The victim didn’t know it, but he slept next to her every night. During the day, they used their data to open accounts, take out loans, and obtain credit cards. According to research, A woman and her brother used false identities to defraud four banks and embezzle nearly $70 million.. The operation, which took place between February and March of this year, appears to have affected both her male partner and her father, who lives in San Justo, Santa Fe.
In Santa Fe City Court, The 27-year-old woman, whose initials are ASB, on Thursday heard a preventive detention order stemming from a case in which she is being investigated for allegedly cheating on her partner.. This precautionary measure was ordered by Judge Sergio Carraro of the Preparatory Criminal Investigation (IPP) at the request of Prosecutor Agustín Nigro of the First District Public Prosecutor’s Office (MPA).
According to the prosecutor’s report, The woman is said to have been with her brother FLB (30). Seize the victim’s biometric data and use it to disguise their identity to financial institutions.
Both men are from San Justo and are accused of being accomplices in the fraud. The man had already been in preventive detention for about two weeks.
According to MPA’s presentation published on its official website, this fraud mechanism is believed to have been introduced between February and March 2025. During this time, the defendants usurped the identities of the defendant’s male partner and his father, and used this method to defraud four banks and open six accounts.. These registrations were used to access financial products such as credit cards and loans, and to dispose of funds without the owner’s knowledge.
The theory presented by prosecutors suggests that these moves were carried out behind the victim’s back. The supposed beneficiaries of these products did not know that accounts, plastics and loans existed in their names. Under this structure, the brothers would have seized a total of $69,756,000.
Within this global amount, the MPA discriminated between two damages awards. The defendant suffered damages of $47,404,000, and the couple owed $22,352,000.
Prosecutor Nigro explained that the scheme was based on the misappropriation of biometric data, which effectively enabled identity theft against banking organizations.
At all times, according to the accusations, this operation was the starting point for the contracting and use of credit instruments that created debts and withdrawals in the name of third parties unrelated to the operation.
At the hearing at which the woman’s preventive detention was ordered, MPA representatives raised the need for preventive measures based on procedural risks and the amount of money defrauded.
Judge Carraro granted the request and ordered preventive detention. The resolution means that ASB, like his brother, will remain in custody while the pre-criminal investigation progresses.
Official reports do not name those affected, only detailing that they are from San Justo. The banking institution and terms of the loan were also not specified. According to the prosecution’s hypothesis, the duration of the operation, the number of accounts opened and the total amount of fraud caused were recorded.
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