Follow us on social networks:News saved in your profileAgents of the National Police in Valencia have clarified nine scams worth more than 600,000 euros perpetrated throughout the national territory and related to the sale of medical supplies over the Internet, as reported by the Headquarters in a statement.The police have arrested a 38-year-old woman of Spanish origin in Estepona, and in Ferrol (A Coruña) another 43-year-old woman of Colombian origin, as alleged perpetrators of various fraud crimes.The investigations began at the end of September 2021 by the agents of the Cybercrime Group of the Provincial Judicial Police Brigade of Valencia upon receiving a complaint, in which the person in charge of a pharmaceutical company claimed to have been the victim of a scam by another alleged company that was offered on the Internet as a supplier of medical supplies.The complainant would have bought 1,000 antigen tests, which he never received after having made a transfer with the required amount.During the investigations, the agents verified that the people behind the scam had created several fictitious companies and opened bank accounts where they could receive transfers from the sales of the products they offered.When analyzing the movements of the receiving account, they detected that part of the money pivoted to other accounts.The agents, in addition, during the development of the operation, detected the existence of another eight affected companies at the national level, located in Valencia, Asturias, León, Murcia and Madrid, which would have bought medical supplies -antigen tests, gloves, masks- - and they would not have received them, with which different judicial proceedings were opened in as many Investigating Courts.After numerous investigations, the agents were able to fully identify the people behind these scams.They were two women and a man, who had perfectly differentiated roles.While the man was in charge of managing the advertisements on the Internet, offering the products and holding conversations through anonymous emails and instant messaging applications with future clients, one of the women was in charge of receiving the transfers made by them in accounts that she herself would have opened for this purpose, even creating one in Lithuania.The other woman, in turn, acted as a 'mule' receiving part of the money from the transfers.Finally, after numerous steps, the agents of the Cybercrime Group of the Provincial Judicial Police Brigade of Valencia, with the collaboration of the Judicial Police Heritage Group of the Local Police Station of Estepona (Málaga) and the Technological Research Group of the Brigade Provincial Judicial Police of A Coruña, located the suspects in Estepona and Ferrol and both were arrested as alleged perpetrators of a crime of fraud.Likewise, one of them also had a judicial requisition.The police also searched the home of one of those now detained, where they located and seized a laptop, two mobile phones and bank documentation.Those arrested, with a police record, one of them for similar events, have gone to court.Investigations continue to fully clarify the facts.Enjoy all the newsNews saved in your profileNews saved in your profileNews saved in your profileNews saved in your profile© La Opinion de Málaga, SL All rights reserved