They arrested a CDMX fraudster: fingerprints were cut so they could not be identified

The authorities of the Mexico captured a subject devoted to committing crimes of fraud. He was stopped for the sixth occasion and identified as Jonathan Berke Migoni.

However, he also names used Gonzalo Isidro López Fuentes and Antonio Valdez. According to the journalist of the red note Carlos Jiménez, he claims to be a surgeon by profession but “he’s a fraudster”.

In addition, reports indicate that “years ago” the alleged criminal fingerprints cut off so as not to be identified. It was agents from the Citizen Security Secretariat (SSC) who arrested him in the Mayor Benito Juárez.

Berke Migoni is already here stopped in the facilities of the The prosecutor’s office General of Justice of Mexico (FGJCDMX).

In May, Monica Arali Soto Fregoso, magistrate of Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judicial Power (TEPJF), was the victim of fraud when a stranger called her office, pretended to be another magistrate and scammed her secretary to convince her to deposit the amount of 41,987 pesos.

The suspected criminal, by telephone, claimed that Soto Fregoso had been the victim of a car accident and that your insurance policy has expired. He pointed out to the employee that the payment had to be made urgently or the magistrate would be in trouble.

The scam was recorded in the investigation file CI-FICOY / COY-5 / UI-3-C / D / 732 / 05-2021 of Mexico City Attorney General’s Office (FGJ-CDMX) for the offense of fraud.

It was Karen Urban, secretary of the civil servant, who received the call at his office located in the office of the mayor of Coyoacán, according to the report.

The alleged “magistrate Carlos Aguirre”, as a potential criminal was identified, called and succeeded in confuse Urban, although in the Superior Chamber of the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Power of the Federation there is no one with this name. He also mentioned that he needed to speak or leave a message for his alleged colleague, the magistrate. Monica Arali Soto Fregoso.

The secretary explained that her supervisor was not there when the man interrupted her and made up that she was receiving a call on another phone line. He claimed it was Soto Fregoso talking to him. “Carlos Aguirre” explained to the secretary that the magistrate had marked him because he had suffered an accident in his vehicle and he needed help because no tow truck was coming.

In the account he falsified, he said the magistrate provided him with the phone number of an insurance adjuster and asked him to contact him to resolve the issue.

Urban dialed the number provided by the potential scammer – the person who answered introduced himself as a representative of AXA Insurance and claimed that the auto policy had expired. She also mentioned that Soto Fregoso could therefore not be taken care of and that she was involved in a legal problem.

After raising the issue, the alleged AXA employee told him that he could “help” him, but only with the filing of the police payment: 41,987 pesos. Believing that she was helping her boss, the secretary made the delivery.

After the payment, Urban called the insurance expert’s take-over, who replied that more money was needed because due to the accident a person had been injured and medical costs had to be covered.

It was then that the secretary contacted Soto Fregoso’s private secretary to explain what was going on. So, they discovered the scam. The man confirmed that the magistrate had not been involved in any accident and that it was a fraud.

The Attorney General’s office in the capital is looking for the possible criminal. Subject was no longer answering phone calls.

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