The National Police said that two men, one 52 years old and his 80-year-old father, were arrested in Alicante for stealing 140,000 euros by using bogus invoices for remodelling contracts in the name of a company owned by a former partner of one of them.
A businessman filed a complaint that someone had asked him to change some things on bills that he never sent out. This led him to discover that someone had used the names of two of his firms to do construction and remodelling work that never happened.
The agents were able to confirm that one of the detainees had planned work and improvements for three additional people who had paid him thirty percent up front, but the projects were never finished after they started.
The 52-year-old man, who is the main suspect in the alleged crimes of fraud, document forgery, and identity theft, used his father’s account number, who is being looked into for fraud, to make the payments instead of his own. He did this to try to stop the investigation.
One of the labourers engaged to do the work is also affected; they are owed 4,000 euros.
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