A man, dozens of identities, millions of euros disappeared. The true story of “GP”, an Italian Italian scammer, sentenced to France and ready to return to Italy. A film scandal.
Forget Anna Sorokinaka Anna Delvey, the brilliant scammer that a dozen years ago deceived New York that counts, pretending to be a rich German heiress, so much so that he deserves to be told by the TV series “Inventing Anna”. Also forget Frank Abagnalewho in the sixties started traveling the world in Auto-Stop disguised as a pilot of the Pan-Am, and along the road he managed to collect 3 million dollars of false checks, inspiring Steven Spielberg to shoot the film “Try to take me”, with Leonardo Di Caprio.
Today there is an Italian who beats various racing both Anna and Frank. And also its history, objectively, it would deserve a film. His name in the abbreviation is GP: The real one is not important, and moreover he says almost nothing to the Italian judicial chronicles. This is how our justice, if a secondary procedure is excluded, has not yet dealt with the bottom of his art: scam. After all, for at least ten years, GP has completed his incredible financial fraud especially elsewhere.
Born 49 years ago in Southern Italy, a training (perhaps) from IT engineerGP has expressed its creative flair in at least four continentsbouncing like the crazy ball of a flipper from England to the United States, from Japan to Turkey, from Canada to Hong Kong, also passing – in alphabetical order – for Algeria, Austria, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, India, Iran, Liechtenstein, Spain, Switzerland and Zambia.
In almost each of these countries, between 2016 and 2024, GP has done dozens of victims. Wherever it has deceived natural persons and large and small societies, subtracting them millions of euros and dollarseach time assuming a different identity e pretending to be the CEO of large companies active in oil tradingbased between Switzerland and Hong Kong, but also a rich German baronor a Knight of Maltaand even a Templar of England.
This, at least, is the complex path that managed to reconstruct the Court of Appeal of a city in southern Francethat the 21 October 2024 ha definitively sentenced to three years of imprisonment: a penalty that man is currently serving in Parisian prison of Fleury-Merogiswith its over 4,000 prisoners the largest prison in Europe.
And it is precisely for this reason that the story of GP emerges today. Because now the study of theLawyer Daria Pesceamong the best known Milanese criminal lawyers, he is trying to make him serve in Italy. The transfer request, presented to our Ministry of Justice after the sentence in France, was sent to the Government of Paris and now only the decision of the Ortralpe magistracy. It should arrive in a few months, perhaps already after the summer.
“It is a difficult procedure,” he says to Panorama.it the lawyer Pesce, “but my client has every right to be transferred to a Italian prison. It is thus based on our criminal code, and the Milan Court of Appeal also established it, to which I had asked that GP was tried in Italy at the time: on that specific point the response of the judges had been negative, but the request that could be held in a Milanese prison had been accepted “.
The lawyer Pesce describes his client as “A very intelligent and particularly nice man, as well as elegant and distinct». In the French sentence we read that GP “led a sumptuous lifestyle», Made of luxury car (the investigators counted at least three Jaguar and seven Aston Martin), of Large five -star hotels and of movements on private jets: a single air rental company certified that GP spent almost 74,000 euros in three monthsand one of his first arrests took place in February 2019 to the Parisian airport of The bourgetjust as he got off the lineup of a private flight.
Also to manage his many identities, GP had at least 14 different credit cards and multiple Foreign accounts. Thanks to these details, as well as his Perfect English accent and a impeccable FrenchGP presented himself to his victims with the aesthetics of a High border financial intermediarymore than reliable and able to guarantee loans for very high amounts. At that point, it was enough for him to ask for funds, securities or goods, and he seized it and then disappeared.
In the French process, GP initially has denied any chargethen he admitted only a minimum part of the scams contested, motivating them with “A moment of financial difficulties in its activity in the oil sector”. The sentence reads that the accused “He showed a propensity to lie, falsification and dissimulation of everything that could cloud his image”: an analysis that seems to refer to a sort of narcissisma psychological trait in its way typical of the great scammers of history, who in their daily game of mirrors end up almost to really convince the role played. His same lawyer does not hide a certain degree of admiration: “Even if his capacity for conviction is anomalous and turned to a not exactly commentable use”admits Daria Pesce, “It is impossible for me not to appreciate it”.
French investigators have ascertained that i GP computer contained over 70,000 IT files and the cards of at least 350 “customers” who came into business with himand that GP companies marked one “Billing” of almost 16 million euros and 28 million dollars. Yet they have just been 27 GP “customers” who responded to the requests for information from the French court and showed up as victims. The others, perhaps, preferred to avoid the bad advertising deriving from being fallen into the shirts of the great scammer.
In Italy, GP was sentenced in 2022 for the counterfeiting of two passports: the first attributed to him the Nationality of Luxembourg and a false name (and as usual high -sounding), while the other was released in his name by Sovereign order of Malta. But even that document, of course, was a false.
