The National Police arrested in Melillafour employees from a games room have allocated more than 300,000 euros every time they did the clients change money from a bank card to cash for “slot machines” or recreational machines.
City Arcade Owner Files Complaint complaint in its premises, arguing that during a review of your accounting detected a large number of withdrawal movements money exchange machine did not correspond to the charges brought by dataphone to customers, as confirmed by a spokesperson for the Superior Police Prefecture.
This made him suspect the existence of a significant loss of money during the first seven months of the year, which is why there was proceeded to dismiss the employees involved immediately.
The Specialized Unit for Violent Crime (UDEV) took charge of the investigation. During three weeks of work, its agents carried out, among other things: police investigationsto the exhaustive search of the aforementioned currency exchange machine, to the viewing of security camera footage provided by the company, to the analysis of bank transactions and to the taking of statements from several witnesses.
After this work, the agents “were able to see that this was a common practice for Employees extracted more coins from the coin dispenser than those that the customer had paid through an ATM and, sometimes, directly without having received the payment,” the agent said.
However, at no time was this money replaced, with the cash dispenser displaying a deficit exceeding 300,000 euros without justificationaccumulated from January 1 to July 31 of this year, “for which four former employees were arrested as allegedly responsible for the events for the crime of embezzlement.”
Modus operandi of the prisoners
As detailed by the police spokesman, the detainees were based on company confidence by providing employees with a card to unlock the changing machineto be able to carry out operations for paying out winnings, exchanging coins or withdrawing cash.
“THE normal practice is that once the payment was received by the customer’s dataphone, the equivalent amount in coins was provided to him for later use in the various gaming and betting machines,” he said.
However, the National Police were able to observe that the employees were extracting double or triple what they paid for in coins. the customer in the ‘Payment Dataphone’ concept and sometimes they would withdraw coins without any prior card fees.
