Romanian man, named as A.L.L., has been arrested in Chiclana on suspicion of fraudulent online sales of more than 400,000 € in at least 7 countries. He is understood to have a previous record for similar crimes.
His victims included residents of the UK, Germany, Austria, Belgium and Holland, who, in some cases, paid over sums of more than 5,000 € for non-existent goods, and transferred the money into bank accounts he had set up under false identities at a number of branches across Andalucía. EFE reports that the suspect used passports which had either been stolen or lost in their country of issue to set up the accounts, and never used his own identity.
Detectives began investigations in ‘Operation Bandit’ after they discovered that an unknown fraudster had recently set up a fraudulent account in Córdoba at the beginning of the year.
Although his identity was still unknown at this stage, it was later discovered that he planned to visit a bank in Chiclana and police were waiting there when he arrived at the branch to withdraw a large amount of money with the fake passport he had used to set up the account.
EFE indicates that the police are now trying to locate the victims of his online fraud.
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