Police said that three young suspects arrested in August on suspicion of posing as police officers were linked to scams targeting elderly people in several places, including Nijmegen and Vuren. A fourth young suspect is also involved, police said.

The suspects were also linked to a completed scam in Eindhoven and an attempted scam in Den Bosch. In August, they had tried to take money from an elderly person on Broerdijk in Nijmegen.