Woman posed as a tax agent and asked for up to $50,000 to “manage benefits” with judges and prosecutors

A woman would have impersonated the identity of a fiscal agent from the Esmeraldas canton to request money from people who had legal proceedings.

The Prosecutor’s Office indicated this Saturday the 7th that the citizen Wendy C. would have contacted the cohabitant of a defendant to request money in exchange for, supposedly, obtaining his acquittal in a process.

The communication would have occurred through instant messaging applications and by telephone. In these dialogues, the person involved impersonated the identity of a fiscal agent from the Esmeraldas canton and indicated that she had an alleged relationship with judges and other prosecutors. She requested large sums of money.

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Wendy C. would have indicated that with her ties to judges and prosecutors “she could manage benefits” within the processes.

The woman would have requested $3,000 to start the alleged negotiations with judicial officials. Then, the interested party had to deliver another $50,000.

Based on the elements presented by the Prosecutor’s Office, a Criminal Guarantees judge ordered preventive detention for alleged fraud and the beginning of the thirty-day fiscal investigation. The woman was arrested on Thursday the 5th in Esmeraldas.

Wendy C. has been immersed in other criminal proceedings for the crimes of fraud and identity theft.

The Prosecutor’s Office explained that the arrest of the alleged person involved was achieved with the support of the National Anti-Crime Investigation Unit (UIAD). Among the evidence collected was cash and the cell phone from which the accused was contacted, among other elements.

The woman could face a custodial sentence of five to seven years for the crime of fraud, which is typified and sanctioned in article 186 of the Comprehensive Organic Criminal Code (COIP). (YO)