A Gelderland medical products company was defrauded of millions of euros through e-mail fraud. The police announced this yesterday.
The company was under the impression it was doing business with its regular Korean supplier and had ordered a large number of corona rapid tests. The attackers likely had access to the e-mail exchange between the two companies. This allowed them to send a fake invoice to the Gelderland company.
In October, the company learned that the millions of euros they had transferred had not ended up in their Korean supplier's bank account. Instead, the money turned out to have ended up in a bank account in Indonesia. "In an extremely devious way, this type of fraud was carried out. A fake company was even set up and they eventually managed to significantly disadvantage the Dutch company through fake accounts, which were indistinguishable from the real thing," the police wrote in a news release on its website.
After the Gelderland company filed a report, an investigation was launched. Subsequently, the criminals' bank account was frozen. "Part of the amount is in sight and the Netherlands has requested Indonesia to return the money that has been secured to the Gelderland company," the police informed. Indonesian authorities have arrested three suspects in the case, including the main suspect.
