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Thames Valley Police probe finds that address for 179 Italians was - in fact - a post box.
A judge has overturned 179 divorces after it was discovered that the Italian citizens involved were pretending to live in the UK.
The Mirror reports that they pretended to live in the Berkshire town of Maidenhead in order to get a quick divorce - and that the address they had claimed to live at were all for a mailbox.
The fraudulent divorces were arranged by Dr Frederica Russo, who charged Italian couples up to £3,600.
The scam was first spotted when a court official in Burnley noticed two divorce cases registered to the same address.
The judge said that the address was found by Thames Valley police to be a mailbox, at a non-residential address.
"Given the dimensions of the mailbox it is clear that not even a single individual, however small, could possibly reside in it," the judge quipped.
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