Several banks were shocked a decade ago when they discovered that an agent who had worked for them had spent years defrauding their clients. Those affected, in total, had lost millions of euros in non-existent investments and the suspect was not just anyone: it was Alfonso Bermúdez de la Puente, son of the Count of Castelo, well connected to the Madrid high society. In up to four sentences, different courts have confirmed that he defrauded almost 6.4 million from a total of 29 people, imposing sentences that exceed eight years in prison between them and for which the accused, now insolvent, has already gone to prison.
Bermúdez de la Puente, as revealed by his multiple sentences, began working in the banking sector as an agent in the early 2000s, when he was not yet 30 years old. With the company Capital Markers that he set up with a partner, he went on the hunt for clients with money to help them have more money. With juicy investments and with the authority conferred on him by the banks he worked with, but also taking advantage of the fact that many of those people knew him or were even family members.
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