Newsroom/Telecinco Newsroom 03/27/2023 12:01 am
Eight members of a criminal organization that appropriated the inheritances of deceased elders were arrested in the Community of Valencia and in the Basque Country.
A civil gang busted a criminal order dedicated to illegally appropriating the inheritances of deceased elderly people
They have benefited from the deaths from the pandemic and the fact that many of the inmates work at the funeral home
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The Civil Guard destroyed the established network, which was dedicated to appropriating the inheritances of deceased elderly people, to the point that they set up parallel societies and societies, namely to launder money. In total, eight people who worked between the Valencian Community and Dutch Land were arrested.
As reported by Benemérita in the press, those arrested, who have 20 properties and up to 71 bank accounts, are being investigated for criminal charges, robbery, fraud, document forgery, usurpation, money laundering, usurpation of civil and illegal status. possession of weapons in Alicante, Valencia and Vizcaya.
Those who were involved in a criminal gang had a defined course of action. In order to obtain inheritances, he first appointed the deceased, who knew no heirs. They did so through those who operated funeral homes and, after death, stole things from the residences where the deceased lived.
Several people were detained working in the funeral home and did so in order to rob the dead
The investigation of the armed institution began in May 2021, when civil prosecutors verified that some judicial seals from a house located in Benissa, Alicante, where renovations were made and various items were removed, including a motorcycle.
In the first phase of research, members of Benemérita managed to identify two members of the group. They worked in a funeral home in the Marina Alta region of Alicante and, in addition to stealing jewelry, they gave messages to rob the same homes and get the keys to the bank.
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In addition, after the family of the deceased did not claim any body, they raised their criminal activities by surrendering to the leaders of the government: two brothers living in Bilbao, a 63-year-old woman with legal studies and a. 54 year-old man. years of insurance broker.
Eight were arrested in the Community of Valencia and the Basque Country for appropriating the inheritance of 22 deceased elders
The gang used his real estate to dismantle and sell the deceased’s properties
He was in charge of no more than 12 companies sixty years ago; including two real estate agencies and four agencies, while he was 54 years old he owned an insurance broker.
Real estate institutions are located in Dénia, Alicante and Basque Country, and both used to lease and sell the properties of the deceased.
Through institutions that were in Bilbao and Cantabria, they turned the dead into guarantors of their companies through false commercial contracts, so that the deceased would have patrimonial care and keep their assets very cheaply.
On the other hand, for tax evasion the two brothers went into action, using a construction and renovation company, an insurance office, a mechanical factory in Bilbao, two hotels in the provinces of Murcia and Valencia, a restaurant in Denia and two offshore companies in Ireland and Malta, also in Bilbao controlled cultural society, to pretend donations and not payments while the living are dead.
The pandemic fueled the gang’s criminal activities
The pandemic has created an attack for the criminal activities of the gang. The criminal group has increased its activity because of this because of the increased number of elderly deceased and the difficulties of families to take care of the bodies in this place, as well as the lack of known heirs in other cases.
By means of this scheme those who have fallen will receive a large sum of money. Investigators have confirmed their participation in the illegal appropriation of 20 properties with a value of more than three million euros and, at the risk of the flight of one of the leaders, it happened last October when the agents carried out seven investigations in different areas. Alicante, Valencia and Vizcaya, where seven men and one woman were arrested.
In the same way, five guns, almost 100 pieces of gold and silver, 11,000 in cash, various computers and mobile phones, eight motor vehicles, cryptocurrency wallets, 20 properties and 71 bank accounts were seized.
In total, a total of 22 deceased are known to have been victims of a criminal group, two of Spanish nationality, five French, one Belgian, four Swiss, one British, eight German, one Finnish, most of whom are missing information. heirs But the operation of the civil guardianship does not terminate or exclude those who have unlawfully registered the inheritance of the deceased.
After this, Denia number 2 of the Court of Inquiry ordered the entry into prison without bail to the leader of the female band and ordered to measure the other guarantees.
