DANIEL SOMOLINOS Madrid
Madrid
Updated Monday, January 29, 2024-23:56
When the 87-year-old woman realized it, it was too late. Someone
had emptied her bank account
, where she had around 30,000 euros. And although she still does not know if the bank will return this amount, at least she is "grateful" to know that the crime has not gone unpunished.
National Police agents have arrested two people, including one of their caregivers - a 37-year-old Ecuadorian - for committing this crime. Together with her companion, also born in Ecuador in 1980,
she used the octogenarian's data to acquire bank cards
, through which they withdrew all her funds, leaving the victim, who resides in Villa de Vallecas, penniless.
So much so that, after filing the corresponding complaint at the beginning of January, it was
the agents themselves who created a pot
so that he could buy food, since they had taken even his monthly pension.
The first investigations already revealed that someone had taken out a card in the name of the scammed woman and, with it, had made a high number of purchases and cash withdrawals from ATMs without her consent. "They spent the money at gas stations, hairdressers, restaurants...
They even bought a car. In addition, they sent amounts abroad
," police sources tell this newspaper.
After learning the facts, the investigation focused on the individuals who acted as caregivers for this elderly woman, almost thirty people. Finally they found the suspect
, a worker at a company that had occasionally attended to the victim
, verifying that the bank charges coincided with her movements throughout the national territory, especially Madrid, Toledo and Almería.
The investigations confirmed that the alleged author had moved her residence to the Andalusian town of Roquetas de Mar,
establishing a device there that culminated in her arrest
and that of a man as alleged perpetrators of the crimes of fraud and theft.