09/15/2021 20:10
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 09/15/2021 20:10
A
Bulgarian
citizen
accused of committing fraud with adulterated credit cards and that he would be part of the gang of hackers that years ago defrauded Bill Gates, was
arrested in the city of Ushuaia
by the Fuegian police.
This is
Petrov Plamen Stoyanov (44)
, who this afternoon refused to testify in the investigation before the investigating judge 3 of the Fuegian capital, Federico Vidal.
Stoyanov was arrested on Tuesday at the Ushuaia airport along with a Venezuelan woman, identified as
Bárbara Alejandrina Borges Pantoja (25),
after it was verified that he had used
cloned cards
to make purchases in shops in the city for about
200 thousand pesos
, according to the police information.
For his part, Borges Pantoja was also investigated, although he agreed to give his version of events and denied having any connection with the scams committed.
Commissioner Víctor Cárdenas, head of the Complex Crimes Division of the Fuegian police, told the press that this force is currently consulting Interpol to corroborate whether Petrov "is the same person mentioned in national and international media who was part of the scam. against Bill Gates ".
The Bulgarian had been
arrested in 2011 in Asunción
, Paraguay, for similar crimes, when he was with Kolarov Aleksey Petrov, nicknamed
"the king of hackers"
, Kavrakov Konstantin Simeonov and Penchev Marchel Dimov.
Aleksey was then wanted by the authorities of Europe and the United States, from a chain of cases of counterfeiting, including the one perpetrated to the detriment of the tycoon and owner of Microsoft, Bill Gates.
Cárdenas specified in official statements that the Ushuaia scam began to be investigated based on an alert issued by the Red Link fraud prevention department.
The commissioner mentioned that the foreign couple carried out
20 operations
with cloned credit and debit cards in at least four commercial premises in Ushuaia.
After the intervention of the investigating judge 3 of the Fuegian capital, Federico Vidal, a search warrant was issued on both moments before they could board the plane with which they intended to leave the city, which they had arrived on Friday.
This measure revealed the discovery of clothing and other objects that had been acquired in the affected businesses.
"The scammers were transferred to police stations and today they were investigated by the intervening judge," concluded Commissioner Cárdenas.
According to judicial spokesmen, the judge now has ten working days to resolve the procedural situation of the detainees, in a case that also includes the intervention of the prosecutor Daniel Curtale.
With information from Télam
DD
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