A man blew the cover on his elaborate pension fraud when he was dressed up as his mother to renew her ID – leading police to find her mummified remains in his basement.

The 57-year-old had been successfully collecting his mother’s pension every month for three years after her death, according to Corriere della Sera.

He kept her body in the cellar of her home, in the commune of Borgo Virgilio in Lombardy, Italy, without reporting her death.

But he was forced to get into his mother’s clothes when her identity card expired.

The son showed up at the commune’s registry office wearing a woman’s dress, wig, lipstick and jewellery to try to fool civil servants. Officials immediately became suspicious and began their own investigations into the case, uncovering what they suspected was years of

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