The Supreme Court (TS) has determined that an Investigating Court of Madrid investigate an extortion plot that, among other people, has affected a resident in Tenerife and another of Reef of Lanzarotewho were required up to 10,000 euros after visiting pages of sexual content.
The gang is made up of four people and the extortion would have been victims, in addition to the two canaries, five other residents in the rest of the national territory.
The first complaint was filed by a resident of the town of El Ejido, in Almería, who informed the National Police of an extortion attempt after unknown persons demanded money from him in exchange for not revealing that he had been browsing websites Internet of sexual content.
The demand was carried out by means of calls and sending threatening audio and video messages in which payments were demanded. which in the case of this complainant came to a total of 2,800 euros.
Once the investigation begins the existence of a possible criminal group dedicated to committing this type of crime made up of four people residing in Madrid was verifiedwhere the accounts were also open and the money deposited by the injured parties was received.
Given that the first complaint had been filed in El Ejido, a Madrid Court considered that it was in this town where the investigations should be carried out, which the Supreme Court has just ruled out.
Until now, what is known is that those investigated contacted people who had accessed dating announcements or contacts of a sexual nature through telematic means that they finally did not hire.no.
Then, under the pretext of the inconvenience caused and the time lost, those investigated blackmailed and threatened the victims, both with causing harm to them and to their family environment.
For this reason, they demanded the payment of various amounts of money, which in some cases implied the disbursement of up to 10,000 euros through a mobile application.
The investigations have managed to identify a total of seven victims who reside in different parts of the national territory such as Jaén, Valladolid, Marín, Soria, El Ejido, Tenerife and Arrecife.
All of them sent money to the accounts opened in bank branches in Madrid, where the members of the group reside.
For this reason, the Supreme Court believes that the traditional criterion of ubiquity that is applied when the same crime is committed in several different localities at the same time, should give way to that determined by the domicile of the perpetrator, when it coincides with the place where it is being carried out. carrying out the investigation.
This procedure, according to the Supreme Court, may be more operative in cases such as the present in which the facts under investigation in principle present profiles similar to those referred to in other complaints against the same persons and to whom identical conduct and operations are attributed. .
In this regard, it is estimated that the investigation will be more effective if it is carried out by a Court in the enclave where the defendants have their domiciles and the alleged organization and group that sought to obtain the illicit benefits would be constituted. Or what is the same, Madrid in this procedure.
