Fraud and commercial falsehood

Buying a used car with low mileage may seem like a good opportunity. But, in this case, the data that helped sell the vehicles was falsified . A seller bought second-hand cars in the European market and advertised them to individuals online. Before selling them, he manipulated or had the odometer manipulated to make them appear much less used. The operations harmed 12 buyers.

The deception had a very specific consequence , buyers paid more than what the cars were really worth. A mileage lower than the true gave a misleading image of their wear, condition, and value. To calculate the damage, the resolution compares what each buyer paid with the market value that the vehicle had considering its actual kilometers. The repetition of these operations was classified as continued fraud . But the matter did not stop at the odometers. In several cases, the seller also modified the

original invoices of purchase to eliminate the true mileage. Afterwards, that documentation was presented to Traffic . The alteration of the invoices received separate treatment as it was not simply another way to deceive the buyer, but a forgery of commercial documents that helped to conceal the real situation of the vehicles and to give an appearance of normality to the operations. The responsibility was also not equal for the two defendants. The main seller was attributed both the

fraud and the document forgery fraud such as documentary falsification mileage was false , but the accepted facts did not attribute to him having manipulated the odometers or the invoices. The Provincial Court issued a sentence of conformity where the defendants and their defenses

accepted the terms of the conviction accepted the terms of the sentence requested by the accusations. Therefore, the resolution included that agreement, differentiating the behaviors attributed to each one.