Servers of the Technical Investigation Corps of the Tolima Prosecutor’s Office captured in Madrid (Cundinamarca), a criminal lawyer, appointed for the crime of aggravated fraud in a homogeneous contest with 21 criminal acts.
The investigation against Diego Felipe Cubillos Arango, 39 years oldwhich advances a dispatch from the Fraud Unit, is for allegedly being involved in a scam that exceeds one thousand 300 million pesos of which a total of 72 people were victims64 from Tolima and the rest from Meta.
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It is documented that the events occurred between the years 2018 to 2021 when the defendant illegally obtained money owned by several citizens, whom he kept in deception, supposedly making them invest in the purchase of judicial titles to which he insured, he agreed for a low cost.
the processed, Apparently, he indicated that he had friends such as secretaries and judges who would have to be given a percentage of the value of the title so that these procedures would go quickly and thus obtain profits that ranged between 30% and 40% of the money invested.
Nevertheless, these judicial titles never existedY on October 28, 2021, the victims lost contact with himas reported.
The cases
Among the investigations carried out by the CTI servers attached to the Fraud Group of the Prosecutor’s Office in Tolimait was established that, within the 21 events of aggravated fraud, there are 41 mass scam victims.
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These are people who they would have placed their trust in the lawyer, making them believe that he had friends in banks and influences in courts to easily access the mentioned titles, and thus get good profits.
One of the cases originated on September 8, 2020 in Ibagué, where Cubillos Arango allegedly obtained the sum of $257,150,000 illegally, deceiving a person with the purchase of judicial titles that a friendly judge would supposedly sell him.
To raise the money, the initial victim invited friends, acquaintances and relatives to make the investment, adding a total of 20 people for this purpose.
As indicated by the alleged scammer to the unsuspecting citizen, the profits for the purchase of these ranged between 30% and 40% of the invested. For a year he gave her small sums of money from the supposed earnings, but he warned that with that money he had to buy more. That is, he did not return the profits because they were supposedly reinvested.
Before losing contact with him, told him that there was a title for $800,000,000, telling him that it was “Christmas early”and then they accumulated all the supposed profits to buy it. This is how on October 28, 2021, he agreed to pay $855,000,000 in profits plus the capitalbut disappeared.
In the other case, 21 people were affected. The event occurred in July 2020, also in the capital of Tolima, where the accused today kept the sum of $ 432,000,000 acquired through trickery.
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Like the previous fact, a citizen was instrumentalized to mislead 20 other people and thus become part of the business that seemed profitable and safe.
To build trust in the victim he had him initially sign four bills of exchange for a total value of $399,210,000. On October 29 of last year he lost contact with him, the date on which he had supposedly promised to give him all the money he earned plus what he invested.
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At the end of the rigorous hearings carried out before a court with functions of control of guarantees of Ibagué, a prison insurance measure was decreed due to the seriousness and modality of the conduct committed, because he pretended to have influence with public servants to affect the assets of 72 people.
The accused did not accept the charge imputed by the fiscal delegate.