An Argentine policeman was sentenced by the Cerro Largo Justice, which expelled him from the country, after his connection to numerous scams committed in the country was proven.
According to what was reported by the Cerro Largo journalist, Silvia Techera, the Argentine agent was part of a network of scammers who operated via the web. The investigation showed that the subject was in charge of receiving the money from the scams in his bank account.
The modus operandi is a well-known one: the scammers hacked the social networks of certain people and contacted others close to them. The criminals told them that they needed to sell dollars at an advantageous price, so the victims deposited the money while waiting for the currency.
In this way, fraud was verified against at least nine people from the departments of Cerro Largo (three of them in Melo), Montevideo, Rocha and Artigas. The victims began to report what happened to the Police and the latter acted and blocked the transfers. The intervention of the authorities allowed the recovery of the money: around 800 thousand pesos.
Before the transaction was blocked, the bank informed the Argentine police that a fraudulent movement was registered in his account. However, the subject tried to withdraw the money at a branch in Colonia, which set up the crime.
After completing the judicial instance, the Justice of Cerro Largo sentenced the subject for repeated crimes of reception. The sentence that he must serve corresponds to 12 months in prison that will be served in freedom. Not having a domicile to fix, it was decided to expel the offender from the country for the duration of the sentence, without the possibility of being able to enter the country in the meantime.
