A 45 -year -old taxi driver was arrested last Tuesday at L’Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona) as the alleged perpetrator of two crimes of improper appropriation and two crimes of fraud with the use of bank card.
As reported by the body in a statement, between November and December of 2024, two victims denounced that someone had extracted cash from their accounts without their consent and both people agreed that someone I had exchanged the card and now they had one that was not their propertyall this hours after having taken a taxi in Barcelona.
The investigation advanced with the security images of one of the banking entitiesand the agents were able to solve the case and identify and stop the author, a man who worked in a taxis fleet.
The researchers concluded that the detainee He took advantage of his taxi driver to cheat people and chose elderly victims Given their vulnerability and always acted in the same way: it showed that the pin they put in the Dataphone to pay did not work and observed the secret code.
Later caused the client cardE fell among the taxi seats And, at that time, it changed it to another of similar characteristics; Once the victim of the taxi left, with the card and the PIN, he came to extract 1,800 euros in cash cash. The man accumulated a police record.
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