The National Police have arrested a 49-year-old woman in Zaragoza as allegedly responsible for a crime of Social Security fraud and another of document falsification, and her 18-year-old son as the alleged perpetrator of a minor crime of fraud, for continuing to collect a social benefit in the name of the detainee’s mother, who died in February 2021.
The detainees, with police records, were brought to justice this Wednesday and were released with charges. The investigation remains open, in order to find out the exact number of participants in the theft, police sources have reported.
The events date back to last November on Conde Aranda Street in Zaragoza, where three young people stole a man’s wallet. Hours later, the alleged perpetrators rented two scooters by fraudulently using the victim’s credit card.
Thus, the agents find out that the phone number of the user who had rented the scooters was registered in 2022 in the name of a woman who died in 2021.
Given this suspicious telephone call, the agents opened another line of investigation to try to find out this inconsistency. In a few weeks, after doing different checks on the deceased’s bank accounts, they discovered that she had continued to receive a benefit under the concept of “Benefit Dependency in the Family Environment” since her death in February 2021. In total, 36 benefits of an average of 400 euros have been fraudulently collected, amounting to more than 13,000 euros in total.
In the following proceedings carried out, the police testify that the daughter of the deceased, after receiving the monthly payment in her mother’s account, transferred it that same day or the next day to her personal accounts, proving that she benefited unduly and from continuously since February 2021.
