The Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands (TSJC) has reported this Tuesday, in reference to the alleged false kidnapping of Tenerife, that after filing the complaint (August 24) and taking statements from those arrested and investigated (two men and one woman, all of the same family), they were provisionally released on August 27 as alleged perpetrators of crime simulation and extortion. Two of them also currently have a restraining order against the person who reported the case.
The Civil Guard, within the framework of the Santero operation, arrested several people from the same family in Tenerife for allegedly extorting money from a woman by simulating the kidnapping of her daughter, counting on the latter’s participation. After receiving a video in which the young woman appeared gagged and with a knife around her neck, the victim withdrew from a bank the amount of 50,000 euros to pay for the release of her daughter, explained the Benemérita.
In the video, the daughter and alleged perpetrator of the extortion appears with fake blood stains on her face, and demands payment in cash, which had to be delivered to a specific place determined by the alleged kidnappers.
Background
At the same time, the investigators discovered that the victim had already been deceived on at least three previous occasions, in which she had delivered the total amount of 45,000 euros, after receiving three letters with threats against her daughter’s life.
For various reasons, the investigators focused their investigations on the environment closest to the young woman allegedly kidnapped, and determined the involvement of the family of her sentimental partner in the events.
The TSJC also indicates that after the arrest, an entry and search was carried out at a home in Arona.
