{"id":63942,"date":"2020-04-09T02:24:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T02:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=63942"},"modified":"2020-04-09T02:26:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T02:26:20","slug":"man-busted-stealing-selling-2-million-coronavirus-face-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=63942","title":{"rendered":"Man busted for stealing, selling about 2 million coronavirus face masks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Spanish businessman ripped off about 2 million face masks from a warehouse \u2014 and sold all but 100 to neighboring Portugal before he was busted, according to new reports.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, identified only as the director of a well-known local real estate firm, swiped the masks and other protective equipment including surgical gloves back in February from a locked warehouse in the city of Santiago de Compostela \u2014 where a medical supplies company that had gone into liquidation was storing them, local police said,\u00a0according to Metro UK.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post2\"><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Adv<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bagfactory.com.hk\/216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Sun Winning Ind Co<\/strong><\/span><\/a>: Manufacture of Canvas Bag, Recycle Bad in China<\/li>\r\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theunitravel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TheUniTravel.com<\/a><\/strong><\/span> : Find the latest\u00a0<em>travel<\/em>\u00a0and tourism\u00a0<em>news<\/em>\u00a0from around the world. Stay informed with\u00a0<em>travel news<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>updates<\/em><\/li>\r\n \t\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>The suspected thief then sold the items to contacts in Portugal, police said. Portuguese authorities helped investigators crack the case.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Spanish government was forced to buy face masks from China in an emergency purchase as the virus infected its citizens, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>Alfonso Rueda, vice president of the Xunta de Galicia regional government, visited the theft site Monday and found that only about 100 of the 2 million face masks stored there were left untouched.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe police received a tip-off that there could have been valuable health equipment here which would have been so necessary in the fight against COVID-19,\u201d he said, according to Metro. \u201cIt had been cleaned out by the time they arrived. We calculate 2 million face masks have been stolen. Only the boxes are left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63943\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/6.jpg 915w, https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/6-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/6-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are also empty boxes which contained surgical gloves but we don\u2019t know at this stage exactly how many are missing,\u201d Rueda added.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged thief deliberately selected items he knew would have high resale value, the official said.<\/p>\n\n<p>The man was identified and arrested by authorities, and has already made an initial court appearance, according to Rueda.<\/p>\n<p>Court sources confirmed he was released on bail during a closed court hearing, Metro reported. The judicial investigation is still underway.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 146,690 coronavirus cases have been reported in Spain \u2014 second only to the US, with the highest number of infections, according to Johns Hopkins University statistics. A total of 14,555 people have died of the virus in the country, the second-highest death toll next to Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Spanish businessman ripped off about 2 million face masks from a warehouse \u2014 and sold all but 100 to neighboring Portugal before he was busted, according to new reports. 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