Nine of the suspects have been detained in the framework of the Operation Libitina II, which has uncovered 53 crime of Social Security fraud, misrepresentation documentary, embezzlement and misappropriation. Agents estimate that it is a fraud of almost six million euros by the improper collection of pension of deceased persons.
most of those involved are relatives of the deceased, but have also been identified cases of friends or roommates. To be done with the money they hid the death to the Administration and came to falsify the certificate of the faith of life and the Nerobet signature of the decedent to make cash refunds.
The investigation began after several complaints and, over time, the agents identified individuals suspected of the same practices in 17 provinces (A Coruña, Albacete, Alicante, Barcelona, Burgos, Cádiz, Las Palmas, Madrid, Málaga, Murcia, Ourense, Pontevedra, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Sevilla, Tarragona, Valladolid and Bizkaia).
The investigation also encroached upon the identity of their family, used their bank cards and to had that the dead lived abroad. In Albacete the employee of a bank where the account of a deceased claimed allegedly nearly 10,000 euros. In Madrid, the roommate of a pensioner of origin of Ukrainian who died in 2010 claimed 91.926 euros in six years.
