Authorities in Havana arrested a woman who posed as a provincial inspector to defraud vendors at a trade fair.
Yanet Lázara Díaz Álvarez, whose identity card was published on Facebook by a spokesperson for the Provincial Inspection Directorate, was arrested in late December in Marianas for defrauding and defrauding fairgoers from whom she demanded money.
According to the information, the Inspection Directorate found Diaz Alvarez at the fair, who, to commit the crime, was wearing a vest originally belonging to transportation inspectors, with the inscription “Inspector DIS Provincial”.
From 2021, DIS (an acronym for the former Comprehensive Supervision Directorate) will cease to exist.
“Through swift joint action with the PNR, the citizen was taken to the sixth police station in Marianao and a complaint No. 99090/23 was filed against her for the crime of usurpation of public works provided for in Article 19 of the Penal Code,” the note details.
Amidst the severe financial crisis the country is going through, cases of scams and fraud have increased.
Authorities made the arrest last July A person using an identity document to impersonate an inspector of the Comprehensive Provincial Directorate Supervision and Control (DISC) in Havana
The Municipal Assembly of Popular Power of Central Havana indicated that he was found “with false identity documents and fraudulent behavior”.
After being traced, he was transferred to Janza Police Station.
Images released by the source show photos from the moment of the arrest as well as the card the man was using.
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