This Civil Guard Arrested ten people involved in scams of more than 100,000 euros to hoteliers in their provinces. Alicante, Granada, Jaen, Madrid and Murcia Through fake power outage. All of the arrests were made in various municipalities of the Community of Madrid, and the people involved introduced themselves as staff from the electricity supply companies and demanded over the phone from the hoteliers to pay the last two fees. bills your light, supposedly unpaidthreatened to cut their power immediately. Calls were made during peak hours so that hoteliers could pay quickly via transfers to be more successful and avoid power outages.
Increase in complaints
This Technological Crimes Team (EDITE) The Organic Unit of the Judicial Police of the Alicante Civil Guard Command began its investigations last February after detecting an increase in the number of complaints filed by hoteliers.
The victims were distributed in different parts of the province such as La Vila Joiosa, Altea, El Campello, Santa Pola, Guardamar del Segura, Calp and Pilar de la Horadada. In the first phase of the operation, the agents simultaneously analyzed the overlapping “pattern”. 26 complaints from hoteliers in the province of Alicante, later victims from the provinces of Granada, Jaén, Madrid and Murcia joined in.
EDITE, in collaboration with the Forensic Police District Team, Sant Joan d’Alacant and the Investigation Area of the Civil Guard Main Station San Vicente del Raspeig further analyzed 50+ bank accounts and various documents.
The band was organized into three well-differentiated groups. On the one hand, there were several workers from one place. Telephone booth located in San Martín de la Vega (Madrid), providing the group with phone cards they make on behalf of fictitious persons. Then another member of the group, ciempozuelos (Madrid) used these cards to search for selected victims. Finally, the other members”cheap mule“The use of money obtained by fraudulent bookmakers in bank transfers, thereby obtaining the money in cash.
After all members of the organization were identified, five people were arrested in the towns of Pinto and Rivas-Vaciamadrid in Madrid on 9 August in the first phase, and another five were arrested on 30 November, carrying out two entries and searches. Two houses in Madrid’s towns of San Martín de la Vega and Ciempozuelos mobile phone devicesmobile phone SIM cards and 1.5 kilos of cannabis resin.
crimes charged
The ten people arrested are two 19-year-old women and eight men, aged 22 to 39, of Spanish, Cuban, Romanian and Moroccan nationality. Each was charged with the following crimes, according to degree of involvement: fraud, money laundering, belonging to a criminal group, threats, drug trafficking and embezzlement. The 2nd Circuit Court of First Instance and Order of La Vila Joiosa, tasked with instructing the case, decided that one of those primarily responsible should go to prison.
Civil Guard, in frame Safe Trading Plan, recommends not to pay in this type of situation, because electricity companies do not require payment in this way, so they do so with a receipt. In case of doubt and prior to payment, it is recommended to contact your electricity company at the phone number that appears on the invoices.