07/28/2020 - 14:12
- Clarín.com
- Police
The man forgot his debit card at the ATM, which was warned by another customer, who alerted the bank security guard. But the employee, instead of turning it over to the authorities, copied the data and ended up making seven transfers to his accounts for $ 65,000.
After the complaint of the victim -a lawyer-, an investigation began that led to a raid in the Parque Chacabuco neighborhood, where the suspect was arrested, who was later released.
According to Télam , the accused is a 23-year-old young man, an employee of the Prosegur company, assigned to security tasks at the Banco Santander branch located on 692 Callao Avenue, on the corner of Tucumán, on the border of Balvanera and Recoleta.
His address at Avenida Assembly at 1500 was raided last Thursday by agents of the Bank Fraud Division of the City Police.
They accuse a bank guardian of transferring $ 65 thousand to their accounts with a debit card forgotten by a customer.
As the crime he is charged with - scams through electronic means - is expendable, the guard was not arrested, but was notified of the charge against him.
The court order was to kidnap all the electronic devices from which he was able to make the transfers, so the Bank Fraud detectives took from his home a PC, a tablet and two cell phones that will be assessed, plus some papers from the company of security for which you work.
This is a joint investigation of the 30th Prosecutor's Office of Marcela Sánchez and the 5th Court of Manuel de Campos, both of the criminal and correctional jurisdiction, which began last May when a lawyer reported that some 65,000 pesos had been diverted from his bank account with transfers that he had not made.
They accuse a bank guardian of transferring $ 65 thousand to their accounts with a debit card forgotten by a customer.
" In two days, May 4 and 5, they made seven transfers , six of 10,000 pesos each and a seventh for 5,000," one of the researchers told Télam .
Other sources added that a series of purchases were made from the victim's account and even the electronic payment of a series of services that the lawyer was unaware of.
The electronic fraud was quickly associated with the fact that the complaining lawyer said that in those days he had gone to Banco Santander on Callao and Tucumán avenue, where he forgot his debit card at the mouthpiece of one of the ATMs.
According to what could be reconstructed in the investigation, a client who had operated at the ATM next to the lawyer's office noticed that someone had forgotten a card and gave it to one of the security guards who worked in the attention rooms at public.
"The custodian retired with the card to one of the offices, but later returned to the classroom and placed it in an ATM for the terminal to swallow and thus not arouse suspicion , but we believe that in the time he had it in his Power copied all the data to be able to later do the fraud, ”explained a source from the investigation.
After verifying that the transfers and expenses made from the victim's account were linked to a security guard who worked at that branch, the prosecutor Sánchez requested the search of her home and her investigation.
The provisional cover is an infraction of article 173, subsection 15 of the Penal Code, which punishes with imprisonment from one month to six years for those who “defraud through the use of a purchase, credit or debit card, when it has been falsified, adulterated, stolen , stolen, lost or obtained from the legitimate issuer through trickery or trickery, or through the unauthorized use of your data, even if it were done through an automatic operation ”.
After the procedure in the employee's house, the judge sent the seized electronic devices to the City Police Department to analyze the Computer Intelligence Analysis Division, to confirm if he used any of them for this fraud and to establish whether it was author of other similar acts that have other bank clients as victims.
Judicial sources indicated that the date of the investigation will be defined after these expert reports are ready.
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