Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the element of fraudulent deception (arglist) under Art. 146 StGB was established for the fraud conviction.
Decisione estratta
Yes. The false incapacity claim was sufficiently deceptive because the insurers relied on convincing medical reports and the defendant's hard-to-verify narrative; the victims were not negligent in a way that excluded fraud.
Motivazione estratta
The defendant had misled doctors and then insurers, and his continued work activity was only uncovered after lengthy observation and accounting review. The alleged easy verifiability did not defeat arglist, since even confronting him with checks would likely have led to further evasions and the insurers could rely on the apparent credibility of the medical evidence.