Society
Caritas affair
Italian suspect in €61 million Caritas fraud arrested in Rome
Italian police have arrested Clarissa La Porta, a 41-year-old accused of helping to launder the roughly €61 million embezzled from Caritas Luxembourg, in the latest cross-border turn of the country's largest charity-fraud scandal. Detained in Rome on a European Arrest Warrant from Luxembourg, she faces forgery, fraud, criminal-association and money-laundering charges and awaits possible extradition. She is presumed innocent.