Jordi AF, Lupine, reviewed: Spain’s biggest cyber fraudster He faced a two-year prison sentence from the Prosecutor’s Office for an alleged fraud committed against a Gipuzkoan, also based in Elche, whose personal data he learned through the fraudulent sale and purchase of a video game console. Internet according to EFE.
It is estimated that he made a profit around 300,000 euros per month online fraud, copying store web pages and using platforms to trick victims into purchasing items they never received.
He was tried this Tuesday in San Sebastián for the case in which, in October 2017, he placed advertisements on a website about the sale and purchase of articles, according to the provisional indictment of the Prosecutor’s Office, which EFE has access to. He supposedly offered a PS4 game console for 289 euros.
lupine He was arrested in a nightclub in Madrid almost two years ago.One of the store’s customers recognized the alleged cyber fraudster at a booth after seeing his image on a recent television program.
The witness notified the National Police Service, who then sent a team to the nightclub; agents of this team confirmed his identity and confirmed that the young man had several legal claims that led to his arrest.
After his arrest, Lupine, who was wearing the following clothes at the time almost 12,000 euros in cashHe requested a habeas corpus, or immediate appearance before the judge, and was transferred to Madrid’s Investigating Judge No. 3, according to legal sources who informed EFE at the time.
The known criminal did not state before the judge that he had filed nine criminal allegations of fraud by the courts of Ponferrada (León), Elche, Guadalajara, Albacete, Cádiz and Madrid.
Dismissal of habeas corpus
However, the judge approved these search and arrest warrants, as well as an order to imprison him, thus denying “habeas corpus” and bringing him to justice.
Born in Ponferrada (León), 26-year-old Lupine is considered the biggest cyber fraudster in the history of Spain and have already been convicted in at least one of more than one trial pursued against him.
According to the information provided to EFE by sources related to the incident, all of Lupine’s cases are currently backlogged. national audience (except for one case that occurred in Madrid and Gipuzkoa), because they were committed in different parts of Spain.
Victim
After seeing the ad, the Guipuzcoan victim contacted the alleged fraudster via his reference phone number and had a conversation with him, in which he gave his name, surname, ID, address and bank card number.
The defendant then reassured him: Game console will arrive “in two or three days” It was alleged that he used the victim and the data he received from the victim, although he “never sent the requested product”. numbering your card to make various purchases At a service station in Lugo for a total of 760.49 euros.
At the hearing this Tuesday, the defendantTransferred from Asturias prison to testify in San SebastiánHe accepted his lawyer’s questions to make sure he was the only one drug user Since he was a minor, a lawsuit was filed without providing any information about the alleged fraud.
However, the gas station employee who knew the defendant announced via video conferenceHe explained that he identified himself in the photo lineup at that moment, but was unable to do so in the courtroom, even though several years had passed since that moment and he was beardless.
One of the police officers who made the identification recalled that another employee at the service station had also identified the defendant in a different sequence than that of the previous witness.
In the last part of the hearing, the prosecution continued to request conviction for the defendant, while the defense requested free acquittal. EFE