2023-09-08 03:24:12
Before the Second Court against Organized Crime of San Salvador, the Attorney General’s Office accused three Colombians who offered loans on social networks through a false company, requested advance payments, and never made the disbursements.
The three foreigners identified as Juan Francisco Anacona Roa, Juan Carlos Méndez Vivas and Luis Ernesto Rodríguez Muñoz, were accused of the crimes of aggravated fraud, aggravated extortion and illicit groups.
The prosecutor in the case explained that the defendants belong to a transnational organization that operates in the country by defrauding and extorting.
“The events began in June of this year, the victims are two, they request a loan through social networks from a financial company, pretending to be Salvadoran, and they offer them $500,000 and ask them to disburse this amount of money, the amount of $40,000 , those were delivered on August 16 of this year which were delivered as a result of the scam that they were led to believe,” explained the prosecutor in the case.
He added that apart from the disbursement of the $40,000, the defendants also threatened both victims with taking their lives and their families if they did not deposit more money.
In the request for the imposition of measures, the Prosecutor’s Office has asked the court to continue in provisional detention while the case moves to the investigation stage.
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