Malaga, Jul 27 (EFE).- Two women have been arrested by the National Police for allegedly cheating more than 600,000 euros with the sale of medical supplies and a total of nine companies have been affected, two from Asturias, Madrid and Valencia, and one from León, Murcia and Valladolid.The women under investigation, aged 38 and 43, have been arrested, the first in Estepona and the second in Ferrol (A Coruña), as reported by the Police in a statement.The investigation began at the end of September 2021 by agents of the Cybercrime Group of the Valencia Provincial Judicial Police Brigade upon receiving a complaint, in which the person in charge of a pharmaceutical company claimed to have been the victim of a scam.The complainant claimed to have bought 1,000 antigen tests, which he never received after making a transfer with the required amount.During the investigations, the agents verified that the people behind the scam allegedly created several fictitious companies and that they opened bank accounts where they received transfers from the sales of the products they offered.By analyzing the movements of the receiving account, they detected that part of the money was moved to other accounts.The agents, in addition, during the development of the operation, detected the existence of eight other affected companies, for which different legal proceedings were opened in as many Investigating Courts.After numerous investigations, the agents managed to identify the people allegedly involved, two women and a man, who had perfectly differentiated roles.The man was allegedly in charge of managing advertisements on the Internet, offering products and holding conversations through anonymous emails and instant messaging applications with future customers.One of the women was in charge of receiving the transfers made by them in accounts that she herself would have opened for this purpose, even creating one in Lithuania and the other investigated, in turn, acted as a "mule", receiving part of the money from The transfers.The police also searched the home of one of those now detained, where they located and seized a laptop, two mobile phones and bank documentation.Those arrested, with police records, one of them for similar events, have gone to court and investigations are continuing to fully clarify the facts.EFE© La Vanguardia Ediciones, SLU All rights reserved.