Since last year, a private company has been all the rage for giving away money in cryptocurrencies to people
who have their iris scanned
.
The project, famous throughout the world, had an unexpected consequence in the north of Greater Buenos Aires:
three criminals found out
that a man had supposedly charged 200,000 pesos for an eye exam and
stabbed him to death in front of his partner
to rob him. .
The murder occurred around 11 pm on Thursday in a house located at 1400 Los Olivos Street, between Jorge Newbery and Mariano Paillette, from the
town of Manuel Alberti
, in the Pilar district.
Matías Daniel Ferreyra (38)
, had just arrived home with his partner, named Mayra Vallejos, when they were surprised by three criminals who
forcibly entered
the home they shared.
At that moment, one of the thieves hit the woman on the back of the head and the two accomplices grabbed the man, whom they grabbed by the neck.
They threatened him and
demanded the delivery of a specific sum of money
.
"
Give me the 200,000 pesos for the iris of my eye
," they repeated to Ferreyra while they beat him, according to the sources.
After that, one of the murderers attacked him with a knife that was on a counter and
stabbed him in the abdomen area
.
The woman tried to explain to them that
she had not been able to withdraw the money from the ATM
, but the criminals did not believe her and injured Ferreyra again, who was later locked in a bathroom.
Olivos at 1400, the street in the town of Manuel Alberti where the murder occurred.
Capture Google Street View.
Finally, the thieves
took just 2,000 pesos and a cell phone
.
The man was rushed to the Central Hospital of Pilar, where
he died after 2 in the morning
.
The wife's cousin, suspected of having handed them over
The iris scanning project is promoted by a private company that calls on people, in exchange for
a sum of money paid in cryptocurrencies
, to undergo a simple maneuver that observes the iris of their eye.
According to the company, iris scanning allows the
unequivocal identification of the person
through a physical characteristic that does not change throughout life and iris recognition systems are often used in airport security or some banks.
Personnel from the Manuel Alberti police station established that
a cousin of the woman passed the information on to the criminals:
she revealed that the couple had charged 200 thousand pesos for having undergone that examination.
In addition, investigators discovered that the suspect had sent
repeated WhatsApp messages and audios
to find out if they had already been paid and if they were already in the house where the crime was committed.
The accused was arrested and in the last hours she refused to testify before the prosecutor, who
accused her of the crime of "homicide during robbery
. "
Meanwhile, investigators would have identified three co-perpetrators of the crime: a 24-year-old woman (she would be a relative of the detainee), and two men, 25 and 39,
Pilar said daily
.
Scientific Police personnel seized a knife at the crime scene that will be examined for traces.
He also took three cell phones.