A 65-year-old woman from Genoa has gone on trial on charges of forging a 3-million-euro will of a wealthy elderly woman, whom she allegedly never knew. Prosecutors have asked for her to be sentenced to one year in prison. The affair emerged after a complaint from the deceased's grandchildren. According to the beneficiary's account, the two women allegedly met during the summer of 2017 at a park in Genoa. The defendant was crying because she had just separated and the elderly woman allegedly asked her if she needed help and said she was willing to help. They would see each other twice, and one day the elderly woman decided to make a will, intestating to her all the money and securities totaling about 3 million euros. When the woman died in 2019, the 65-year-old woman went to the bank and asked to withdraw the money under the will. The manager became suspicious and called the grandchildren. The will was challenged and subjected to an expert opinion that established its falsity. At that point, prosecutors froze the accounts and sent the alleged beneficiaries to trial.
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