The Civil Guard of the Main Post of Costa Teguise arrested two people on June 28, a 65-year-old male and a 32-year-old male, as alleged perpetrators of a bank fraud, for making ten unauthorized charges on a card for an amount of 1,770 euros.
After receiving the complaint from the victim, who did not know who had made the charges, the investigators requested collaboration from a global company used as a payment gateway that supports money transfers between users, which identified one of the detainees as the account holder.
Subsequently, the bank was asked for the ownership of the cards used in the payment platform account, identifying the two alleged perpetrators and providing a mobile phone number of the user, whose ownership belonged to one of the detainees.
"After all this, it was proven that one of those involved had access to the bank card used because he lives with the victim, as he is the partner of the latter's granddaughter," explains the Civil Guard. To do this, he created an account in his father's name, who is the second detainee, using his personal data to make payments on different cryptocurrency and sports betting platforms.
The Investigation Area of the aforementioned Unit took charge of the instruction of the proceedings, proceeding to the arrest of the two individuals and sending the proceedings to the Investigating Court on duty in the town of Arrecife.
