The Civil Guard of Lanzarote has arrested two people, O.A., 31 years old and a native of Benin, and A.A., 27 years old and of Cameroonian origin, for an alleged crime of fraud, using the negative or dye scam procedure, or in English slang wash-wash, which consists of the perpetrators of the scam making the victim believe that they have cut and fractioned paper as currency, dyed black and that with a reaction based on chemical substances, it is cleaned and the dye disappears, becoming bills of various values.
Agents of the Judicial Police Team of the Civil Guard learned, since the beginning of February of this year, that two people of African origin were contacting several businessmen on the island to carry out the well-known scam.
From the steps taken, it was determined that one of the scammers was staying in hotel complexes, for short periods of time and in which he used documentation from other people of foreign origin, specifically French and Togolese, to evade police and judicial action. In turn, they had a home in the town of Arrecife that they used to carry out the necessary preparations to commit criminal offenses, as well as hide the material goods obtained.
Within the framework of the investigations already initiated and having knowledge again of the complaint of several businessmen in mid-June, the operation resulted in the arrest of the two men and the dismantling of the plot.
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