PUERTO DEL ROSARIO (FUERTEVENTURA), 16 (EUROPA PRESS)
La Guardia Civil has investigated a 61-year-old woman residing in Tarragona for a crime of fraud and another of money laundering after illicitly accessing the banking application of a woman from Fuerteventura and taking 16,000 euros from her, which she then transferred to a cryptocurrency Exchange.
The Benemérita reported this in a press release, explaining that the alleged perpetrator, before converting the money into cryptocurrencies, made a bank transfer from the victim’s account to her own personal account, which allowed her identity to be known.
The investigation began in November 2024 when a neighbor from the town of Morro Jable reported being a victim of banking fraud, where a charge was made to her bank account without her consent.
This way, the ‘Equipo @’ from Fuerteventura analyzed and tracked the transferred money, concluding that the perpetrator first transferred the 16,000 euros to her own personal account before sending them to a cryptocurrency platform. As a result, the holder of the beneficiary account was located and identified, a woman residing in Tarragona who was subsequently investigated.
