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Arguidos alleged legal problems and borrowed money from the elderly. When they tried to get the money back, they were intimidated. The two couples were charged with 32 crimes of qualified fraud, one in the form of attempt and the other of money laundering.
Sérgio Ribeiro, a 34-year-old GNR military officer stationed in Guimarães, and his wife, Soraia Ribeiro, a 29-year-old justice auditor, liked high-end cars, fancy restaurants, travel, and clothing. branded. However, they were inaccessible pleasures to his “modest income.”
So they decided, with the help of parents of the military, retirees and residents of Mondim de Basto, to devise a plan to live the life of millionaires, “at the expense of others.” The soldier’s father, “well known, considerate and with a good reputation,” began asking people who trusted him for money, says the DIAP accusation in Braga.
Alone or with the help of his wife, the pensioner invoked “a situation of urgency and anguish” – the imminent arrest of his son or his possible expulsion from the GNR – and stated that he needed to make legal payments to avoid these outcomes. The victims, usually elderly in a frail situation, agreed to the requests. The money was given to the son, who used it largely to support his fancy tastes.
None of the defendants intended to repay the loans. In fact, when the victims tried to recover the money, it was privacy and therefore few complaints came.
Arrested in November 2019
In November of last year they were to be arrested. A year later, the accusation was known. According to the Public Ministry of ViIa Nova de Famalicão, between 2016 and 2019, the two couples managed to get 29 offended people, in some cases husband and wife, to give them 406,999 euros, a large part of which was used to finance “a high standard of living of the military accused of the GNR and of the accused justice prosecutor “and candidate for judge.
In addition to the 32 scams, the defendants are also accused of having circulated these amounts through bank accounts, with operations to make their traceability difficult, and of having converted them into numerous assets, hence the crime of money laundering.
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