This 70-year-old fraudster has been ripping off huge companies for three decades
José Trinidad Márquez pretends to be an oil executive in order to get commissions. In November and December of 2024 alone, he tried to ensnare 30 major companies in his network, including Samsung and Siemens
In 1998, José Trinidad Márquez appeared for the first time in EL PAÍS. The news story was about a fake oil executive who had been arrested for attempting to swindle millions of dollars from one of Spain’s largest companies, the shipbuilder Astilleros Españoles.
