SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, July 6. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The National Police has dismantled on the island of Tenerife a continuous scam of more than 800,000 euros carried out by a married couple, aged 42 and 39 and with a police record, who acted as external agents of a recognized real estate company, requesting money as signs or reserves seizing the money of their victims.
This month the agents of the National Police began to receive similar complaints from people who claimed to have signed penitential deposit contracts for the purchase of homes, delivering large sums to a real estate agency that were resolved with the loss of money and without options to acquire the home. .
This real estate agency, located in La Laguna, was run by a married couple who acted as external agents for a prestigious real estate company. In this way, they accessed their client portfolio and obtained the necessary information for their fraudulent action.
The modus operandi consisted of capturing data from the clients of the renowned real estate company and, through its own agency, carrying out fictitious sales of them. In this way, it is verified that buyers in good faith disbursed sums of up to 85,000 euros, in some cases, to reserve a home that they never managed to acquire, keeping said couple with the amount of the down payment.
All this happened without the owner of the house having any knowledge that the fraudulent sale of his property was being carried out. When the scammed clients demanded responsibility from the couple, they stated that they were going to return the money, issuing them checks and promissory notes, knowing that they could not collect them due to lack of funds, generating, in addition, an increase in the patrimonial damage to those affected.
Arrested and brought to justice
The investigation triggered a police device that, after judicial authorization, culminated in the entry and search of a luxurious home valued at one and a half million euros located in the area of Puerto de la Cruz, where the arrest of the couple took place. available to the competent judicial authority.
In addition, in the home, where they lived without paying rent, which is why they had an eviction order, contracts and abundant documentation were seized, as well as computer equipment, and material that is being analyzed by Police experts. National.
