The National Police has arrested a 64-year-old man in Tenerife as alleged perpetrator of a crime of fraud continued to customers of the travel agency of which he was the sole administrator, adding a total of 45 people affected and close to €40,000 ripped off
In recent weeks, complaints have begun to accumulate from people affected by similar events related to the same travel agency, located in the town of San Cristobal de La Laguna. The complainants claimed to have made the payment of a reservation to travel, both to the Peninsula and to international destinations, without receiving the tickets for them. Those affected never received the reservation they had supposedly made, while the agency claimed that the minimum number of travelers to make the trip had not been reached.
useless claims
Those affected contacted the agency to claim the money back and never occurred. Thus, until an employee of the agency, who also had not been paid for two months, encouraged clients to file the corresponding complaint because the person in charge of the company had disappeared since the beginning of October.
In total, thanks to the collaboration of this worker, it became known that there were 45 people affected by unreturned reservations, reaching a sum of €39,397 ripped off
located and arrested
With all this data, the National Police interviewed several of those affected and carried out investigations until they were able to identify and locate the culprit, linking him to the travel agency and the bank account in which some of the Bookings. For this reason, he was arrested for a crime of continued fraud, being placed at the disposal of the competent judicial authority.
