Two people, including a ringleader of a criminal network, charged with the crime of aggravated fraud; provisional detention was decreed, this during the hearings of multiple requests, at the request of the Fifth Section of Crimes Against Economic Patrimony of the Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office.
It should be noted that he is pending charges for other acts of the same crime.
According to the Public Ministry, these people were apprehended last Tuesday, October 25, 2022, in Operation ‘Ardid’, carried out by the Fifth Section of Crimes Against the Economic Patrimony of the Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office in conjunction with the National Police, in the districts of Tocumen and December 24.
They highlighted that those arrested are part of a structured criminal organization, which is allegedly dedicated to the sale of cars, altering the unique vehicle registration, at the time that the victims took the purchased vehicle, it was recovered by being tracked by GPS, and they sold it. again through social networks to other people.
Likewise, they rented vehicles to lessors with false documentation, altered vehicle registration documents and sold them; This investigation began in February 2022 and there are approximately 20 victims, with a patrimonial injury that exceeds 120 thousand balboas.
In ‘Operation Ardid’, 10 raids were carried out, where two firearms and more than 4,000 balboas in cash were found at the residence of one of the main members of the criminal group.
They will continue to be presented in the next few hours, before guarantee judges for the imputation of other cases, where they have been denounced.
