

The group was made up of approximately ten people from the western area and carried out several scams that reached 200 million pesos.
Tomás Modini
@ModiniTomas
A criminal network made up of ten people, and based in Morón and La Matanza, was dismantled after multiple police operations. This organization managed to defraud seven companies, obtaining illicit profits that exceeded 200 million pesos.
The case began to be investigated in November 2023, when a well-known textile company detected irregular movements in its name. According to the complaint, people outside the company requested banking products in its name at different financial entities, thus accumulating an initial balance of $30 million.
The seriousness of the situation led the National Criminal and Correctional Judge No. 4, Martín Yadarola, and the secretary Verónica Bresciani to involve the Bank Fraud Division of the City Police in the investigations.
The mode of operation of the gang
The first investigations revealed that the gang had a well-established modus operandi: they used company data to open bank accounts, request credits and make purchases with cards obtained through fraud. Through this scheme, the criminals not only affected the textile company that reported the crime, but also six other companies linked to different sectors.
The tracking of the operations led the investigators to request information from various financial entities and the Mercado Pago platform, where key movements were detected that pointed to the leaders of the group. After identifying the ringleaders, conclusive evidence was obtained that allowed the organization to be connected to each of the million-dollar scams.
With months of field work and surveillance, the police managed to confirm the identities of the ten members of the gang. Thus, 16 search warrants were issued in different locations in Morón, La Matanza, the City of Buenos Aires and other municipalities in the region. During the operations, nine men and one woman were arrested.
In addition, a significant amount of property and money was seized that reflected the magnitude of the scams, such as high-end vehicles, expensive appliances and furniture, cell phones, computers and memory cards; credit cards from different banks, more than $1,104,750 in cash and 235 grams of marijuana.
A million-dollar scam dismantled
The criminal network operated mainly from homes located in the west of the Buenos Aires suburbs and used advanced social engineering and document fraud strategies to carry out the scams. Estimates showed that the total economic damage to the affected companies exceeded 200 million pesos, which shows the magnitude of this network.
The evidence collected during the raids was sufficient for the ten suspects to be placed in preventive detention. Among them, the leaders of the organization, whose illegal activity extended over several months before being detected and dismantled.
The joint work between the justice system and the security forces was decisive in putting an end to this criminal network. The City Police highlighted the importance of collaboration with financial institutions and technological platforms that provided essential information to identify those responsible.
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