They were ready to make the retiree's millions disappear: after the two arrests, here are two more precautionary measures.

They had been subtly announced and now they have arrived. These are two new restrictive measures - ordered by the GIP of the Court of Catania at the request of the magistrates of the Catania Prosecutor's Office - which were executed in recent hours by the police officers of the Mobile Squad as part of the investigation for exploitation of incapacity and attempted aggravated embezzlement that last December led to the arrests of the florist Rita Catalano, 65 years old, and the house arrest of the lawyer from the Catania Bar Venera Cosima Nicita, 54.

This time the precautionary custody order was notified to the financial promoter Claudio Iannaci, 53 years old, as well as to the secretary of a notary's office, namely Lucia Letizia Fisichella, 50 years old. For the former, a measure of temporary prohibition from exercising work and professional activities at banking and credit institutions for a duration of twelve months was imposed; for the latter, the obligation to report to the territorial judicial police three days a week was established.

The two are said to have assisted Catalano and Nicita, facilitating their attempt to seize the entire estate of three million euros belonging to a wealthy 85-year-old retiree, a neighbor of the florist and thus targeted by the wrongdoer. Catalano had managed to gain the complete trust of the victim, isolated from the outside world and without even the ability to read her own mail independently, as Rita Catalano had ordered the doorman of the building where the women lived to deliver the victim's correspondence exclusively to her, in order to protect her interests and prevent the lady, now a bit too forgetful, from getting into trouble.

In fact, the plan was moving forward and slowly the retiree had started to make some small withdrawals to give to her "friends." The fact is that during one of these transactions at the counter of the relevant credit institution, a diligent yet honest bank manager realized that something was not working properly and that his client, who had no children or close relatives, was behaving unusually, even expressing the intention to modify the will drawn up just a year earlier in favor of a religious entity linked to the figure of Padre Pio, presumably to benefit someone she had recently met. For this reason, the banker blocked the woman's transactions and contacted the authorities, instructing the other employees of the credit institution to not register transactions signed by the retiree unless she was present.

A series of well-timed moves, given that the police investigations, coordinated by the District Attorney's Office, clarified that Catalano had effectively isolated the elderly woman, preventing her from having phone or personal contacts with anyone, except in his presence. Thus, the florist, having contacted lawyer Nicita, began to plan the transfer of the victim's assets. An operation that Nicita was supposed to facilitate with the help of Iannaci, as well as Fisichella herself, who would suggest the easiest, least risky, and quickest "strategy" to appropriate the victim's assets: from drafting a special power of attorney in favor of Nicita to another general one in favor of Catalano, as well as the change of will, which provided for leaving everything to the florist, universal heir. The wiretaps also documented the plan to obtain a medical certificate attesting to the elderly woman's capacity to understand and will, despite a report from a first neurologist raising doubts about the cognitive abilities of the eighty-five-year-old.

Needless to say, the intervention of the mobile squad halted any further action, with two people arrested and four others under investigation. Of the four, two are now subject to a precautionary custody order, but it is not excluded that there may be further developments.

Meanwhile, the retiree has been assigned to a curator from the Prosecutor's Office, who is managing that estate judiciously, assisting the victim as the delicate situation requires.