until she was caught.

 The police officer adopted a similar technique in the case of a man that died suddenly on the beach, whose assets were entrusted to police by the judicial authority, pending return to his relatives. Armed with a credit card and pin, which were found in the man’s wallet, the officer withdrew 250 euros at a bank counter.

 Among several dozen victims was also a member of the Spada mafia clan, whose 240 euros cash had been seized during a drug check in Dec. 2017. Officers had placed an envelope with the cash in the exhibits office but, like many others, it was later found empty. It was these ongoing disappearances that raised colleagues’ suspicions, particularly the investigators of the Lido Commissariat judicial team. Often the owners of the seized items returned to collect their goods, but would leave empty-handed.

 The former policewoman snatched 31,000 euros in cash, the spoils of ongoing seizures ranging from 15 to 1,500 euros.

 The list of stolen goods, which range from cufflinks, brooches and earrings to diamonds and watches, including a Rolex, were resold to a gold buyer or given as collateral.

 The former agent, who is hoping for a plea bargain reduced sentence, has offered to compensate the victims who have filed a civil action.

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