18 Feb, 2020 @ 12:17
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Young expat robs Alzheimer’s sufferer out of €15,000 by making 780 charges on his credit card after faking being his friend on Spain’s Costa del Sol

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A YOUNG expat has been arrested for allegedly stealing more than €15,000 from an Alzheimer’s sufferer.

The 20-year-old is accused of making more than 700 charges to the 86-year-old’s man credit card after befriending him in the bar where she worked in Malaga.

The alleged thief, from Paraguay, obtained his account number and details and made some 780 purchases online between September and November.

The fraud was only realised by the victim’s son who noticed a string of purchases on his father’s account.

The woman had allegedly splashed the pensioner’s cash on clothes, transport, restaurants, hotels, kitchen appliances and plane tickets.

The son filed a denuncia with Policia Nacional who soon honed in on the female suspect at the bar.

Officers managed to arrest her on the same day she was scheduled to fly to Paraguay after having bought the tickets on the victim’s card.

She is now facing trial in Malaga.

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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