A 50 -year -old was arrested in the last hours accused of Lead an organization dedicated to the commission of scams related to the sale of vehicles and the use of falsified dollars.
The arrest was completed within the framework of an operation carried out by the division fraud and scams of the City Police. It was in a home of Quilmes, where the suspect He tried to resist agents Displaying, but was quickly reduced and arrested.
The procedure that ended with the apprehended man included nine total raids between Greater Buenos Aires and CABA, which were ordered within the framework of a case carried out by the National Criminal and Correctional Court No. 37 of the Federal Capital.
In the operations, in addition to finding the alleged scaming leader, firearms were seized – among them, two Bersa guns and a tanfoglio – cell phones, computers, cash (including USD 14,000), relevant documentation and false tickets.
The investigation in question began in July 2024, from the complaint based before the 13B neighborhood police station of the city police for a man who said he had been the victim of a scam After trying to sell your private cara Peugeot 208, through a Facebook post.
According to his story, he was contacted by a car agency and agreed to meet a company representative at a service station located in the corner of Avenida Figueroa Alcorta and Echeverría, in CABA. In that place, however, They gave the seller only part of the agreed money, under the commitment to pay the rest After performing a technical verification of the vehicle. But after taking the shot, the buyer disappeared and did not communicate again.
Following this complaint, specialized personnel initiated an investigation that included the survey and analysis of images captured by security cameras at the meeting point. In addition, commissions were requested from the Urban Monitoring Center (CMU) and the track of the vehicle involved in the first fact was followed. These tasks They allowed to find elements that linked the car with a new criminal episode.
On August 8, 2024, Peugeot 208 himself was used by a group of scammers to commit an illegal second, This time against a woman. In this case, the authors, with the help of a lady whose identity could not yet be established, They cheated the victim and stole $ 30,000 and gold jewels.
The investigation continued and, after various intelligence tasks, the agents achieved Identify the main author of criminal acts and other people involved in maneuvers.
After advancing in the case, police personnel He asked the intervening magistrate to intervention of multiple telephone lines associated with suspects. From the judicial authorization, listening were made in real time and the recordings obtained were analyzed and transcribed.
These tasks allowed to identify nine homes linked to the scammersbetween private homes and properties used to store vehicles obtained fraudulently.
With firm evidence on the authorship of the facts and the connection of those investigated with the realized properties, the police team formally asked the judge to carry out raids and the arrest of the main suspect, considered head of the criminal gang.
The 50 -year -old was captured in the ninth of the raided objectives. During the operation, he tried to resist and shot, although he did not cause injuries among police personnel or between third parties. After his apprehension, he was transferred to the headquarters of the DDI of Avellaneda.
After the measures, the magistrate ordered to request the processing of man before his pair in the province of Buenos Aires. He was arrested with pretrial detention for his role as head of the organization.
