Murder at Villa Pamphili: mother and daughter identified. Suspicious financing for film never made by Kaufmann

On Saturday 7 June, the lifeless bodies of 28 year old Russian Anastasia Trofimova and Andromeda Ford, who had been killed on 6 June, were found at Villa Pamphili in Rome. The 2 bodies were discovered close to each other.

Francis Kaufmann (a.k.a. Rexal Ford, a.k.a. Matteo Capozzi), 46 years old, American, presented himself as a film director in Italy. He lived in Rome for some time, looking for a house in the Monteverde and Aurelio districts. The Rome Public Prosecutor's Office is investigating him for aggravated intentional homicide (since it was his daughter). The possible motive is unknown. The little girl was strangled.

Anastasia Trofimova arrived in Europe in 2023 from Omsk, southern Siberia. In Malta she met Kaufmann where, on 16 June 2024, Andromeda was born. Source: the registry office of Malta.

With other potential accomplices - the identity mentions the Italian company Coevolutions as Italian-foreign co-productions were being financed - Kaufmann obtained a tax credit of 863,000 euro of public funds from the Ministry of Culture for a film that was never made: 'Stars of the Night'. In 2020, through the Maltese company Tintagel Films, founded by Kaufmann under the false name Rexal Ford, he obtained a tax credit equal to 40% of the expenses incurred month by month, i.e. approximately 863,595.90 euro. The tax credit is calculated on the costs incurred, so invoices for about EUR 2.15 million were submitted.

The funding was obtained through the Directorate General for Cinema and Audiovisual, with a decree signed by the Director General Nicola Borrelli on 27 November 2020. Minister of Culture was Dario Franceschini (Conte bis).