He stole the card from the home owner and diverted several million

2024-07-11 21:26:26

A 26-year-old girl is accused of a million dollar scam against her 84-year-old neighbor in the town of Cordoba in Pilar. The man is also the owner of the house where the young woman lives with her minor son, and of the place where the woman established a salon, on 25th Street of Mayo, in this city in the department of Río Segundo.

For investigators, the only suspect in the deviation is the tenant, who was accused by the Río Segundo prosecutor’s office, headed by Patricia Baulies.

“He took advantage of an elderly man who sometimes tends to be misguided,” said a police source involved in the case.

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According to the investigation, still open, the woman would have taken possession of the debit and identity card of the victim, with whom she had a neighborly relationship. “With that he opened an account in the bank. From there you can see the balance, credits and maturities. At zero hour, when the fixed period expired, he started transferring the money,” said one of the researchers.

The whole maneuver was noticed by the lawyer of the victim, who started receiving several emails with transfers of million dollars from the account of his client, who received that money after the sale of the property.

After the lawyer’s announcement, a relative of the victim managed to block the account, but it was too late: 14 million pesos were missing. They immediately filed a complaint at the Pilar police station.

Millionaire purchases

According to the investigations, the accused transferred 8 million pesos to a car dealer to buy a Ford Focus vehicle, although she would have asked him to reverse the operation. “Spend the money. “I will explain to you later,” he would have written to the seller.

The rest of the money went to a client of her beauty salon, whose account was blocked by Mercado Pago after the million dollar transfer. The operations were carried out from the victim’s account, which the woman already managed.

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In addition, and after a raid on the house of the accused, investigators seized an iPhone 15 Pro, worth almost two million pesos. “The box was there. “It looked like he had just been bought,” said the source. They also seized a laptop, more than 200 thousand pesos and clothes, it was said.

In another procedure, in the house of a relative of the accused, a telephone and a computer were seized.

“Part of the money is frozen, so the owner couldn’t use it again,” said the researcher, who added that this type of fraud is generally difficult to commit.