Starting next Thursday 17, the Valladolid Fair will host a “macro-trial” which will take place 63 people accused of bank fraud and that he allegedly defrauded some 800,000 euros. The facts that the Court will judge, unless the parties reach a last minute agreement, were committed between 2014 and 2016, when the accused, by providing falsified documents, obtained credits, mainly for the acquisition of used vehicles, which they did not subsequently return.
In its letter of qualification, the public prosecutor requests for the 63 defendants a set of sentences totaling more than 540 years in prisonwhile in terms of civil liability, compensation is requested which together exceeds 780,000 euros for the benefit of the injured banking entities.
THE seven leaders of the organization -AI Bastidas, JM Pastor, MY López, B. Miguel, RA Posligua, S. Peláez and A. Melus- face sentences of 18 years in prison for a continuing offense of fraud in a media tender with a continuing offense of documentary lying, another of membership in a criminal group and a third of money laundering. In addition, 23 other people They risk twelve years in prison and for 26 other defendants, the prosecutor demands five years in prison, according to Ical.
The organizers carried out previous studies in various banks and once the conditions required to grant a loan are known, They falsified documents and selected people who personally applied for the loans which, in most cases, were for the purchase of used cars. Additionally, others involved in the conspiracy were dedicated to making deposits into the accounts of the people applying for the loans, which claimed to come from the payrolls of nonexistent jobs, to deceive the bank employees.
According to the prosecutor, the manipulations affected not only the document in which the purpose of the loan was reflected, but also, since it was essential to show the solvency required by the banks, the pay slips, the bank statements, the personal income tax returns and life insurance. employment reports, which the applicants accompanied with the credit application.
With the leaders, to carry out the plans, the gang used the people who applied for the loansfully aware of their income, their professional background and the fact that they had never managed to buy any vehicle. Once the loan was granted and the money deposited into the applicant’s account, minus a part which was kept by the credit applicant, the rest of the money reached the hands of the network organizers, either by transfers to their checking accounts , either by cash deposits or by hand delivery of money.
In many cases, control of current accounts remained in the hands of the group’s managers, to whom the beneficiaries of the credits gave the necessary keys to operate with them.
THE financial entities concerned for the scam are Caixabank, Caja Laboral, Bankia, ING Bank, Banco Santander, Caja Rural de Zamora, Banco Popular, Bankinter, Abanca, BBVA, Banco Celetem, as well as different financial services.
This is the second time that a macro case has had to be transferred from the Provincial Court of Valladolid to the Fair given the large number of defendants sitting in the dock. On another occasion, in 2018, also for a scam case.
