2023-05-07 00:50:51
This is a complaint for fraud in which the complainant loaded fuel and subsequently registered an unauthorized purchase with his card. Two people were arrested at homes located in Rosario de la Frontera, kidnapping various items related to the case. One of the detainees had been required to stand trial for previous acts of fraud.
The cause is related to a complaint for fraud due to theft of credit card data, the modality of which consisted of photographing credit card data of traveling customers and their subsequent offer to third parties for their irregular use.
In the case, the complaint was filed by Pedro García Castiella through the Web Complaints system of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, for an event that occurred on February 10 of this year, in which it is reported that the complainant had loaded fuel at the YPF service station in the town of Rosario de la Frontera, paying with your credit card.
Subsequently, and after a few hours, an unauthorized consumption of $38,510 in the EDETSA company with the same card, in the Province of Tucuman, was reported by email from the banking system alert. The victim was traveling by vehicle, having left the city of Salta in the early hours of the morning, bound for the city of Buenos Aires, and at the time of registration of payment, he was already in the town of Sunchales, Santa Fe province.
After becoming aware of the illegal act, in addition to the corresponding complaint, García Castilla processed the credit card and bank, ignoring the purchase and requesting the blocking of the card.
It is appropriate to clarify in the face of previously disseminated inaccuracies that, given the immediate recognition and reimbursement by the bank of the amount stolen in the irregular use of card data, the victim in the case of the illegal act is the insurer of the system bank and not the complainant in the case.
After investigations ordered by the criminal prosecutor of Rosario de la Frontera, Oscar Lopez Ibarra, last Friday, the competent magistrate was asked to order searches directed at people allegedly involved in the investigation of an alleged criminal organization, which resulted in the arrest of two men, one of them required to stand trial for previous acts of fraud. During the procedure, different electronic elements and documentation related to the case were seized, such as cell phones, computers, credit cards, etc.
Previous causes and requirement to trial
On August 10, the prosecutor Lopez Ibarra, formulated the request for referral to trial against one of those arrested yesterday, Gaston Claudio Sanchez Toscano, for the alleged commission of the crimes of SCAM FOR THE USE OF CREDIT CARD IN REAL COMPETITION WITH THEFT (Articles 173 sub 15, 164 and 55 of the CP) to the detriment of three people
The first crime for which he is accused occurred on June 24, 2021 in Rosario de la Frontera, while the other two took place on April 30, 2022 in the same city. In the request, the prosecutor highlighted the seriousness of the accusation “since it involves the fraudulent use of credit cards and theft in several cases, therefore due process is expected to be followed in this case.”
The Prosecutor’s Office and Guarantee Judge No. 1 requested the search, kidnapping, and detention of Gastón Toscano, and on May 25, 2022, the judicial measure was carried out, in which it was discovered that the man was obtaining credit/debit card data from victims and used them to make purchases in other businesses in the city. When trying to collect the money, the defendant reported the cards as stolen, thus avoiding payment. During the raid, items of interest to the cause were seized.
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