Two Arrested For Defrauding Bank Customers
The Sección de Fraudes, del Organismo de Investigación Judicial (OIJ) was able to put an end to a fraud at at the Banco Nacional, when an employee was able to divert up to ¢1.600.000 colones (us$3.200) from client accounts.

Authorities were able to close in on a woman identified only by her last name, Delgado, when they saw that all the complaints by customers pointed to her, where she worked in customer service.

Investigators say that the woman would earn the trust of the bank's customers and obtain their PIN - security code - which she would then, by accessing the account over the internet, divert funds to an account owned by an accomplice. She would dupe her co-workers who had access to the database of the bank to obtian information for the fraud.

Investigators, once they figured out what was happening, decided to keep the woman under surveillance, following her every move. The saw that after work, the woman would to a downtown store to meet with a Nicaraguan man identified by his last name Udiarte, the owner of the account where the funds were being diverted.

Once they had all the information they needed, agents of the Fraudes along with a Fiscal, they raided the house of the suspect, as well as the office in the bank where she worked.

Authorities arrested the two, who were at the time carrying documents that tied them to the fraud. Authorities also learned that the woman was employed by the bank, but rather by a private company which provided the bank with temporary manpower services.