A gang fakes Crespo’s identity to rob a bank in Argentina

New investigations into the failed robbery of the Makro Bank in the Argentine city of San Isidro – which was an imitation of the “theft of the century” that the same city witnessed in 2006 and was embodied in books, series and films – revealed that the phone of one of the thieves participating in the operation was registered with a forged document in the name of a coach. Al Ain team, Hernan Crespo, for the purpose of misleading. The revelation of the investigations comes at a time when the coach is going through difficult times with Al-Zaeem, as the 4-2 loss to Al-Gharafa in the AFC Champions League (Elite) caused a decline in his popularity.

The Argentine radio station Aire de Santa Fe said that the thieves implicated coach Hernan Crespo in the matter without his knowledge, by using a fake identity in his name to purchase a cell phone for the purpose of communicating with each other to coordinate the operation, in an attempt to mislead and not leave any information behind.

The coincidence caused the robbery to collapse last month, after the Argentine police discovered the existence of a carefully built tunnel, 220 meters long and three meters deep underground, equipped with a dense wooden frame, ventilation and electricity system, and ending a few meters away from a Banco branch. Macro” in the city of San Isidro.

The Argentine police learned of the tunnel when the driver of a parked car heard a noise from the body of his car, before realizing that it was a metal rod sticking out from between the stones of the street pavement. The local public prosecutor’s office was subsequently ordered to conduct searches, which led to finding the tunnel and determining its starting point, which was an abandoned barn 200 meters away, where a large amount of backfilling and excavation equipment was discovered.

The Argentine radio indicated that the date on which the thieves obtained the number in the forged document of coach Hernan Crespo dates back to before the beginning of the tunnel digging process, specifically when they rented the “Hapis Corpus” café located next to the bank, for the purpose of conducting a study of the surroundings of the place and getting to know the branch closely.

The radio quoted a main source in the case as saying that the gang obtained public data published on the Internet in the name of the former player for the Argentine national team and the current coach of the Emirati team Al Ain, pointing out that what they did was not difficult.

The source said: “It is clear that she drew up the plan with public information. Why buy a phone number in the name of Crespo? “No one knows. One possibility is that she wanted to leave some information as a joke, similar to the message left in the historic Rio Bank robbery.”

During the Rio Bank incident, the thieves stole about $19 million and escaped through a tunnel.

• The thieves obtained the phone number from the forged document of Coach Crespo before the start of the tunnel digging operation.