Seven people were in preventive detention after being detained by the judicial police in a joint operation with the PSP, suspected of “dozens of crimes” using bank cards and means of payment in excess of 250,000 euros.
In a statement regarding Operation FinalPay, the Judicial Police (PJ) said that through the National Unit for Combating Cybercrime and Technological Crimes, together with the PSP, the Sintra Criminal Investigation Squad, and together with the Lisbon and Sintra Investigation and Criminal Investigation Departments, provoked the police operation on Friday culminating in the arrest of seven people.
The detainees, who meanwhile were held in preventive detention after the first judicial interrogation, are “alleged perpetrators of dozens of crimes related to the misuse of a guarantee card or card, device or payment data, computer fraud and money laundering, three of them are also suspected of committing various robberies with the use of violence,” she said.
“The cost of damage calculated so far already exceeds 250,000 euros and is expected to increase as the investigation continues,” the joint venture said in a statement, specifying that the operation included “several house searches.” “and resulting in the seizure of “various items associated with criminal activity and / or acquired illegally.”
According to the JV, the investigation included “the identification and centralization of several criminal cases scattered throughout the country.”
The statement added that the investigation “has revealed all the elements and all activities of the criminal group, whether in terms of the misuse of electronic means of payment or in terms of committing various crimes of embezzlement.”