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Super Scammer Made €2.7m From Multiple Cons In Spain By Using 55 Identities To Open 364 Bank Accounts – Olive Press News Spain
A VALENCIA scammer made over €2.7 million in six years by running multiple cons and using 55 identities to open 364 bank accounts to launder his illegal income.
The Policia Nacional have arrested the 38-year-old Romanian man over a variety of charges and he’s been jailed by a judge.
His partner was also detained after she assaulted police officers during the arrest process.
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The conman ran a variety of scams including bogus holiday home rentals, sales of non-existent products, and the so-called CEO scam, which alerted authorities in 2022.
The con involves a victim getting an email claiming to be from a company they did business with.
They then made a bank transfer to a fraudulent account, which had been opened with fake documents which allegedly belonged to the company.
The police discovered the person who opened the account never lived at the Valencia address that he supplied to open it and that he made many ATM withdrawals around the city and the surrounding area.
All of the bank accounts were opened in person and multiple addresses in the city were used to receive bank cards and documentation.
Officers noted that the same person appeared in all of the photos used in the identity documents that originated from various countries.
55 bogus identities were created using papers from Denmark, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
The thorough police investigation revealed the man had been scamming since at least 2018.
Despite his real identity being pinned down last February, he was difficult to find because he constantly changed his address.
He was eventually found outside a rental property that he shared with his girlfriend.
Four passports from Poland, Denmark, Slovakia and the Czech Republic were seized, along with four EU citizenship certificates and two Romanian identity cards- all of which had different names.
His arrest has also been reported to numerous courts and prosecutors across Spain as well as European bodies.
Alicante Province
John George: Suspect is released on bail over murder of Belfast father-of-two in Alicante
A TORREVIEJA judge bailed a 32-year-old Czech man on Friday over his connection to the murder of Belfast father-of-two John George, whose body was found on a farm in Rojales, Alicante province.
The Czech national was detained shortly after the body’s discovery on Tuesday.
A source from the Valencian High Court said: “The judge is currently attributing to him a crime of homicide as an accomplice or by aiding and abetting the crime.”
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The unnamed Czech will have to report to a court every 15 days and has had his passport withdrawn as well as being ordered not to leave Spain.
George’s family claim the killer was a drug trafficker- also from Northern Ireland- and that he has fled to Thailand.
John George was last heard from on December 14, when he made a ‘distressing’ phone call to his family after going to the Orihuela Costa for a holiday.
His father, Billy, urged him to return home on a flight he had booked for four days later.
He was due to drive from Cabo Roig to Benidorm on December 14 but never arrived.
His family insisted early on that he was ‘lured’ to Spain before being shot to death by an acquaintance.
The alleged killer- according to John George’s family- is a drug trafficker with links to the paramilitary loyalist Ulster Defence Association.
Billy George has named six people on social media as suspects in the death of his son.
They include the detained Czech national and the man who flew to Thailand, as well as his girlfriend.
An autopsy confirmed that Mr. George had been shot dead.
His body was hidden among some trees on a lemon farm in Rojales- 25 kms away from Cabo Roig.
A witness in the case phoned his family saying that a person had admitted carrying out the killing and that one of the suspects had taken the gun to ‘clean it up’.
In the same call, the person said that at around 10pm on December 14, John George left his Cabo Roig apartment with another man, who returned home a few hours later with the weapon and confessed to having shot him.
10 most wanted criminals
Polish drug lord is caged in Murcia after making Spain’s Top 10 Most Wanted list
A POLISH fugitive named as one of Spain’s ’10 most wanted’ criminals has surrendered to police in Murcia because the added exposure put him under ‘severe’ pressure.
Marek Dawid Legiec, 32, had a European Arrest Warrant issued in his name by Polish authorities for running an international drug trafficking gang that had links to Germany and Spain.
Three years ago, the Policia Nacional received information that he could be hiding in Spain.
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Legiec took many precautions to avoid being found, using bogus names and changing homes on numerous occasions.
After police drew a blank in their investigations, it was decided to feature the fugitive in a ’10 most wanted’ campaign with extensive publicity in the media and on social networks.
The unwelcome spotlight on Legiec forced him to voluntarily turn himself in at the El Carmen district police station in Murcia City.
The Pole admitted to officers that the ‘most wanted’ initiative had put him under severe pressure.
He added that his ability to move around had been compromised and that he was living in ‘unsustainable’ circumstances.
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