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Arrested for supplanting the mail of the Spanish Basketball Federation and defrauding 143,400 dollars

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games match between USA and Spain. (Photo: Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games match between USA and Spain. (Photo: Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Agents of the National Police have arrested a man in Malaga as the alleged perpetrator of a crime of fraud, since he allegedly managed to supplant the email of the Spanish Federation of Baloncesto (FEB) to divert a transfer that his American counterpart had to make on the occasion of a match played by the Spanish National Team in the United States.

The 63-year-old man and owner of a bank account located in a branch in the capital of Malaga, received 143,432 dollars, the investigators managing to block and recover 91,490 euros, the provincial police station reported in a statement.

The investigation started after the complaint from the Spanish Basketball Federation, filed in November 2021, at the Chamartín National Police Station (Madrid). In it, it was reported that, after the celebration of a meeting between the basketball teams of Spain and the United States, they should have received the agreed amount of 143,432 dollars from the American federation.

After the detailed investigation, it was verified that allegedly through social engineering of data collection, the address of the FEB was supplanted and contacted with the American federation to communicate a change of bank account, where the payment should take place, this scam being known as Man in the middel.

The agents found out that the office that received the payment was located in the capital of Malaga, making operational coordination necessary from that moment on with Group I of Economic Crimes of the Malaga Provincial Police Station.

Once the appropriate steps were taken with the bank branch, the agents verified that, initially, a total of 143,432 dollars would have been transferred to said account. In addition, they observed that an extraction of money had already been made, subtracting a total amount of 91,490 euros from the account. For this reason, the blocking of the account was requested to avoid subsequent movements and the intervention of the money.

Thus, on June 15, the account holder was located and arrested by investigators. This had a history of the same nature. The arrested and the instructed official were placed at the disposal of the Investigating Court number 11 of Madrid.

This article originally appeared on El HuffPost and has been updated.

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