Cybercrime in Spain Rises 6.1%: Moroccan Nationals Among Top Foreign Suspects

According to the latest report on cybercrime in Spain 2021, recently published by the Ministry of the Interior, cybercrime represents 15.6% of the total number of criminal offenses, a percentage lower than the 16.3% of 2020. In total, 13,801 people have been arrested and are under investigation. Most of them are of Spanish origin (79.3%) and the rest are of Moroccan (2.9%), Romanian (2.1%) and Dominican (1.9%) origin.

These cybercriminals have victimized 240,000 people, of whom 51.9% are men aged between 26 and 40, an increase of 11.4% compared to 2020. The main cybercrimes are fraud, threats and sham marriages. However, computer fraud has the largest number of victims, mostly young people aged 26 and the elderly over 65, and of Spanish nationality (87.5%) and Moroccan, Romanian and Colombian (12.5%).