When agents entered the hospital room, Gian Keller - a fictional name - remained bedridden. Although the bandages covered almost all of his bruised and inflamed face, they perceived the terror in his gaze. Blocked, in a state of shock, he was unable to provide any information that allowed investigators from the Provincial Police of Malaga to identify and detain the individuals who had assaulted the home of this Swiss millionaire last night. An exciting case that allowed the fall of the band of Fali El Dientes , a dangerous and violent group of house thieves who planned their blows perfectly.

The police faced that enigma on June 22, 2018, whose outcome seemed easier at its source, but which was complicated when they were certain that they faced braged criminals. Traumatized and still without strength to interview the investigators, the victim sent the police a letter in which he rebuilt the assault and subsequent kidnapping and robbery.

It had been ten o'clock at night when Gian was about to enter the luxurious penthouse he has in the Malaga neighborhood of Churriana - one of his many properties. At that time, four hooded and armed individuals pounced on him and forced him into the home. Once inside, they gave him a brutal beating while asking him about valuables. The victim, an old man close to 70, began screaming; which alerted a neighbor who called the National Police.

The arrival of the patrols fled the criminals. Not everyone managed to flee. One missed his way out and began to jump from balcony to balcony until he was trapped on a terrace and was surprised by the owner of the house. There he was arrested and handcuffed while the 061 toilets stabilized the victim to transfer her to a hospital.

AG, known as Antoñete , remained unperturbed during the interrogation. Silence was his only answer to the battery of questions with which the researchers wanted to open a gap that would bring them closer to the rest of the band members. They failed to get anything out before he entered prison.

It was time for agents to try other strategies. Dive in the victim's environment and leave the tabs in front of the computer screen. A work that was only altered by a strange circumstance: «The thieves took, among other things, a gold seal with an emerald valued at 60,000 euros. This ring was found days after the robbery on the terrace where Antoñete was arrested, when the owner of the apartment was cleaning. The funny thing is that this woman firmly stated that she had cleaned the area where she found it before and did not see it, ”says one of the sources consulted.

The police resumed work with the certainty that someone close to Gian, a millionaire who used thousands and thousands of euros watches, drove a Mercedes 4x4 with all the extras and that, despite being the owner of the attic in which he was assaulted , he lived long periods in a 5-star hotel in Malaga city, he set his goal after knowing his high purchasing power.

"A professional scammer"

The spotlights turned at first to a friend of Croatian origin and then stopped on an explanation that sometimes made bodyguards for the victim, although the investigations confirmed the innocence of both.

Time passed and the investigation seemed to enter a dead road, until the reconstruction of Gian's recent past, crossed with the methods of technological analysis, led researchers to an individual: JLA, known as Arrabal .

This 27-year-old individual, impeccable floor plan and exquisite manners was a fixed customer at the hotel that Gian usually went to and, according to the testimonies collected by the police, both cultivated a close relationship. A seduction game propitiated by the young man whose ultimate goal was to know the secrets of the millionaire's current account.

«He is a professional scammer. He disappeared and left a pufo after spending two months living in the hotel at the body of Rey, "said one of the investigators, who concludes describing Arrabal as" a trickster with the gift of the word he was hunting . It was he who pointed to the victim".

Another of those responsible for the case explains that since then "we focus on him and, after a series of inquiries, we conclude that it was the brain of a gang of thieves led by a dangerous criminal: RCC, known as Fali The Teeth ».

This new piece in the case was "a very bad and aggressive guy , " whose 'modus operandi' fit perfectly into violent assault on Gian. The circle seemed to start closing.

The Malaga policemen, through meticulous work, managed to unravel the network of relations of Arrabal and El Dientes and put faces, names and roles within the organization to each of the participants in the robbery.

Thus, it was concluded that before the assault the two leaders deployed a large monitoring device by Gian Keller that allowed them to know their habits, residences and the interiors of their lifestyle, work that lasted for weeks and that some of them they combined with their jobs - one was an employee of a Mercadona. The results were analyzed in periodic meetings held in commercial establishments in Fali.

On the day of the coup, the thieves were divided into two groups. The first, composed of El Dientes, Arrabal and a third person, was in charge of locating themselves in the perimeter of the urbanization where their objective resided and carrying out surveillance tasks, so it is assumed that the rest of the arrival of the police patrols was notified . The second, formed by Antoñete, JR El Gato , JRT Prince and JLJ Joni , was the executing arm, responsible for perpetrating the kidnapping and robbery.

The investigation lasted for months and, already inaugurated 2019, culminated in the Helvetia operation, which resulted in the arrest of these seven people, and two more, accused of belonging to a criminal organization, robbery with violence and intimidation, illegal detention and injuries .

The agents charged seven more robberies to the dangerous gang, but they had a loose link. The last piece of the puzzle. An equation that they still hope to clear: «Gian denounced the removal of a valuable watch, a Patek Philippe valued at 58,000 euros, which was not found in the records. We suspect it was sold in Barcelona ».

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