Agents of the National Police have arrested the director of a bank office in the Madrid town of Leganés for defrauding one of her clients, an elderly woman, of the amount of 85,000 euros through the use of a card that she had contracted in her name. of the injured party.

The alleged author, thanks to the aforementioned card contracted in the name of the injured party, made multiple withdrawals at ATMs from the end of 2020 to the beginning of this year, as reported by the Madrid Police Headquarters in a statement.

The police investigation, supported by suspicions from the victim’s family environment, focused on the aforementioned director, who had changed her attitude towards the victim in recent months, since she had been her advisor and processor of various financial operations for a long time. with a very close and daily treatment.

Furthermore, the person under investigation responded evasively to family requests to inform them of what was happening with the monetary funds of the affected person, so the suspicions of the family environment focused on her.

The now detained woman took advantage of the situation of the victim, an elderly woman with health problems, a circumstance that she used to formalize a contract for the issuance of a debit card in the name of the client, which she took possession of and with the who carried out different money extraction operations.

During the investigation, the agents carried out the necessary checks to physically locate the bank director in the places where the withdrawals were made, subsequently proceeding to arrest her and place her at the disposal of the judicial authority as the alleged perpetrator of a crime of fraud.