Agents of the National Police have arrested a man in Alicante as the alleged perpetrator of a crime of usurpation of civil status, after using the digital signature of an acquaintance to process the request to vote by mail and exercise this right in his name in the past regional and municipal elections.
The investigation began at the end of last June, when agents belonging to the Provincial Information Brigade of the Higher Headquarters of Valencia learned that a resident of this town had not been able to exercise her right to vote in the May 28 elections. , since someone would have done it on his behalf.
The agents found out that the request to vote by mail had been made from the city of Alicante, and identified its author, who had a working relationship with the victim, reports the National Police.
Apparently, the woman gave the suspect the keys to her digital signature for completing her income tax returns, and the man used them without her knowledge or consent to request a vote by mail and exercise this right on her behalf.
The victim discovered the facts when she went to vote and could not exercise her right since someone had voted by usurping her identity. The agents, with the collaboration of the Provincial Information Brigade of Alicante, arrested the man as the alleged perpetrator of a crime of usurpation of marital status.
The arrested person, 37 years old and of Spanish origin, with a police record, was released after being heard in a statement, with the legal obligation to appear before the judicial authority when required.
