Overview

• In Quepos, Costa Rica, investigators located two bodies buried near the Finca Cerros de Quepos after the couple was reported missing the previous day.
• Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Organization said the victims were German citizens and identified robbery as the likely motive.
• A Bingen resident reported being defrauded after paying over €10,000 for five purported gold bars that a bank determined were only gold-plated and worth about €50.
• Police provisionally detained two suspects on September 22 and, on the Mainz prosecutor’s request, an investigative judge authorized a search in North Rhine-Westphalia that uncovered 20 additional counterfeit bars.
• After fingerprinting and the searches, the suspects were released for lack of detention grounds, and the fraud investigation remains ongoing.