Overview

• Fabrizio S. is accused of advertising fake Munich apartments online and pocketing over €100,000 from hopeful tenants
• He was detained in Riposto in May and held in Catania under a German international arrest warrant
• On July 24, an Italian court approved his transfer to Germany and set an August 1 handover at Catania airport
• Italian officials lifted his custody in July without consulting German counterparts, substituting a reporting requirement that he did not meet
• German and Italian agencies have launched an intensified search and are reviewing extradition protocols to prevent repeat failures