2024-09-09 23:54:38
The complaint filed by the financial institution provides details about the persons involved and the mechanism used to commit the crime.
He State Bank reported this Wednesday that it suffered a fraud that led to a millionaire robbery by a former employee, who since 2021 conspired with a company that provided services to the entity to manipulate one of the computer systems.
In this way, those involved in the crime gradually stole the $6.1 billion that were lost, which were going to be distributed among four peopleaccording to preliminary investigation.
In this context, BancoEstado discovered these actions through the reviews carried out periodically by the Internal Comptroller’s Office. After that, the financial institution filed a complaint with the 7th Guarantee Court of Santiago for computer crime, money laundering and illicit association for the commission of money laundering.
According to the document of the legal action, the state bank targeted four people: three men and one woman.
Everything we know about the multimillion-dollar robbery at BancoEstado
Two of them are former employees of the institution: Luis Arandaformer head of the Department of Processes, Systems and Technology of the Credit Operations Sub-management and Francisco del Pinoalso former head of the systems area. While the other two involved, external to the bank, are: Leidy Ferrer and Paulo Vio.
The discrepancy arose from payments made in an injector process that was created to process various operations in an automated manner.
Upon reviewing this, the theft was uncovered and the transfer of funds to two current accounts of those involved was noted. In this regard, BancoEstado reported that between 2021 and 2024 “million-dollar deposits were made to accounts associated with a company and a natural person, through the automatic injection of funds mechanism, without justification.”
Later, the July 19, 2024Aranda, who was a bank employee at the time, “He testified in the internal investigation, denouncing himself and acknowledging that he, together with a former bank employee, had made the deposits, with a view to sharing the money with the beneficiaries.“.
As for the other two involved in the robbery They are a married couple and they own the IT company who provided services to the institution.