Authorities Arrest Five Suspected Members of Fraud Network Operating in CDMX and Edomex
Elements of the Mexico City Citizen Security Secretariat, the capital’s Attorney General’s Office, and the State of Mexico Security Secretariat managed to arrest five alleged members of a group dedicated to fraud. The operations to capture them were carried out in Mexico City and the State of Mexico.
The arrests took place in the Álvaro Obregón, Cuauhtémoc, Iztacalco, and Iztapalapa boroughs, as well as at a residence in Tlalnepantla, following a complaint filed by a banking institution.
The detainees were identified as Anabel Sugey Ávila Flores, 50 years old; Amairani Alejandra Solorio Benítez, 36; Fernando Gutiérrez Viloria, 45; Michael Donovan Zúñiga Delgadillo and Alberto Javier Medina Albarrán, both 31 years old.
According to the investigations, the men and women are part of a criminal group that operated in Mexico City, the State of Mexico, Puebla, and San Luis Potosí.
Modus Operandi
Their method consisted of pretending to be employees of a financial institution in order to offer supposed prizes or gifts. Under this pretext, they convinced victims to provide personal and banking information, which was later used to carry out unauthorized withdrawals and transfers.
Authorities estimate that this group obtained illegal profits of nearly 40 million pesos through this fraud scheme.
With these five arrests, a total of 15 people have now been detained for their alleged connection to the same criminal network, whose operations had been monitored by authorities for several months.
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The detainees were placed at the disposal of the judicial authority that requested them, which will determine their legal status in the coming days.
Source: excelsior
