Former Black and White Carnival queen Valentina Martínez has been prosecuted for using recovered credit cards. (Screenshot)

Thanks to many security camera recordingswhich met on Tuesday 21 February, showed how Valentina Martínez Cortéz, former queen of the 2020 Black and White Carnival, used several credit cards that were in a found wallet at the headquarters of a government entity.

“According to the criminal investigation, the facts for which the ex-queen is prosecuted took place on October 31, 2022 in the passport section of the facilities of the governor of the department of Nariño where the victim lost his wallet, a fact that has been recorded in the internal security cameras of the entity, ”they reported on the law student also at the office of the Attorney General of the Nation.

Although there were documents from the person who lost the valuable, Martínez Cortéz did not look for a way to return it to the owner, but used the bank cards fraudulently.

“He seized the wallet which contained the complainant’s debit card, credit card, cash and other personal documents. He used two debit cards to make purchases at malls pretending to be the victim in front of the authentication systems and manipulating the computer system. Besides, made transfers of less than 100,000 pesos avoiding the request for the access code”, They explained in the accusing body.

Once the thefts with the victim’s cards are known, in the investigative body, they began to collect the evidentiary material and analyzed the records of electronic media, such as purchase media in commercial establishments where Martínez Cortéz was to pursue her.

“He was charged by a local prosecutor for his alleged perpetrator of the offenses of electronic theft and the like”, they asserted.

Once they issued the warrant for the woman’s arrest, officials of the Technical Investigation Corps (CTI) of the Public Prosecutor’s Office have made effective when she was in the Prado Norte neighborhood of Pasto (Nariño).

Later she had to appear before a guarantee review judge who ordered an insurance measure, but without depriving her of her freedom, they indicated in the prosecution body.

Former Black and White Carnival queen Valentina Martínez has been prosecuted for using recovered credit cards.

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