Police arrest bitcoin scammers in Venezuela

The Scientific, Penal and Criminal Investigation Body (Cicpc) arrested three men who carried out a scam valued at 2 million 800 thousand dollars in bitcoins.

This was reported by the director of Cicpc of Venezuela, Douglas Rico, who said at a press conference that “Jhoan Antonio Infante García, 30, was the one who asked the victims for different sums of money to invest in the cryptocurrency trading market, under the promise to cancel the monthly interest of 8% and made those payments only for two months and cut off communication with the victims, who turn to the Division Against Organized Crime, and after a meticulous work they managed to arrest Jhoan and also Francisco Antonio Herrera Simanca (46) and Sergio Alejandro Better Zambrano (35)“.

On the other hand, he added that the detainees “acted as the headlines of the accounts that received the money, affecting the economic assets of the unwary”.

Rico recommended to the population to be careful about the “management of trading” because, although there are companies that are reliable, there are others that “are used to cheat and deceive people.”

During the arrest of the suspects, four computers of different makes and models were seized, three “mining” machines, cash in foreign currency (dollars and Colombian pesos), a Glock firearm, model 25, caliber .380, a charger of said weapon, a dvd and three vehicles were recovered, two without plates and one of plate AD483OM.

K. Tovar

Source: Panorama