Arrested network that cheated with granting work visas in Canada | El Salvador News

The captured, according to the National Civil Police (PNC), offered visas through an office located in the Escalón neighborhood of San Salvador.

The detainees were identified as Eric Ernesto Campos, Guillermo Adolfo Guillén Villeda, Ana María Ibarra Guzmán and Wendy Yamileth France. The four will face the crime of fraud. The authorities indicated that they operated under the name of two companies: Employee to Bussines S. A. and Gift Abroad El Salvador S. A.

Guillén Villeda, as recorded in minutes 209 of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) issued in 2012, worked as electoral supervisor with the position No. 01536-PEE / 2012 from March 1 to 10 of that year; and competed to the position of councilor owner of the municipal council for the municipality of Ilopango, in the department of San Salvador, in the 2009 elections on behalf of the FDR party. He was in the FMLN.

The victims, mostly from the east of the country, were transferred from their homes to the capital, where the structure carried out tests to determine if they were fit for the trip. If the victims passed the tests, they were taken abroad, specifically to Guatemala, for an alleged medical check-up. The position they were offered was as pickers in fruit and vegetable crops in Canada, with the promise of good remuneration.

Initially, the victims paid $ 35 to fill out a diplomatic form; then, they were asked for laboratory tests, performed by Dr. Ibarra Guzmán, who charged them another $ 35. When they were taken to Guatemala, the structure charged them between $ 250 and $ 350; the victims were housed in low-cost hotels and transported by buses, said the chief prosecutor. A total of between $ 2,000 were transferred to the structure. The authorities registered six properties, which they assume were used by the network.

They also seized two 22-caliber rifles, 45 cartridges, five cell phones, a chip, a laptop, six hard drives and corporate documents. The defendants could face penalties between two and five years in prison, if the scam exceeds $ 22.85.