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Cheeky thief asks Amazon for a job to close security loopholes after swindling €350,000

THREE 22-year-olds from Mallorca have been convicted for what has been described as the biggest fraud against online retailer Amazon ever seen in Europe.

The youngsters were found guilty of swindling as much as €350,000 from the company by taking advantage of its returns policy.

By Simon Hunter

And now one of them has asked Amazon for a job to help it to close the loopholes in its security systems. Instead he has been handed a prison sentence. Palma’s criminal court heard that they would offer products

A GANG in Palma has been sentenced to a combined seven years and 10 months in prison for falsifying vital medical documents used to prescribe anti-anxiety pills.

The four men were accused of obtaining clonazepam, a depressant drug only available on prescription, by creating fraudulent medical prescriptions. They used their own de- for sale on second-hand websites at a low cost.

When someone purchased one, the trio would order it from Amazon and send it directly to the buyer’s address. Then they would request a refund by claiming that the product was defective or damaged, sending back a box along with the barcode supplied by

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tails on private health care prescriptions, which they then signed with a forged doctor’s signature. Two of the defendants are already serving prison sentences and will remain in custody. The defence and the Prosecution’s office reached an agreement on suspending the sentences for the other two defendants for five years.

Amazon in order to manage the return.

The box, however, would contain anything from pens to marbles, or would be completely empty. They repeated the scam hundreds of times between 2017 and 2019, earning themselves hundreds of thousands of euros in the process.

All three pleaded guilty at a Palma court and were sentenced to a year in prison and ordered to pay a fine of €1,080. The court took into account the fact that they returned the full total of the money defrauded.

The three are unlikely to see the inside of a prison cell for their crimes, however, given that sentences of two years and under for a first offence are usually suspended in Spain.

of guns, including two submachine guns, eight handguns, a rifle and a hand grenade.

A later raid of the Broberg’s Wasa Consulting company led to the arrests of six people and the seizure of documents, which police are still investigating. The same Marbella office, in Nueva Andalucia, also held a series of documents for a string of companies - believed to be 17 in totalowned by Joakim.

Lars and Joakim have denied any criminal activity.