The Civil Guard, within the framework of the Ponos operation, has arrested 13 people, between the ages of 19 and 59, for the commission of a total of 629 criminal acts involving at least 209 victims throughout the national territory.
They are charged with the crimes of fraud, documentary falsification, identity theft, disclosure of secrets, misappropriation, against public health and belonging to a criminal group.
Agents from the @ Team of the Civil Guard discovered that there was a large volume of fraud complaints in which the perpetrators were using the same modus operandi.
The criminals, after obtaining a photograph of the DNI of their victims, supplanted their identity and acquired products through the Internet, financing them in their name.
Later, when they received the goods, they resold them through applications and pages for the sale of second-hand items.
Given the similarity of the criminal acts, the Ponos operation was created and investigative procedures were put into practice to find out the perpetrators’ operations and completely clarify their identity in order to present them to justice.
It was possible to verify that the authors falsified pay slips and other documents that are also required to open bank accounts and contract telephone lines.
With this, they managed to create a criminal network that affected at least 209 victims who created debts with various credit institutions and telephone providers and from which the perpetrators managed to obtain more than one million euros.
The Social Security Treasury examined all the payslips and personal data provided by the agents.
Thanks to this first study, this administration used the same parameters and managed to identify a higher number of affected than those that existed at the beginning, clarifying that the total number of victims amounted to 209.
Those affected resided throughout the national territory.
Likewise, a joint device was designed that allowed clarifying the identity of the components of the criminal group and its operations.
Thus it was possible to verify that the group had regional operational cells in other parts of Spain: Huelva, Valencia, Tarragona and Barcelona.
These groups infiltrated their staff in strategic jobs with which to obtain the necessary documentation from their victims to perpetrate the crimes.
For the exploitation of the operation, a total of seven registrations will be made in homes and one in an establishment in the Valencian towns of Játiva, Benetússer, Quart de Poblet, Hospitalet de Llobregat, San Pere de la Molanta or Valencia city.
Almost a hundred Civil Guard agents were mobilized to carry out these searches.
In them it was possible to seize various documents proving the commission of the crimes investigated, in addition to the goods that they acquired with the credits that they requested in the name of the victims and that they had not yet sold.
During the searches, 10 kilograms of marijuana, several doses of cocaine and precision scales were also seized.
Thanks to these records, it was also possible to find out that the heads of the different regional cells had leaders who coordinated to commit the crimes, transferring the Autonomous Communities to try to hinder police work.
The members of the organization constantly changed homes, sent money abroad and used more than 700 different telephone lines to communicate and commit crimes.
On one of the top managers of the organization weighed 23 judicial requisitions from various courts throughout Spain.
Another of them, who also falsified medical prescriptions to obtain prescription drugs, tried to flee, hiding in an illegally occupied social center.
He was arrested when he was in a vehicle that was stolen in 2022 and was able to be recovered.
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