The National Police have arrested the manager of a nursing home and a caregiver in Seville as alleged perpetrators of a scam of around 200,000 euros against a seriously ill elderly man. Those arrested allegedly managed to appear as authorized in the victim’s bank accounts, make multiple investments and even take out life insurance for a value of 20,000 and 25,000 euros.
The Police have explained in a press release that the investigation began when a complaint was filed stating that the economic assets of an elderly man could be being manipulated by the manager and the caretaker of the center where he himself was admitted due to illness. severe cognitive impairment, which prevented him from being able to function on his own.
The agents were able to discover, after the analysis of the investigations obtained, that from the moment the victim entered the nursing home, their bank accounts began to be emptied, where the two detainees were listed as authorized. Those investigated manipulated the financial assets of the elderly man and, in order to obtain an illegal benefit, made multiple purchases online, contracted investment banking products, life insurance for a value of 20,000 and 25,000 euros, and made monthly withdrawals of large amounts of money. , through bank checks or withdrawing the money directly at ATMs of different branches.
All this did not attract the attention of the banking entities, since it was usual for the center manager to accompany the residents to carry out routine procedures.
After the old man died, those now detained came to collect the life insurance that the deceased allegedly had taken out months before his death and the nursing home closed, the manager disappearing for a while, until he was located when he opened a new business, in another part of the city.
