The complaint states that some men paid him for the purchase of 67,000 kilos of corn with a check for G. 113,900,000 that had no funds. According to Fick, these people posed as owners of a company that is dedicated to the purchase and sale of agricultural products.
The first time he did business with them they bought him a load of corn, they paid him with a check, which Arlan cashed without any problem at the bank.
But now the so-called businessmen returned to take two loads of corn and paid with a check, only this time the account had no funds and they defrauded the farmer.
After the police investigation it was learned that these people opened an account in a local bank, withdrew a checkbook and began to issue payments without having funds. Events similar to what happened to Arlan Fick were also reported in Alto Paraná and Concepción.
Juan Villalba, Francisco Centurión, Milcidades Notario and Sinforiano Sanabria are some of the members of the gang that is carrying out this type of scam, according to the police.
The investigators also tracked the load of corn that was stolen from Fick and some 25,000 kilos of the product had already been resold in Capiatá by the criminals.
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