The Mossos d’Esquadra They have arrested the owner of a bar Viladecans (Baix Llobregat) who presumably rides illegal poker scams. Although they have not arrested him for that reason. According to police sources, the suspect had spent months extorting a man of Moroccan nationality fond of those clandestine games.
The victim has assured the Catalan police that his problems with the owner of the bar began because he frequented the timbas that he supposedly organized. Timbas that were not going well, because he lost the money he bet. That was how he contracted a growing debt with the owner of the bar, who also acted as a moneylender.
The days passed without that debt, which in the end amounted to about 2,000 euros, was settled. The owner, according to the Catalan police, lost patience and ended up threatening the player and his family with a firearm.
A few weeks ago, the owner of the bar told the player that, due to the time that had elapsed, the debt had grown up to 10,000 euros. And he offered him the opportunity to get out of the quagmire he was in if he agreed to allow him to take a copper beret, valued at more or less that amount, from the company where he worked. All he had to do was open a back door and give her access.
Caught red-handed
The player then went to the Mossos d’Esquadra, recounted what happened, aware that agreeing to the extortion was going to cost him his job, as well as cause him problems with the law. The agents of the Martorell police station believed his story and set up a device at dawn to catch the owner of the Viladecans bar ‘red-handed’.
It happened like that. On November 25, the Mossos arrested the alleged extortionist by surprising him entering the player’s company accompanied by another person. This second person, also arrested, told the Catalan police that he did not know exactly what he was going to, that the only thing he knew was that the owner of the bar had promised him 500 euros if he accompanied him to do a job. The owner of the bar had just 500 euros on him that day.
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The Mossos are now investigating whether the van that the alleged extortionist brought to take away the copper coil belongs to a company that can act as a “receiver”, that is, that is dedicated to consciously buying stolen objects.
The owner of the bar has been released on charges of extortion, threats with a firearm and robbery tentatively. The Mossos will also investigate whether in that bar they continue to carry out illegal poker games.