Peru approves request to Spain for the extradition of accused of fraud with Bad Bunny tickets

The Government of Peru has approved this Wednesday the request to extradite from Spain the Peruvian Pamela Cabanillas, denounced for fraud in the fraudulent sale of tickets to the Bad Bunny and Daddy Yankee concerts last year in Lima.

In a government statement, the Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Daniel Maurate, indicated that the Executive decided to “accept the request for active extradition” of Cabanillas so that she can be extradited from Spain and processed in Peru.

Last week, the Supreme Court completed the requirements to “obtain delivery” of the defendant, who is being investigated for alleged identity theft, aggravated fraud and document forgery.

Upon arrival in Peru, the 19-year-old defendant must serve nine months in pretrial detention.

Cabanillas has been identified as the leader of a gang, called “Los QR de la estafa”, because he copied the data from a digital platform for buying concert tickets in order to obtain nearly half a million soles (133,000 dollars) from the fans who were waiting to attend the presentation of their artists.

On the day of the Bad Bunny and Daddy Yankee concerts in Lima, hundreds of people complained that their tickets had been cloned or that the system did not recognize their QR, even though they had purchased the tickets on the designated platform for those events.

The National Police received the complaints about the alleged fraud and located the person responsible for the apparent mafia when Cabanillas had already left Peru for Europe.

Through his social networks, Cabanillas admitted his participation in the massive sale of false concert tickets, but said that he could not return the money because he had spent it all, while showing his walks through Italy and then through Spain.

Finally, Cabanillas was arrested in Madrid on March 1 in compliance with an alert from the Peruvian authorities at Interpol, which began the process of her extradition.