This functionality is only for registeredThis functionality is only for registeredThis functionality is for subscribers onlyThe National Police of Valencia has clarified nine scams worth more than 600,000 euros, perpetrated throughout the national territory and related to the sale of medical supplies online.The agents have arrested a 38-year-old Spanish woman in the Malaga town of Estepona, and another 43-year-old Colombian woman in the Coruña municipality of Ferrol, as alleged perpetrators of various fraud crimes.The investigations began at the end of September 2021 by agents of the Cybercrime Group of the Valencia Provincial Judicial Police Brigade upon receiving a complaint, in which the person in charge of a pharmaceutical company claimed to have been the victim of a fraud by part of another alleged company that was offered online as a supplier of medical supplies.The complainant would have bought 1,000 antigen tests, which he never received after having made a transfer with the required amount.During the investigations, the agents verified that the people behind the scam would have created several fictitious companies, opening bank accounts where they would receive transfers from the sales of the products they offered.When analyzing the movements of the receiving account, they detected that part of the money pivoted to other accounts.The agents, in addition, during the development of the operation, detected the existence of another eight affected companies at the national level, located in Valencia, Asturias, León, Murcia and Madrid, which would have bought medical supplies (antigen tests, gloves, masks, etc. ) and they would not have received them, opening different judicial procedures in other Courts of Instruction.After numerous investigations, the agents were able to fully identify the people behind these scams, in the case of two women and one man, who had perfectly differentiated roles.While the man was in charge of managing the online advertisements, offering the products and holding conversations through anonymous emails and instant messaging applications with future clients, one of the women was in charge of receiving the transfers made by them in accounts that she itself would have opened for this purpose, even creating one in Lithuania.The other woman, in turn, acted as a "mule", receiving part of the money from the transfers.Finally, after numerous steps and arduous investigative work, the agents of the Cybercrime Group of the Provincial Judicial Police Brigade of Valencia, with the collaboration of the Judicial Police Heritage Group of the Local Police Station of Estepona (Málaga) and the Group of Technological Investigation of the Provincial Judicial Police Brigade of A Coruña, located the suspects in Estepona and Ferrol, both being arrested as alleged perpetrators of a crime of fraud.Likewise, one of them also had a judicial requisition.The police also searched the home of one of those now detained, where they located and seized a laptop, two mobile phones and bank documentation.Those arrested, with a police record, one of them for similar events, have gone to court.Investigations continue to fully clarify the facts.This feature is for subscribers onlyThe most read in SpainYour message has been sent successfullyYour message has been sent successfullyThank you very much for your participation