Alleged murder plot to sell organs
Mother, daughter and boyfriend held in Madrid organ sale murder plot
A Spanish mother is accused of conspiring with her daughter and the daughter's boyfriend to murder her partner – and then reporting the plan to police.Officers say the mother, 52, and daughter, 20, went to police to accuse the boyfriend of fraud, after he had failed to carry out the killing.
It is alleged they gave him €7,000 (£6,270) to hire a hitman to kill the mother's partner and sell his organs.
All three were arrested for the plot.
Police sources, quoted by Spanish media, say the plotters - all Spanish - signed a contract for the hit in March. But weeks passed, and finally the mother and daughter reported the boyfriend to police on 14 June.
The boyfriend, 29, had claimed to be in Spain's CNI intelligence service, and had fake documents to that effect. Police say he had assured the mother and daughter that he could hire a colleague to carry out the hit.
In a further twist, the daughter alleged that her mother's partner had defrauded them repeatedly, to the tune of €60,000 in total - the sum they hoped to get back by selling his organs.
The mother's partner is reported to be safe and in good health.
Spain's Efe news agency reports that among the boyfriend's fake documents was a CV in which he claimed to be a lieutenant-colonel in the CNI, skilled with firearms and martial arts, trained in targeted killings and interrogations, and expert in foreign languages, including Bengali and Hawaiian.
The three do not have police records. But now the police are also checking to see if the boyfriend committed any previous fraud, posing as a CNI agent.
Source: BBC News
If this turned out to be true, it would be an unusual crime.
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If this turned out to be true, it would be an unusual crime.
Can you think of any other crimes that caught the media's attention?
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If this wasn´t a crime, it would seem a comic sketch. It´s incredible. Everyone wants to deceive everyone. All of them are plotters. The mother´s partner defrauded €60,000 them and they paid €7,000 a hitman to kill him. The boyfriend was lieutenant-colonel in the CNI and expert in almost everything. ¡What fear! Mother and her daughter accuse the boyfriend of fraud and they said it to police, when fraud is a crime less grave than murder. They didn´t know that the police could arrest them. They wanted to kill him and, after, selling his organs to recover invested money. It´s completely crazy.
Let me, Graham, pay tribute to Atocha´s lawyers who were murdered in 1977 in Madrid. The Massacre of Atocha was a terrorist attack committed for the extreme right wing. Five labour attorneys of Comisiones Obreras and Communist Spanish Party were murdered, in cold blood, when they were working in their office. It was a horrible assassination. We felt panic and the air of Madrid was unbreathable. Thousands of people went to the burial which was in silence and without incidents. A lot of strikes were then. Murderers were condemned to prison for 193 years. There are streets and squares with their names in the province of Madrid.
Enjoy your holiday. If you want to increase your enjoyment in Inverness, think that we chew pollution in Madrid.
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If this wasn´t a crime, it would seem a comic sketch. It´s incredible. Everyone wants to deceive each other. All of them are plotters. The mother´s partner defrauded them of €60,000 and they paid a hitman €7,000 to kill him. The boyfriend was a lieutenant-colonel in the CNI and an expert in almost everything. How scary! A mother and her daughter accuse the boyfriend of fraud and they report it to the police, when fraud is a crime less grave than murder. They didn´t know that the police could arrest them. They wanted to kill him and then sell his organs to recover the money that they had paid. It´s completely crazy.
Let me, Graham, pay tribute to the Atocha lawyers who were murdered in Madrid in 1977. The Massacre of Atocha was a terrorist attack committed by the extreme right wing. Five labour attorneys of Comisiones Obreras and the Communist Spanish Party were murdered in cold blood, when they were working in their office. It was a horrible assassination. We were all panicking and the air in Madrid was unbreathable. Thousands of people went to the funeral which was in silence and without incidents. A lot of strikes were then called. The murderers were sentenced to prison for 193 years. There are streets and squares with their names in the province of Madrid.
Enjoy your holiday. If you want to increase your enjoyment in Inverness, just think that we chew pollution in Madrid.