The Civil Guard has arrested an employee of the concessionaire of the AP-7 between Cartagena and Vera as a suspected author of a continued fraud. The worker would have manipulated the record of tolls collected in cash to appropriate more than 1,200 euros.
The Civil Guard of the Region of Murcia has arrested a worker of the concessionaire company of the AP-7 between Cartagena and Vera, in Almería, for his alleged involvement in a scheme of manipulation of toll collections.
The arrested person is being investigated as a suspected author of a continued crime of fraud. According to the information provided by the armed institute and collected by Europa Press, the amount obtained through these fraudulent operations would exceed 1,200 euros.
The investigation began after a complaint from the concessionaire
The operation, called ‘Linked’, started in June after the legal services of the concessionaire company detected possible irregularities in the management of payments.
The company reported the facts to the Civil Guard, which opened an investigation to determine how the records were being altered and who could be behind the detected economic discrepancies.
This is how he allegedly manipulated cash collections
The investigations indicate that the suspect took advantage of the payments made in cash. When a driver paid the toll, the employee entered a shorter route than the one actually taken into the system.
To justify that operation, he allegedly used the ticket of another vehicle corresponding to a lower-cost route. In this way, the system recorded an amount lower than that delivered by the user and the worker could keep the difference.
The mechanism would have been repeated on different occasions. The Civil Guard attributes to the investigated a prolonged trajectory within the company, which would have allowed him to know the functioning of the collection system.
The agents caught him with several hidden tickets
After gathering evidence about the procedure used, the investigators went to the suspect's workplace.
There they verified that he was about to assist a driver while keeping several tickets corresponding to lower amount tolls hidden. According to the investigation, those receipts would be used to register cheaper routes and appropriate part of the money paid.
The operation concluded with the arrest of the employee as the alleged perpetrator of a continued crime of fraud. The investigation focuses on facts that would have caused an economic damage exceeding 1,200 euros for the concessionaire.