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The 40-year-old man is accused of being the alleged perpetrator of a criminal offense of fraud and steady doc forgery The investigation started in November 2022 after a grievance from a sufferer who wished to purchase a flat in Miami Platja The law enforcement officials already knew the couple of scammers for 3 different scams with the identical traits
A choose has ordered freedom with prices for a 40-year-old man arrested by the Mossos on Tuesday in Calafell (Tarragona) because the alleged perpetrator of a criminal offense of fraud and steady documentary falsification, and who allegedly defrauded 151,468 euros from a purchaser.
The investigation started in November 2022 with the grievance of a resident in one other European nation who, desirous about shopping for an condominium in Miami Platja (Mont-roig del Camp), employed the companies of a false actual property agent who posed as a registered skilled, reviews the Catalan police in a press release.
The fraudster used the corporate managed by his spouse – criminally denounced for a similar details – with a false registered workplace in Sabadell (Barcelona) and, to have extra credibility, had a web site with companies and call numbers, additionally non-existent.
In February he started to obtain the primary earnings from the sufferer and, after gaining his belief, managed “with false arguments and pretexts” to purchase extra time and postpone the signing of the mortgage deed.
This failure to signal the contract led to the cost of 35,000 euros by the complainant, a sum that was added to the 116,468 euros that had already been paid.
Couple already recognized to investigators
The investigators already knew this couple of scammers, as a result of they had been arrested in January as alleged perpetrators of three different scams of the identical traits, wherein they obtained about 85,000 euros.
This final case is added to the opposite six scams that they’d already dedicated in Catalonia since 2017 and that allowed them to acquire an quantity that the Catalan police estimate between 2,700 and 68,700 euros in whole.