According to the Police, they had already invested $ 350,000. Both had red diffusion of Interpol, indicated head of the institution.
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They created a real estate investment company in Manta and had already invested about $ 350,000 for that purpose. That unusual economic movement carried out by two Russian citizens in that Manabi city for fifteen months raised the suspicions of the Police, Prosecutor’s Office and the Internal Revenue Service (SRI).
After six months of investigations, on the afternoon of Wednesday 27, the National Police carried out an operation to capture these people, who through an investment company carried out activities related to the purchase, sale, rental or exploitation of real estate own or rented, and that had been established on Avenida Flavio Reyes de Manta, according to information from this company on digital portals.
Pablo Ramírez, commander of Zone 4 of the National Police, said that through the Impact 800 operation, this organization could be dismantled, which would have entered the country for its real estate activities around $ 1.2 million and that they had already acquired real estate for approximately $ 350,000, according to the inquiries.
The detainees have been identified as Grekov Dmitry A. and Kruglov O., both of Russian nationality. Against them A red spread for misappropriation by fraud was already in effect in several countries, according to what was explained by Ramírez.
Four arrested in Manabí for alleged crime of money laundering
After the operation, which was carried out in Quito and Manta, three electronic storage devices, two mobile phones, a laptop, a CPU, a safe and documentary evidence related to the investigation were retained as evidence, as well as money in cash.
“They form a company, a company, then they incorporate and enter the country certain amounts of money, and with those amounts of money they see goods and in this way money is conspired through money launderingRamírez declared.
For this investigation, they also had the support of the Financial and Economic Analysis Unit (UAFE), as well as the SRI, organizations that detected anomalies in the financial movements of the company allegedly managed by Russian citizens.
According to the Police, this is the first case with this type of crime this year in Manabí, and it is not ruled out that other elements of conviction are linked, as well as other people who were linked to front men, added Ramírez.
Both citizens are kept in preventive detention. They must face a legal process against them for alleged money laundering for around $ 1.2 million.
Tax inquiry
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, those apprehended in complicity with other Russian citizens would be part of a criminal organization that from 2010 to 2017 would have received money from illegal activities through their bank accounts, remittances and parcel service.
They would also have received money through a legal person, which would have been “used to erase the money’s trail.”(I)
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