In recent hours, national and international authorities reported the capture of Michael Fraysse, a 44-year-old Romanian citizen accused of defrauding more than 500 Europeans. As highlighted in the case file, he would have managed to deceive people in 11 different countries, which made him a creditor of about 35 million euros. He was arrested in the Antioquia municipality of Rionegro accused of being the head of an international criminal organization dedicated to money laundering. It is noteworthy that the operation to find the whereabouts of the man was carried out in collaboration with French and Colombian authorities.
The operation was called ‘Irineo de Lyon’, and had the collaboration of French judges, the Colombian Prosecutor’s Office and a specialized Intelligence group of the National Police. In his name, Interpol had issued a red circular, so the authorities of 194 countries were willing to identify and arrest him. Fraysse, says the investigation against him, was one of the most wanted criminals in Europe. In that country, say the authorities, what “They have been linked to an international multi-crime organization since 2010, in which they would be the mastermind in the illegal appropriation of money through criminal organizations with incidence in 11 countries.”
Within the list of countries in which the man would have committed a crime are Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Belgium, Spain, Luxembourg, Italy, Israel, Romania, Lithuania and Estonia. As reported, at the time of his capture he was in a hotel complex where they rent furnished apartments. He had been in that place since April. He was in the company of his wife, a Venezuelan citizen. An elite police intelligence corps arrived there and, in order to do so, found it necessary to use “unmanned aircraft specialized in the identification and control of people”.
Michael Fraysse managed to establish 13 companies associated with a company name identified as CN2I, “where it offered financial products based on photovoltaic trading (construction of solar power plants), real estate in Spain, hotels in Romania and accommodation for seniors”. According to the investigation, investors decided to enter the business after being promised profits of 11% per year.
The nearly 500 people who were scammed by that citizen, the authority points out, “made monetary contributions between 10,000 and 600,000 euros, seizing a total of 35 million euros equivalent to 135,000 million pesos in Colombian currencywhich it distributed in more than 96 bank accounts worldwide”.
At the moment, detained in Colombia, he is waiting to be extradited to France to respond to that authority for the crimes of money laundering, aggravated tax fraud, aggravated fraud in criminal organization, deceptive business practices and aggravated tax fraud.
During the past week, the capture of a French citizen accused of fraud was reported. It was thanks to a joint operation between the National Police, the Specialized Interregional Jurisdiction (JIRS) of Bordeaux, the Colombian authorities and Europol that the whereabouts of the man were found. pointed out to deceive hundreds of people by means of the pyramid model.
While the red circular of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) was published in Europe, the investigated man was walking through the streets of Medellín after fleeing his country, then being persecuted by the French authorities that today, after weeks of permanent investigation and search, managed to intercept him in the company of the Colombian police. The 44-year-old man reached a figure of more than 33 million euros stolen after deceiving hundreds of people in this country, according to the French authorities, the figure would reach 400 victims.
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