The scam for $ 1.5 billion against the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) He had a new chapter this Sunday when the Federal Police arrested to a woman known as “La China”, accused of being the possible leader of the band of criminals involved in the case.
“With their interventions, he assured the success of the fraudulent maneuvers investigated, by distributing the money in third -party accounts in order to divert the funds, and then reinsert those sums in the financial market again.”police sources detailed.
The band would be responsible for unauthorized extractions to Banco Nación for more than 1,500,000,000 pesos, after authorities of the Law and Dentistry faculties made a complaint in October last year.
Six arrested by the millionaire fraud to the UBA
This arrest is the sixth, since past days the Federal Police arrested five members who made up this illegal association created by ghost companies, in addition to fake mail accounts that were used to send transfers orders. They are charged with the crimes of “illicit association and scams.”
Money movements were completed in September last year, When the authors of the maneuver would have simulated being the Treasury Personal of the UBA and taught various orders of MEP bank transfers (electronic means of payment).
According to the judicial report “thirteen transfers were managed to individualize by a total of 1,591 million pesos. Not satisfied with that, the scammers” had tried to authorize three other transfers “, in this case for 341 million pesos.
The orders “materialized through notes stated at first by email, and then in paper format through a cadet with false signatures of the authorized people to operate the accounts of the cited universities.” Those notes carried an apocryphal email address: [email protected]used to send transfer forms.
