Three young people
have been sentenced this Tuesday in the Court of Palma to one year in prison each after acknowledging that they
defrauded a total of 350,000 euros
from
Amazon
from
Mallorca
through
false product returns
.
The Court of Palma has hosted this Tuesday morning a pre-trial hearing in which the three defendants, two brothers and a friend of theirs were summoned for the fraud of the entity.
The young people have acknowledged the events, which occurred between 2017 and 2019, and have accepted
one year in prison each
and the payment of a
fine
of 1,080 euros, after reaching an agreement with the public prosecutor's office.
The court has granted the suspension of the prison sentence.
The defendants
have already paid part of the 350,000 euros with amounts in bitcoins
seized in the procedure, which the Court converted to euros and Amazon withdrew from the procedure once it received the requested compensation.
The three young people devised a method to
benefit from Amazon products by taking advantage of its immediate return policy,
so that they offered the products on buying and selling platforms at a price below the usual one, and when someone paid for it, they bought it at Amazon indicating the buyer's address in the shipment.
The Prosecutor's Office concludes that the three young people filed a claim with
Amazon
indicating that the product had arrived in poor condition, or that they did not want it, for which reason they requested a return.
With the shipping label generated by Amazon, the defendants went to a Post Office with the code and delivered a box without the product or with another object inside to simulate the weight of the product.
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