Civil Guard agents have arrested a man as the alleged perpetrator of 13 scams at service stations with a card associated with the transport company where he worked. As a result of the alleged fraud, it caused economic damage of approximately 2,000 euros.
The investigation began, within the framework of operation ‘SOL23’, after learning of the commission of a crime of fraud due to non-payment for refueling. After the first investigations, the agents noticed up to 13 incidents with the same ‘modus operandi’ and characteristics at different gas stations in the province of Valencia, as reported by the armed institute in a statement.
The author’s ‘modus operandi’ consisted of making fraudulent use of a payment card that, apparently, he had misappropriated and that was associated with a vehicle of the transport company for which he worked.
The suspects refueled large quantities of diesel in bottles that he paid for with the aforementioned card and, later, with the purchased diesel, he used it for his own interest or resold it to acquaintances.
The author accessed service stations with vehicles with bent license plates, so investigators found out that a couple of hours before committing the alleged theft, the suspect had stolen the license plates of a van to place them on the vehicle used. .
In addition, the man appropriated a mobile terminal belonging to the company, which he used to commit the scams. In this way, he made fraudulent use of a credit card in her name after carrying out unauthorized operations worth 900 euros.
After his identification, the Civil Guard learned that the author, a 36-year-old man of Spanish nationality, was admitted to the Picassent prison. The detainee is charged with the continued crimes of fraud, document falsification, theft, misappropriation and another of fraud.
Agents from the Paiporta company have participated in the action and the proceedings have been delivered to the Court of First Instance and Instruction No. 4 of Catarroja.
