A 31-year-old Croatian man with a
criminal record has been arrested after posing as a diplomat to
blag a luxury 10-day holiday in one of the best hotels and in
the top eateries and nightspots on Capri.
The con artist also hired a yacht with a skipper on which he
toured the Amalfi and Sorrento coasts, police said.
He spent some 15,000 euros using credit cards and bank transfers
that have turned out to be fake.
The man has been arrested on charges of fraud and impersonating
someone else.
Challenged by police, the man insisted he was a diplomat and
tried to hush them away.
The man told his hotel when they asked him to pay his bill that
he had already done so via bank transfer, and he showed them the
fake receipt, for over 10,000 euros.
He used the same trick, police said, for paying for the yacht
and other vessels he used to tour Capri and the other Bay of
Naples and Amalfi Coast beauty spots.
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