• Scam: The EMT of Valencia victim of a cyberstata that diverts 4 million funds to a bank in Hong Kong
  • Cybersecurity. EMT conducted a cybersecurity study in 2018 and changed the payment system

Get in situation. The Municipal Transport Company (EMT) of Valencia, a public company that manages urban buses, buys a company in China and pays for it four million euros through several transfers in less than a month. Strange. Why did a Chinese company buy an autonomous agency under the Valencia City Council? And for those amounts? Too weird not to make a single query. Not even an alarm went on until the director of the bank branch with which the EMT operates was suspicious of these movements and asked. By then, the four million had disappeared and the investigation of what happened is in the hands of the Court of Instruction number 15 of Valencia.

The hypothesis that the company itself is considering was that they were victims of a scam , what they cannot specify is whether on the part of an organized network or if the director of the EMT administration negotiated had decisive intervention, fully dismissed after meeting.

The story of the events is explained by the manager of the EMT, Josep Enric Garcia Alemany, in the complaint filed before the Group of Technological Crimes of the National Police. From September 3 to 23, eight transfers were made from the Valencian company account to two other Bank of China in Hong Kong.

Before the first transfer of funds, the head of Administration receives a call from a man using a voice distorter who identifies himself as a lawyer for a consultant who has been commissioned to mediate in the purchase of Chinese society by direct order of the president of the Board of Directors of the EMT, Councilor Giuseppe Grezzi (Compromís).

To certify that this order existed, send you emails with the command, authorization and a confidentiality document. To these documents is attached an invoice that the employee is taking. The problem is that he sends it to the supposed mail of Grezzi, which turns out to be false .

From that account, the payment orders are returned with the signatures of the managing director, García Alemany, and the Director of the Management Area. Both firms, as reported in the complaint, were falsified .

The transfers are issued every three days the first four and in three plus the remaining. Four million euros in three weeks.

The head of administration does not comment on these operations with anyone "or with the managers who are apparently knowledgeable about the issue" or make any other checks. He trusts what the alleged lawyer has been forwarded to him. And the ninth transfer is paralyzed because the director of the bank branch with the opera the public company sees something strange and contacts the manager of the EMT.

When the embezzlement is uncovered, the administrative one, with a seniority of 35 years in the company, is fired for "serious and guilty breach" for not guarding sensitive information and not informing their superiors or following the security protocols established in 2018 for these cases.

With his dismissal he pointed to her as responsible for the appropriation of the funds. However, the pressure from the unions caused the disciplinary measure to be suspended until the investigation is deepened.

This macro-scam comes just at a time when the renewal of the manager must take place for the next four years, something that will happen at the board of directors meeting next Monday.

Meanwhile, the councilor responsible for the company Giuseppe Grezzi slips the possibility of claiming responsibilities to the bank for having processed transfers that represent almost 4% of its annual budget .

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