PDI disrupts informal taxi crew dedicated to swindling tourists: fraud is almost $100 million - La Tercera

For nearly eight months, the Eastern Metropolitan Prosecutor's Office and the Las Condes Investigative Police were investigating a gang of informal taxi drivers who were swindling foreign tourists travelling from Santiago Airport to different destinations in the capital, charging them high sums of money.A total of nine people were arrested for the crimes of scams and other frauds, Ilícita association and money laundering.

Nine subjects were arrested this day after the fall of a criminal gang of colluded informal taxi drivers who were dedicated to transferring tourists from Santiago Airport to hotels in the eastern sector. Those involved are accused of the crimes of fraud, illegal association and money laundering. The actions of the organization were closely followed or detectives of MT0 Las Condes de la PDI, developed together with the Attorney General’s Office o…

The PDI arrested nine persons linked to an organization of taxi drivers who charged high sums of money from foreign tourists for transferring them from Santiago airport to hotels in the eastern sector of Santiago. The nine detainees were charged for the crimes of scams and other frauds, illegal association and money laundering. They were at the disposal of the Eastern Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office for their formalization. According to the inv…

The investigation found that the amounts of fraud fluctuated between $600,000 and $9,000,000, harming a total of 17 people, who formalized the complaints.