Ten men and eight women were part of the gang that with floating IPs transferred the money from the accounts.
At dawn this Wednesday, 18 people were arrested in Guayas for fraudulent appropriation by electronic means.
The Police Anti-kidnapping and Extortion Unit carried out the operation, as several complaints were reported in the Pichincha, Azuay and Guayas prosecutor’s offices.
General Fausto Buenaño, Police Commander of Zone 8 (Guayaquil, Durán and Samborondón), commented that alias Ceneca led the band and that the organization was made up of ten men and eight women, all without criminal records.
They were profiting from fraudulent banking transactions, General Buenaño said.
At the hearing for the formulation of charges, precautionary measures were given to all the suspects, they have to appear every 72 hours.
The raids were carried out in La Florida, in Portete, in Daule and in Durán. In the homes, 18 cell phones were found as evidence, 26 documents that correspond to fraudulent transactions.
Major Fabricio Encarnación, head of the Unase, explained how the gang operated. According to the investigations carried out, the suspects violated the computer systems of several banking entities and made transfers through payments to third parties.
The band managed to appropriate $ 85,000.
Encarnación explained that the violated accounts presented inconsistencies and errors that did not allow the true owners to access immediately.
“The transactions were generated in less than two hours using floating IPs, which are in charge of linking the accounts of those who are going to receive the money. The suspects transferred less than $ 5,000 to the accounts to avoid having problems when withdrawing the money. (I)
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