An Italian man is accused of dressing up as his dead mother as part of a Mrs. Doubtfire -style pension scam .

The unidentified 56-year-old man is being investigated for concealing a corpse, fraud against state damages, impersonation and falsehood in public, according to the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera (h/t PEOPLE ). The man disguised himself as his mother, Graziella Dall'Oglio , wearing lipstick, a brown wig, blouse and skirt when he collected the 85-year-old's pension after she died in 2022..

The suspect is a former nurse who is currently unemployed and never reported his mother's death, instead continuing to claim €53,000 ($60,000) of her survivor's pension from her late husband and income from the family's real estate. A registry office clerk in Borgo Virgili

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