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Agents of the National Police Corps attached to the Superior Headquarters of the Canary Islands, have arrested three people as alleged perpetrators of crimes of fraud, drug trafficking, document forgery and inducement to crime.
A police statement explains that the investigation began when agents from the Investigation Area of the National Police Corps Police Station of the Central District became aware of a new criminal modality practiced in Las Palmas, consisting of the fraudulent acquisition of new vehicles at Renault dealerships.
The "modus operandi" consisted of using homeless people, preferably drug addicts, whom they cleaned up by grooming them and providing them with new clothes so that they would present a serious and formal appearance.
Subsequently, the detainees opened a bank account for them in which they hypothetically deposited their salaries, using the authentic D.N.I. of the drug addicts and previously falsified payrolls in their name, and later accompanied them to the dealerships to purchase the vehicle. The homeless were paid with drugs or money, leaving no trace of their actions, since the only one who appeared in the documents was the homeless person.
Once the car was purchased, the criminals opted for two ways to profit: they "rented" it to other habitual criminals for their criminal activities with those vehicles, so they would not raise suspicions as they were not known, nor would they leave reliable traces of investigation.
The second option was to resell the car to a second person in collusion with the perpetrators, and this in turn to a third person already unrelated to the events, obtaining the liquid benefit from the sale of the car.
The investigations made it possible to find out that they had carried out this type of operation during the last year in the capital of Gran Canaria, focusing on the aforementioned brand and two different models.
Likewise, it was possible to find out the identity of the perpetrators, being Dimas Jesús G. M., 21 years old, who has 10 arrests, Orlando César M. Q., 35, with two previous records, and Jesús Yeray G. T., 26, with one previous arrest, all of them natives of Las Palmas, being the aforementioned Orlando the one who provided the false payrolls and proof of life, for which he used rubber stamps with the appropriate letterheads.
The investigation determined that the three of them came to create a "company" for which they supposedly worked, seeking to cover themselves as owners or employees in order to justify the money and assets they handled as if they were income from work, when in reality it was from their criminal activities.
A total of twelve cars were acquired by this procedure, with the Police managing to recover all of them, and the amount defrauded being calculated at more than 300,000 euros.
After the pertinent procedures, the three detainees were placed at the disposal of the Judicial Authority, which ordered the imprisonment of the aforementioned Dimas Jesús.
