Spanish "shoot" traffic tickets for Portuguese arrested
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Radar cars caught speeding and, when contacted to identify the driver, the owners pointed to a Portuguese. Who is in jail in Portugal. The scheme was used at least 55 times in six years, according to the "El País".Operation Radar was launched in June, when the Guardia Civil Spanish realized a strange coincidence. Between 2009 and 2015, at least 55 Galician caught speeding said their cars were driven by the same person, one Portuguese, and gave as address a chain in Portugal.The violations were detected by fixed speed cameras. As is the case in Portugal, through the registration of the vehicle, the Guardia Civil determines the identity and the owner's address and contact it to identify who at the time was driving. Only in Ourense, 37 people have returned the fine to the Portuguese citizen.It was enough to raise suspicions with the authorities, who sought a common bond between the owners. This link is a car dealership in Pontevedra, Galicia. It was there that the fines were sent and the owners were advised to use the ploy to avoid having to pay the fines and accumulate negative points on driving license.The Guardia Civil suspected that the owners of the cars ended up giving the stand the fines by the promise that they would get rid of the negative points in the letter. In some cases, the stand kept the money. Estimated to have been able to circumvent the authorities by 12 thousand euros.Security forces have extended the research to the rest of Galicia and found a total of 55 fines sent to Portugal. The owner of the stand and three others were arrested.
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