Police in Salamanca have detained a man after concluding that the four bank card withdrawals he reported as fraudulent were made by him, not by a third party. The total was 1,300 euros, and the complaint he later filed set off the investigation that ended with his arrest.
The case centers on a sequence from 23 July, when the account holder made three consecutive cash withdrawals at the same gaming hall: one for 100 euros and two for 500 euros each. He returned the next day to make a fourth withdrawal of 200 euros, bringing the total to 1,300 euros. Days later, he went to police to report those four movements as unauthorized and said he did not recognize them. He also claimed the card had never left his possession.
That is the detail that made the complaint possible and, in the end, unsustainable. The man’s own withdrawals were being described as if they belonged to a stranger. Investigators checked the transactions and established that the person who had used the card in the betting hall was the same person who had filed the complaint. On that basis, agents located him, detained him on suspicion of scam, and opened the case as an alleged attempt to obtain reimbursement for money he had already taken out himself.
The apparent contradiction is what gives the case its weight. The complaint was not based on a stolen card, a lost wallet, or an unknown charge. It rested on a claim that the card had remained under the holder’s control while the account was being drained. Police say the sequence of withdrawals and the later report do not fit that account. In other words, the story was not about discovering a theft. It was about whether the man was trying to turn his own cash withdrawals into a banking fraud case.
The timeline now closes with the judicial step. After the relevant police procedures were completed, the detainee was handed over to the judicial authority. The case, which began with a complaint in Salamanca days after the transactions in July, ends for now with a fraud allegation built around four movements, 1,300 euros and a report that police say was false.
