24 and 20 -year -old men approached the victim, stating that moments earlier he had hit his vehicle in theirs. Then they convinced her or forced her to pay a amount to cover the ‘damage’.
At least 11 Elderly were victims of the crime of a burla whose “modus operandi” was the false accident, having been injured in more than 60 thousand eurostoday informed PSP, which detained two men lying in this investigation.
In a statement, PSP’s Lisbon Metropolitan Command (Cometlis) explains to have complied with six search and seizure warrants on Wednesday in Lisboaone in Queluzone in Caneone in Via and the last in Ponta Delgada, us Azores.
The PSP also detention of two men, one 24 years old and one 20 years old, by the prior issuance of two arrest warrants out of flagrant offense.
According to police, the two detainees, with the collaboration of other targets in the process, “circulated with a vehicle on the public road, with the aim of finding a possible victim, and the preferential characteristic of this was their old age.”
After, they approached the victim, stating that moments before he had hit his vehicle in theirs andfollowing the commitment of the crime of circumvents, “They convinced or forced the victim to pay a monetary amount to cover the ‘damage’.”
“Preferably, they asked the victim monetary amounts in cashor if the person did not have this availability went to bank premises and there made transfers of monetary amounts from the victim’s account to a bank account associated with one of the suspects, ”says the PSP note.
This phenomenon was identified earlier this year and, after several investigative steps, it was possible to identify the group that was reiterated to this practice. During the criminal activity carried out by the suspects, they took appropriate the monetary amounts of the victims ascending to 60,000 euros.
According to PSP, At this time, 11 victims are identified, but the authorities admit that there are morewhich, however, did not denounce the facts to the authorities.
Each of the victims was circumvented in values between 1,500 euros and five thousand euros.
One of the slips made to an elderly resulted in the illicit appropriation of about 25,000 euros that was only locked “when the children realized the money account of the father’s bank account,” says PSP.
In home searches, the PSP seized several documents, including information from monetary amounts, two 7.62 mm caliber ammunition, suitable for war weapon, and 2,550 euros in cash.
In addition to the two detainees, two other men and one woman were constituted, also revealed the PSP.
The scam is not new: PSP has warned for years to this practice, but in March it registered one of the crime in parks and gas stations.
