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After an arduous investigation carried out by PDI detectives, in coordination with the Public Ministry, the arrest of a woman in Talca was achieved, after establishing that she fraudulently used the credit card of a older couple whom he cared for.
During the first quarter of this year, investigating officers from the Economic Crimes Brigade (Bridec) developed the necessary steps to prove the facts after the complaint filed by the victims’ children in late January. The 25-year-old woman was hired in her capacity as a nursing technician to care for this couple of elderly adults from 89 years old.
The information gathered by the detectives of the Bridec de Talca allowed the local Prosecutor’s Office to manage an arrest warrant against the accused. In the police proceeding, the PDI seized some of the technological objects and equipment that were acquired by the defendant through fraud. However, much of the money spent was used to pay for services in restaurants, purchases in commercial premises, money orders at ATMs and repairs of a vehicle.
“It is important to monitor bank accounts in order to detect unusual movements of money early, which are not executed by the holders,” said the head of the Bridec Talca, deputy prefect Luis García.
Meanwhile, the prosecutor María Lorena González stated that the alleged author of such crimes was formalized for the crime of Fraudulent Use of Credit or Debit Card.
He added that, taking advantage of the physical and mental limitations, as well as the breach of trust, it stole a credit card with which it carried out -between the months of December and January of this year- around 150 transactions with a loss to these victims of approximately $ 10 million.
He explained that the defendant was under precautionary measures corresponding to the signature three times a week, national roots and the absolute prohibition of approaching those affected.
Fortuitous finding
The victims’ daughter reported that her parents previously resided in Temuco. However, and due to their advanced age and that none of their children lived near them, it was decided to transfer them to the city of Talca.
“But they, wanting to preserve their autonomy they preferred to live alone. For greater security, I hired caretaker services, especially to prevent falls – which had already occurred in the past – so that at no time were they really alone and helped in any difficult situation, ”he said.
He added that for this he hired a person referred by a company specialized in this type of care, which remained working inside the house for these purposes for more than nine months, alternating with two other people during shifts during the day and night. .
He claimed that he accidentally noticed the fraudulent use of the Banco Bice debit card – where the amount for which a property had been sold in the city of Temuco was deposited – when he asked a close relative check correspondence that he was still arriving at the family residence located in the regional capital of Araucanía.
“On January 30 to make the payments on the accounts, I ask him to check the correspondence and a letter from Bice appears and my aunt reads it to me and describes a lot of expenses, but by the system we have here (their parents ) had no expenses, “he said.
Complaint against defendant
It was then when he realized that among the movements registered by said bank card there were more than a hundred transactions between expenses and money orders during a period of almost two months.
“We immediately went to the bank and got the cards. We analyzed the type of expenses and saw that the person (allegedly) is guilty I had posted photos, consuming in places that coincided on the dates with the expenses that appeared in the map, “he said.
He added that the resignation of this person also made him a suspect in this fact, by hinting that he would have been offered a better job opportunity.
He ruled out the involvement of third parties in this crime, also confirming the filing of legal complaints against the accused.
A “hostile” bank
Regarding the actions of the bank, he described it as “disconcerting”, cataloging his treatment towards his parents as disadvantaged clients as “hostile” due to the lack of consideration regarding their age, as they were not attended to in the office in Talca and there is no formal communication regarding the contracted insurance guarantees, as well as the return of the amounts usurped in this crime.
That is why he described as negligent the actions of Banco Bice, a financial institution that he also warned with initiating legal actions against them, “because -to this day- this matter has not been resolved.”
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