The Civil Guard investigates a 20-year-old man, a neighbor of Medina del Campo (Valladolid), as the alleged perpetrator of 49 scams committed in 18 provinces, among them, Asturias, during the hiring compulsory car insurance. In total, the defendant was made illegally with an amount of 7,250 euros.
The events took place during 2020 when the affected people hired through an alleged insurance mediator, which was advertised on different web platforms in which it referred to “Low-cost insurance” as a “hook and way of capturing their victims.” Later they were referred to a mobile phone number so that customers could take advantage of the supposed advantages of contracting the aforementioned insurance, the Civil Guard explained in a note.
The investigation began during a preventive control carried out by the Civil Guard of Navarra in which a vehicle was located that was circulating without mandatory automobile insurance in force and the owner of the vehicle claimed to have contracted an insurance policy.
The person identified in the control went to the Citizen Attention Office of the Civil Guard in Irurzun (Navarra), reporting having made a transfer as a payment for the contracting of mandatory automobile insurance, for which he reported having been a victim of a fraud.
The Irurzun Post in the first place and the Technological and Economic Crime Team (EDITE) of the UOPJ of the Civil Guard of Navarra, once it was verified that it was a massive scam, they took over the investigation. During the first investigations they verified the veracity of these facts and began an investigation that managed to identify a large number of people who could have been victims of this scam, so they proceeded to locate them and offer legal actions as victims of a crime of fraud.
Once all the evidence had been gathered, the author of the 49 scams was investigated, this being a 20-year-old male, a resident of Medina del Campo (Valladolid).
As explained by the Civil Guard, the scammer, after contacting the victim by phone, indicated his account number to make the payment. Subsequently, the investigated made an insurance proposal in an insurer that he used to make the victim believe the process of insuring the vehicle. In the proposal that he sent to the insurer, he indicated a wrong account number for the collection, so the collection could not be carried out by the insurance company and the vehicle insurance contract was never formalized.
With this operation, called ‘Veres’, the Edite de la Guardia Civil de Navarra has managed to clarify 49 crimes of fraud with victims in 18 Spanish provinces (Navarra, Valladolid, Ciudad Real, Málaga, Asturias, Seville, Balearic Islands, Pontevedra, Almería, Tarragona, León, Madrid, Toledo, Córdoba, Jaén, Barcelona, Cádiz and Badajoz).
The investigated published 109 ads on different websites which were used to capture their victims, managing to swindle a total of 7,250 euros.
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