China News Service, May 15 (Xinhua), according to the European Union quoted the European Union News Agency, on May 14, local time, the Milan police in Italy informed the media that Nenad Jovanovic (Nenad Jovanovic), known as the king of European fraud On the morning of the 14th, he was arrested by the police. The police seized his assets worth more than 2 million euros. The prosecutor will prosecute him for the alleged fraud.

  According to reports, according to police reports, the suspected suspected fraudulent Vanovic, a Croatian citizen, is 46 years old. Jovanovic has used multiple pseudonyms and has been engaged in fraud for a long time, with victims in many countries in the European Union.

  In 2002, Jovanovic faked an Italian expert, hoping to buy real estate in Austria, and disguised as 500,000 Swiss francs with 1,000 sheets of lottery paper as a deposit and deposit for the purchase of the house, but asked the other party to provide 90,000 euros in cash for its temporary use. After he succeeded, Jovanovic would take advantage of people's unwillingness to escape.

  Jovanovic has done the same, and has carried out four similar frauds in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In 2007, Jovanovic was wanted by Interpol under his pseudonym Claudio Moro.

  In April 2017, Jovanovic pretended to be an Israeli diplomat and used the diplomat ’s false identity to persuade art dealers in Sardinia and London to organize an auction of French painter Pierre Renoir ’s "Girls" and the painting "The Holy Family" by German painter Peter Rubens.

  It is reported that the two historical paintings of "The Girl on the Lawn" and "The Holy Family" are worth 26 million euros. Jovanovic and four Italian associates deceived the collectors of these two paintings to a house in Monza to organize an auction. The house was disguised as a consulate of a certain country, and the place chosen for the house was exactly the same as Albania. The consulate is in the same building.

  When the gallery owner brought the famous paintings to auction, Jovanovic and his associates distracted the gallery owner's attention on the pretext of drinking coffee. The associates took the opportunity to steal the two paintings, and then Jovanovic took the opportunity to slip away. go. A year later, Jovanovic and four associates were arrested and the two famous paintings were found by police in a gypsy camp near Turin.

  In December 2019, the Jovanovic scam gang shot again and agreed to deal with a diamond merchant in the lobby of a luxury hotel in Milan. The other party brought a diamond worth 3 million euros, while the Jovanovic scam gang I bought diamonds with a few packs of 200 euros of counterfeit money.

  Police said that although Jovanovic ’s fraudulent gang members did not have a proper profession, they accumulated a lot of wealth and lived a very luxurious life. They owned a number of luxury cars including Ferrari, Audi and Mercedes-Benz, and bought a lot of jewelry. On the morning of the 14th, the police raided two luxury homes in Jovanovic in Milan and seized jewelry and other items worth more than 2 million euros.