The National Police arrested a man in the Los Asperones neighborhood as the main perpetrator of a theft of 200,000 euros at gunpoint. Another man was also arrested in Torre del Campo (Jaén). The arrested people are of Romanian and Spanish nationality and are aged 41 and 71.
The investigation began in Jaén following a complaint from a person who came from Barcelona to hold a meeting to carry out a cryptocurrency purchase transaction. This meeting, which ultimately turned out to be a ruse to bring the victim with 200,000 euros in cash, took place in an apartment in a central street in the capital of Jaén which, years ago, was a law office.
During it, The victim was pointed at a gun and tied up with zip ties, The criminals managed to steal all the money and flee. After several months of investigation, the agents determined that the main author of the incident, who organized and led the meeting, could be a person residing on the Costa del Sol, obtained the UDEV-ATRACOS group from the Provincial Police Station from Málaga. , specialized in this type of events, locate this person at one of the most conflicting areas of the city, the famous Asperones district.
At the same time, in Torredelcampo (Jaén), we carried out identify another of the organizers of the meeting, this being the one who gave access to the propertyand investigators were struck by the fact that the rightful owners didn’t even know the office was being used by anyone.
The Court of Instruction number 4 of Jaén authorized the respective entry and registration procedures, carried out in the aforementioned provinces of Jaén and Málaga, in which a special 38 caliber revolver, cash, two physical “wallets” of cryptocurrencies, electronic devices and high-end vehicles, including one that carried a warning from Italian authorities.
The operation, still open since the practice of new arrests is not excluded after the analysis of the seized material, highlights the importance of collaboration between the different police units to dismantle criminal networks that operate in different territories. The detainees were placed at the disposal of the competent judicial authority.
