Italy Breaks Up Fake EU COVID-19 Pass Schemes

Italy Breaks Up Fake EU COVID-19 Pass Schemes
A COVID-19 passport application on a phone screen, in Copenhagen, Denmark, on May 28, 2021. Signe Goldmann/Ritzau Scanpix/via Reuters
Reuters
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MILAN—Italian police said on Saturday they had broken up a number of online schemes offering to sell fake European Union digital COVID-19 status certificates or purported coronavirus vaccines.

The investigation, coordinated by the cyber crime prosecutor’s office in Milan, showed that thousands of people were ready to pay for false certificates, a police statement said.