People trying to take advantage of others suffering always happens when a case is made public, some people want to take advantage and make a quick buck by providing false information. Kidnappings that reach the media always generate an avalanche of calls from people, some in good faith offering information about the missing people, others not so, which is what has happened in this case as someone has asked for 5,000 euros to provide information on where the missing girls are.
The Guardia Civil is analyzing the conversation between the family spokesman, and president of Sos Desaparecidos, Joaquín Amills, and the person in question who was willing to provide information about Anna and Olivia, which investigators have already ruled out as being genuine.
According to Antenna 3 TV program ‘Espejo Público’, the person asked for 1,500 euros for each girl to report where they are, saying: "I know where Anna and Olivia are." According to the informant, who claimed to be called Jairo González Sepúlveda, the two girls had been sold in Colombia and he knew where they were, and who had bought them.
The man said that he wanted an initial 1,500 euros to tell investigators where Anna was, and then, once they had recovered her, a second 1,500 euros for the location of Olivia. Then the man wanted to charge 2,000 euros more when both were safe and sound, meaning 5,000 euros in total.
The man claiming to be Jairo González wanted to collect the money as soon as possible, and provided Amills with an account number of a bank in Colombia for him to deposit the first payment.
He went on to claim that the two girls were in a village in Colombia and that he had seen them, and that he could even get some pictures of them. The Guardia Civil is investigating the conversation that this scammer had with the family spokesman so they can locate him. The Armed Institute has contacted the Colombian police to try to find out if the name and account number he provided, correspond to someone so he can be reported or arrested for an alleged crime of fraud.
None of the information he provided is useful to the Guardia Civil or the family of the two girls. A police spokesman said: “We are in the same place. It's been over a month since anyone knew where Anna and Olivia are.”
