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The Italian man stole over 1,000 manuscripts from writers

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The man admitted that he used electronic means of communication for this. He was charged by the New York federal prosecutor’s office.

Italian Filippo Bernardini admitted to stealing over 1,000 unpublished manuscripts. He has tricked them with various writers, including Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan and Sally Rooney. This was reported by The Guardian.

It was learned that the swindler had been known in literary circles for several years, but he was arrested only now.

Bernardini worked for Simon & Schuster. He sent emails to writers from fake accounts using the domain names of real publishers, changing some characters. In total, he has more than 160 of these e-mail boxes.

So, the writers and their representatives believed the fraudster, sent him materials by e-mail.

“In 2019, Margaret Atwood’s agent reported an attempt to obtain the manuscript of the novel. Covenants. In 2020, the New York Times wrote that a scammer targeted Sally Rooney, the book’s author. Normal peopleIan McKewen, who wrote Redemption and actor Ethan Hawke. In 2021 to the Swedish editors of the series Millennium Stieg Larsson was approached by a man who introduced himself as a colleague from Italy and asked for a copy of the material for translation.

Interestingly, Bernardini’s motives are unknown, because he never asked for money from the authors as a ransom, and the stolen texts were not posted anywhere.

The fraudster agreed to pay compensation in the amount of $88,000. Also, under US law, he faces up to 20 years in prison for the juice.

Recall that last year the Security Service of Ukraine prevented the illegal transfer abroad of an ancient manuscript of cultural value.

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Source: korrespondent

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