Madrid, June 3 (EFE) .- The Spanish Civil Guard arrested in Madrid two restorers of antique pieces -some of the XV century to retain these valuable objects until their owners pay the “ransom”.
to convince their owners to pay if they wanted to recover them, they sent them photographs of the pieces on the cover of the copy of the ABC daily newspaper, bringing the “hijackers” testified that the jewels were in his possession, He said today in a statement the Civil Guard.
the detainees are a restorer of old jewels of Spanish nationality and an Indian, who is being investigated on charges of belonging to a criminal group, abuse, fraud appropriation and extortion.
the investigation began in January, when a Spanish collector and antiquarian gave a man of Madrid various jewels of centuries XV and XVII to restore, valued at more than 150,000 euros ($ 167,000).
the restorer, after asking more money to restore the pieces, when he reached the agreed date for return, gave no sign of life.
But the antiquarian began receiving phone calls a person claiming to be in possession of those jewels and demanded the payment of a ransom to retrieve them.
According to the agents, who was making those calls was an Indian citizen residing in Madrid, buddy Spanish restaurateur and with whom the ransom money was distributed.
a few days later, and contacts antiquarian had with other colleagues, he knew from an Argentine merchant that he had been blackmailed by restorers assumptions, whom he had paid a significant amount of money to get two small boats silver seventeenth century valued at 240,000 euros ($ 267,000).
Another antiquarian Barcelona was the target also the two detainees, according underscores the Civil Guard.
When the suspects were arrested at their homes were found, among other items, a gold pendant, enamel, rock crystal and emeralds seventeenth century, a cross of gold, enamel and garnets of the century and a gold brooch and emeralds that period. EFE
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