6 Feb, 2018 @ 12:14
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Expat couple in Spain arrested for €700,000 ‘fake sportswear website’ on Costa del Sol

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AN expat couple have been arrested over a €700,000 internet scam on the Costa del Sol.

The French duo are suspecting of selling sportswear online that didn’t exist.

Spanish cops raided their Marbella home, taking €207,000 cash, two sports cars, laptops, mobile phones, tablets and more.

Their accounts have also been frozen while the investigation continues.

Detectives were led to the alleged rip-off merchants by bank manager after he noticed several virtual payments processed through a French client were being flagged up as fraudulent.

There were at least 12,000 suspicious transactions linked to the accounts of the couple.

 

Police arrived just in time as one of the pair was intending to flee to Morocco with the €207,000 cash.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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