A recent case in Santiago del Estero exposed a vulgar scam in the cargo transport sector. A trucker He pretended to have been assaulted by asphalt pirates while transporting a sum of money belonging to the company he worked for. The driver ended up arrested for “false complaint and fraud”after the Police will recover all of the stolen money which had previously been given to a woman.
The man arrived at the hospital in the city of Quimili “with visible bruises and cuts, in an apparent state of shock,” reported sources from the Santiago del Estero Police to Infobae.
This motivated the immediate intervention of the police and the prosecutor on duty, who ordered that the investigation and expert work be carried out through the Criminalistics division. In addition, he ordered the preventive seizure of the truck and the performance of a medical examination on the driver.
However, from the beginning, the agents detected inconsistencies in the truck driver’s testimony: the absence of broken glass and traces of other vehicles were incompatible with the scene of a violent robbery en route.
According to the evidence gathered, the carrier would have stolen the money in complicity with a close friend residing in the province of Tucumanto whom he would have given the cash and with the purpose of dividing the loot.
However, sources in the case confirmed to this medium that a 33-year-old woman, a resident of the Tucuman town of Sevil Pozoappeared this morning at Community Police Station No. 29 in the city of Quimilí and voluntarily delivered a box with a sum of $21,140,000.
The woman stated that the money had been given to her recently. “by a relative of the truck driver who simulated the robbery”. Furthermore, the sources of the case highlighted that the amount exactly corresponds to what was reported.
The critical elements in the investigation, centralized in the comprehensive loot recovery and the precise reconstruction of the logistics of the alleged assault, allowed the authorities not only to refute the complaint, but also to avoid million-dollar damages for the affected transportation company.
The officers, after verifying the absence of violence and finding the money, proceeded to arrest the driver while the prosecution analyzes determining the degree of participation of the accused’s relative.
The Public Ministry focused on establishing whether the family member acted as accomplice or was simply used as a facilitator of hiding money.
