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A 38-year-old lawyer from Braga, Anabela Nogueira, who is the subject of several criminal investigations for alleged scams of which more than a dozen clients have been victims, confessed, in the Braga Court, to having forged the signature of a power of attorney Notarial used in the sale of a building, as well as the use of false authentication by an office colleague without her knowing anything.
At the hearing held in the Civil Unit, the judge, with the agreement of the parties, declared the real estate business null and void, since in addition to the falsification of the power of attorney, the seller, an elderly woman, was already legally prohibited from practicing this type of acts.
According to the MINHO, the lawyer continues to face another case in which four people demand 90,000 euros for allegedly selling a property due to falsification of a document.
The plaintiffs filed a civil lawsuit against the lawyer, her husband, a car dealer, a construction company that may have collaborated in a strategy to damage the assets of the heirs of Marcelino de Azevedo Santos. Two insurers are also targeted.
The injured say that the late Marcelino loaned 62,000 euros to two of the accused, through a confession of debts and the mortgage of two urban buildings in the parish of Arcos, Braga. The loan had to be paid in installments.
The mortgage was registered with the Conservatória do Registo Predial de Mira. The representative of the debtor was the lawyer’s husband, who always followed up on the matter. It turns out that, in May 2016, the lawyer filed a request for cancellation of the mortgage. To do this, he used a document that is usually presented in deeds.
“Alleged teasing”
But in December 2018, the late Marcelino’s attorney learned that the attorney had been in the news for “alleged scams involving a dozen buildings.”
For this reason, his lawyer, Paulo Alexandre Silva, asked him to go to the conservatory to collect a copy of the building’s records to proceed with the executions, because – according to the complainants – only the amount had been paid up to February 2015. 1200 euros. “To the greatest astonishment, it was concluded that the mortgages were illegally canceled,” writes the attorney, the plaintiff.
Loss of a million
Given this fact, the prosecutor returned to the conservatory, having been informed that the lawyer canceled the mortgages with a “ransom” with his signature. Since he hadn’t signed anything, he concluded that someone forged it.
In this sequence, he filed a complaint, one of several investigated in the Braga Judicial Police and that involves, among other illegal acts, the alleged forgery of the stamp and signature of a public defender in the office.
One million
The lawyer is suspected of having illegally sold several properties that belonged to clients, most of them immigrants. The fraud will reach a value of more than one million euros. In 2019, a defendant was constituted and the crimes of qualified fraud and document falsification were charged. However, there is still no prosecution.
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