National Police officers belonging to the Specialised and Violent Crime Unit (UDEV) in Ibiza arrested a man of Senegalese origin on the morning of Monday 4 August on suspicion of fraud. The events under investigation took place during the month of June 2025, when a man stayed at a well-known hotel on the island and left without paying the corresponding amount, which amounted to more than 17,600 euros for several weeks of accommodation and meals at the hotel.
Consequently, at the beginning of July, Ibiza National Police received a complaint from the legal representative of the hotel reporting a crime of fraud. In the complaint, the complainant stated that they had received several bank notifications referring to the return of payments allegedly already made by the customer and that, when this was communicated to the customer, he left the hotel without paying the large amount remaining.
From that moment on, work began to fully identify and locate the perpetrator of the crime, as a result of which the specialised group (UDEV) located the suspect in extremis and arrested him one day before he was due to leave the island for Paris, while he was staying at another hotel in Sant Antoni de Portmany, on the island of Ibiza, thus preventing his likely escape.
He was also carrying numerous documents among his belongings which, after consultation with the French and Swiss authorities, turned out to be false. This arrest is one of the most significant of the season on Ibiza for crimes of fraud in hotel establishments. The detainee has been brought before the duty magistrate’s court.
Earlier this year in Mallorca, a 41-year-old woman was arrested by the sa Pobla Guardia Civil after withdrawing 900 euros with a credit card that had been left to her by a friend for her to withdraw 60. The victim filed a complaint with the Guardia Civil after lending her card to a mate to withdraw 60 euros from an ATM, but the woman withdrew 900 without her consent. The officers opened an investigation to try to clarify what had happened and analysed the security cameras of the bank branch where the woman had withdrawn the money. The suspect was identified and arrested as the alleged perpetrator of a crime of misappropriation.