As an italian I can confirm this, there are many people speculating on this sad events.
You can find many articles on the net about how many initiatives to send money often make those money "disappear".
When the money actually arrives, the people how need to rebuild often rebuild using cheap material and take the money for them.
Some of the cities hitted by quackes many years ago never really recovered and maybe after 20 years a lot of people might be living still in containers.
