A citizen of El Salvador was arrested by officials of the Criminal Investigation Division (DIP) of the Bolivarian National Police this week for try to commit a multimillionaire fraud at the headquarters of the Central bank of Venezuela (BCV), located in the city of Caracas.
In a press release, the Dip detailed that The woman intended to collect a false financial title for the sum of 25 million dollars at the BCV headquarters.
Communications extracted from the telephone number of the arrested during the technical expertise authorized by the Public Ministry verified that Citizens of Ecuador, Honduras and Colombia contacted and hired the detainee to execute the fraud.
Criminals try to commit the crime through the supplication or fraudulent creation of financial documents (such as titles, bonds or false certificates) that simulate being legitimate instruments of high value supported by official institutions, explained the DIP.
How do counterfeit networks operate?
The authorities explained that those involved usually act in organized transnational networks that begin with the falsification of the title, that is, They prepare a false document that mimics a valid financial instrumentlike a bonus or debt title, assigning a high amount.
Then, They contact a person to act as the holder of the false document And present it before the target financial institution, seeking to take advantage of its profile to avoid initial suspicions. In this case, the Salvadoran citizen was in charge of trying to commit fraud to the BCV.
Then, the recruited individual tries to redeem the counterfeit title in the bank using false arguments or stolen identities to support their legitimacy.
Behind the operation there is an organized structure with members in several countries, who finance, provide false documents and coordinate actions to try to mock the security controls of the financial institution.
The Dip detailed that the network is based on encrypted communications, digital documents manipulation and transfer of instructions through mobile devices, as evidenced in the analysis of the detainee phone.
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