ONE OF THE THEORIES IS THAT SHE ORCHESTRATED THAT SCAM

The wife of the travel organizer was also arrested and both are free with charges

She was arrested on Monday in a bar in Playa Honda. One of the police hypotheses is that she orchestrated the scam and her husband would have been "the victim of a deception" on her part...

June 29 2016 (15:48 WEST)
The travel organizer's wife was also arrested, and both are free on charges.
The travel organizer's wife was also arrested, and both are free on charges.

The wife of Damián Horacio Pueblas was also arrested for the scam of the players of three teams from Lanzarote and a fourth team from Madrid. The National Police has confirmed that, after Pueblas' arrest, they arrested her this Monday afternoon in a well-known bar in Playa Honda. This Tuesday, late in the evening, both were brought to judicial disposition and have been released with charges. They are being investigated for an alleged crime of fraud and must appear in court every 15 days.

According to what La Voz has been able to find out through sources close to the investigation, one of the police hypotheses is that Pueblas' wife, Ivanka Quesada Vizcaíno, could be responsible for the scam and that the organizer would have been "the victim of a deception" on her part. However, now it will be the justice system that determines the responsibility of each one and, for the moment, they are both charged with the same alleged crime of fraud.

The money could have been spent on games of chance


Damián Horacio Pueblas organized the trip of almost 60 players from the island to a grassroots football tournament in San Sebastián and also that of 18 members of a team from the Madrid town of Vicálvaro to the Lanzarote Cup, which was held here last weekend. However, both denounced having been victims of a scam, after discovering that the reservations for their participation in those tournaments were not made, despite the fact that everyone had paid Pueblas the money.

As a result of this, this intermediary was arrested by the Police, who shortly after arrested his wife. According to sources close to the investigation, there is the "extreme" that Pueblas has been "deceived" by her. In fact, as La Voz published this Tuesday, the organizer of these trips filed a complaint against his wife in the Arrecife Courts six days before being arrested.

In it, Pueblas claimed that he had just "discovered" that the money he received from the participants in the Donosti Cup had not reached its destination and blamed his wife for it. "She had a card, which she still has, and put the parents' money in to deposit, something she has not done," he said in court. Pueblas stated that he was aware that she had been "sending money" to an "ex-boyfriend" from La Palma.

Now, the "priority" of the Police is to try to recover the defrauded money, which would range between 40,000 and 60,000 euros in total. However, this could be complicated. According to sources close to the case, it is suspected that most of that money has already been "spent". Among other things, they point to a possible "gambling addiction" on the part of Pueblas' wife.

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