A man is on trial today for allegedly stealing multiple people’s identity documents and using them to open bank accounts and seek loans. The incidents occurred between April and September 2018, when the defendant took six men’s identity documents from vehicles in Elda, Petrer, and Monóvar and used them to open bank accounts.
With the accounts open, he either used the cards associated with them to withdraw the maximum amount of credit from ATMs or applied for loans from banks or other quick-paying credit institutions. He also used the identities to buy and register cellphones. The defendant moved credit received from one of the victims’ cards to a bank account owned by his partner’s parents, both of whom are indicted in this case.
The main defendant also gave one victim’s identity to another person, who is also charged, and used it to buy 2,000 euros’ worth of appliances in Novelda.
The Prosecutor’s Office is proposing a ten and a half-year jail term for three charges of burglary, three instances of small theft, and one case of ongoing falsification of a commercial document. Another defendant is facing two years in jail for one crime of fraud, while the two defendants accused of receiving the money into their bank accounts face one year in prison for one offence of receiving stolen goods.
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