Arrested in El Prat the alleged chief of a bunch that defrauded 2,400 million euros in cryptocurrencies

According to an announcement from the Catalan police this Friday, the brokers detained him when the flight on which he was touring from Romania landed.

The man was supposedly “in control of managing all of the Spanish victims” by means of fee brokers who redirected them to the platform he led, though the contacts had been created from ‘name facilities’ in nations on the periphery of the European Union.

The judicial investigation has been directed by the Investigating Court quantity 2 of La Seu d’Urgell (Lleida) and the Lleida Prosecutor’s Office, and the detainee is predicted to go to court docket this Friday.

Hundreds of 1000’s of victims

The police forces of Germany, Sweden, Finland, Latvia, Ukraine, Georgia and Albania, with the participation of the Mossos and the Civil Guard, dismantled an alleged prison group whose members pretended to be consultants on this planet of finance and supplied giant quantities of cash with an funding of 250 euros.

In the operation on November 8 and 9, they deactivated round fifteen name facilities, arrested two of the highest officers in Albania and issued worldwide arrest warrants towards the alleged prime managers of the community.

According to the researchers, the community earned 400 euros a minute and 50 million euros each three months, and the variety of individuals affected reaches lots of of 1000’s, primarily in Europe.

After the operation, the Spanish police forces activated a search engine with the 476 allegedly fraudulent platforms that made up the prison community in order that the victims might pay attention to the info and file a grievance.