The Civil Guard of Las Palmas, within the framework of Operation BENSIN, arrested on February 12, 2025, a 44-year-old person, as the alleged perpetrator of a crime of misappropriation, and is investigating a network of employees of a well-known car rental company in the Canary Islands.
The Civil Guard of Lanzarote was alerted to a possible financial crime on October 7, 2024. An executive reported on irregularities detected in his company during an internal audit. The investigation revealed discrepancies in multiple financial transactions, which alerted to these illicit activities, allegedly committed by employees of the company itself.
During the past year 2024, the car rental company detected, through internal audit and supervision channels, alleged irregularities in the management of the amounts deposited as a deposit, with discrepancies between the official documentation in the possession of the company and the economic transactions related to them.
According to the Civil Guard, the company has shown "its total commitment and collaboration in the investigation, committed to its reputation and principles of transparency", because the company "was not aware of the irregular activity of its employees, given that the irregularities were undetectable through the usual control systems, having returned the claimed amounts to the tenants".
Therefore, the Civil Guard of Lanzarote requested collaboration from the Arroba Team of Las Palmas, which, within the tasks entrusted to them in the exercise of their specific functions in the area of Cybercrime, collected all the data on the events that occurred and carried out the appropriate police investigations.
For the clarification of the facts, the corresponding procedures were carried out, analyzing the information provided by the company and evidence was collected and statements were taken to carry out the pertinent actions for the arrest of one of the people related to this illicit activity.
At the moment, no more details have been provided about the amount of money involved or about the participation of more people. The Operation remains open and the possibility of more arrests of the network is not ruled out.
