This Civil Guard arrested three people and investigated seven as members of a criminal organization who committed a dozen fraud For companies worth 300.000 Euro those who withdraw money from their accounts after receiving their security keys, their leader was located in Valencia.
As explained by the General Directorate of Security, detainees used defenseless people those experiencing financial difficulties to open an account in your name and so power money transfer and withdrawal and hand delivery to the organizationin exchange for a loan they have to repay.
Fifteen defrauded companies established in the states of Toledo, Albacete and CuencaAlthough the operation started in November following a complaint from a businessman from Ávila, 31 thousand euros were withdrawn from his bank account. on different transfers from an unknown account number.
Agents found in February Two of the ringleaders in a vacation rental house in Valencia He was arrested and several mobile devices were seized, as well as SIM cards and 1,000 euros in cash.
During the arrests, one tried to escape by jumping from the balcony from the third floor to the lower floor, the other prisoner tried to escape and was caught at that moment. attacked two civilian rangers, seriously injuring them.
After reviewing mobile devices and seized SIM cards, discovered those two prisoners they were blackmailing about 90 people through phone callsthey demanded different amounts of money from them and threatened to physically attack them, pretending to be people from Eastern Europe if they refused to give it.
He was arrested in Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona) at the beginning of March after finding a woman who was the third ringleader.
Later, agents found a total of seven people in the towns of San Andreu de la Barca, Salou, Ciudad Real and Madrid, who were used by the conspiracy to deliver the money in cash.
The operation was carried out by the EDITE (Technological Investigation Team) of the Organic Unit of the Ávila Judicial Police, with the support of the UCO (Central Operations Unit), the Organic Unit of the Ávila Judicial Police. GRS (Reserve and Security Group) of the Barcelona Civil Guard, Tarragona, Ciudad Real and Valencia Civil Guards.