Spanish businessman busted for stealing, selling about 2 million coronavirus face masks in Portugal

A Spanish businessman ripped off about 2 million face masks from a warehouse — and sold all but 100 to neighboring Portugal before he was busted, according to new reports.

The suspect, identified only as  the director of a well-known local real estate firm, swiped the masks and other protective equipment including surgical gloves back in February from a locked warehouse in the city of Santiago de Compostela — where a medical supplies company that had gone into liquidation was storing them, local police said, according to Metro UK.

The suspected thief then sold the items to contacts in Portugal, police said. Portuguese authorities helped investigators crack the case.