The Guardia Civil is investigating 91 motorists for evading money and fines for serious traffic offenses they committed. They did this by hiring the illegal services of a resident of Valencia who declared himself the author of the crime, took the sanction, freed the real perpetrators and took on the loss of points on his own driver’s license. The offender, AH, 28 years old and of Armenian nationality, had his driver’s license revoked, lacked a motorcycle license and had accumulated an endless list of offenses in the files of the General Directorate of Transport (DGT), resulting in a loss of 321 points (from 12 positives), without the alarms being triggered until now. The suspect, who received between 75 and 200 euros per point awarded (and the amount of the fine), turned out to be the perpetrator of the recklessness, which was clearly evident from the radar photo that a woman had committed it, according to armed sources Institute in Mallorca, where the investigation began.
It all started on the Balearic island last year, at kilometer 4.5 of the Ma-1 highway between Palma and Andratx, when a motorcyclist almost ran over a civil police station by skipping a breathalyzer check at full speed where he had been told to stop. The agents wrote down the license plate and sent several complaints to the state traffic control center for serious violations. In a few days, the alleged driver of the motorcycle had already made allegations. An Armenian citizen had taken responsibility for everything.
The Traffic Investigation and Analysis Group (GIAT) of the Armed Institute in the Balearic Islands found in the first instance that the declared perpetrator did not have a motorcycle license and “he had a loss of validity of his license resulting from the traffic at Valencia Headquarters “, reads a joint statement by the DGT and the Guardia Civil released this morning. The first episode: He was accused of false documentation, while the owner of the bike and a friend of his were located and investigated, allegedly for helping him fill out the resource with the wrong biker’s details.
What came later “got a lot of attention” from the agents, they admit. You received the history of crimes from AH. He had endless serious crimes, all with the same characteristics: they included the loss of points on the permit, the owners of the motorcycles were another person who, when notified of the sanction by the DGT, was identified as the Armenian citizen driver at the time of the crime. And the big surprise: “In the DGT files, this person had a minus balance of -321 points on his driver’s license.” The question is: how could he amass a drop in points on par with what 20-30 drivers have in a lifetime? “We all wonder that,” replied a source familiar with the case from the armed institute.
The wrongdoer acted impudently. On online advertising sites, she offered to sell driver’s license points between 75 and 200 euros each, in addition to the amount of the penalty for the violation. He didn’t mind saying he was the driver of a motorcycle that was actually driven by a woman, nor did he mind presenting himself as driving vehicles for companies he had never worked for or who were far from his home. On the day of the offense that served to locate him, he was not even in Mallorca but in Valencia, where he lives. Social networks were their system of communication, according to the armed institute.
91 defendants are now being investigated for alleged involvement in a crime with forged documents. The investigations cover Madrid, the Valencian Community, Aragon, the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, Castile and León, Murcia, Galicia, Cantabria, Navarra, the Basque Country, Extremadura, Catalonia, La Rioja and Andalusia. Some have already received a visit or a message from the Guardia Civil. “New investigations are not excluded as the operation is in the exploitation phase as new fraudulent files could be discovered,” he adds.
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