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THE COUNTRY | MANIZALES
The authorities reported the arrests of six people, as allegedly responsible for the theft of $ 2,443,443,440,500 from an account of the University of Caldas, in December 2018.
On the 10th of that month the alarms went off in the financial area of the higher education institution, when the Banco Popular informed them that suspicious transactions had been detected.
Although they managed to reverse transfers for $ 1,200 million 352 thousand 354, it was later discovered that in the previous days $ 1,243 million 88 thousand 146 disappeared, apparently from the same account.
During the investigations, it was established that the criminals used malicious software, with which they managed to appropriate the data necessary to transfer the money to six Bancolombia accounts.
In the investigation conducted by the Prosecutor’s Office, selective searches, film records and fingerprint checks were carried out. Similarly, it was specified that the illegal banking operations were carried out on December 6, 7 and 10, 2018.
The band
The Sijín of the Metropolitan Police of Manizales and the CTI carried out the investigations that led to the identification of five men and one woman, who appeared as owners of the accounts to which the University money was fraudulently transferred.
The code name of the structure was the Carding, dedicated to commit thefts by computer means and with at least one of its members involved in other similar acts.
A man known by the alias of León, 29, was identified as the leader of the fraud. Among his collaborators is the 18-year-old woman, known as Crofort.
The Prosecutor’s Office indicated that the woman detained today is linked to another process of theft by computer means that a local prosecutor’s office in Salamina is carrying out, due to events that occurred in March of this year.
His capture took place in Bucaramanga, after a search procedure in which 16 credit cards and a dataphone were also found. The other four involved are men between the ages of 29 and 71.
The other captures occurred in Bogotá, Tunja, Caicedonia (Valle) and Yopal (Casanare). Three were sent to jail and the rest were issued a home security measure.
The imputation
The Prosecutor’s Office imputed charges of theft by computer means, in a heterogeneous contest, aggravated violation of personal data, before the Seventh Municipal Criminal Court with the Function of Control of Guarantees of Manizales.
