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Another civil case in the Court of Braga for the sale of a house to an emigrant couple in France by a lawyer from Braga.
The couple affirm that the lawyer Anabela Nogueira sold them, in 1996, an apartment in Gualtar, Braga, but using a forged signature and a false power of attorney. The claim, which will be judged on November 26 in the Civil Unit, has a value of 77,870 euros.
According to a plaintiff’s source, it was the lawyer who sold them the apartment in 2017.
At the end of September, Anabela Nogueira -who has been denying the irregularities- faced two lawsuits of the same content, one of which, her lawyer recognized that her constituent had “falsified the signature of a power of attorney used in the sale of a property, as well as the use of false authentication by a colleague in the office, without her knowing anything. “
The lawyer even said, in an email sent to O MINHO, that it was “false that I confessed in the Braga Court to have falsified the signature” since she was not even present in any judicial process, in which I was a party, in the last months.
“Regarding the outlines of the ongoing processes, I can only say that your news suffers from serious inaccuracies and that they will be clarified when the processes are finished,” he explained, using the Right of Reply provided for in the Press Law.
Days later, the lawyer informed the judge in charge of the case that she did not recognize this part of the agreement, denying precisely that she forged her colleague’s signature.
This position, taken in writing, led his defender, lawyer João Gaio, to renounce the sponsorship of the accused.
Third process
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. Act that the accused Anabela Nogueira came, now, to contradict.
According to the MINHO, the lawyer also faces a third case in which four people demand 90,000 euros for allegedly selling a property by falsifying 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 generally presented in deeds.
“Alleged teasing”
But in December 2018, the late Marcelino’s lawyer learned that the lawyer 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 records to proceed with the executions, because – according to the complainants – only the amount had been paid up to February 2015. 1,200 euros. “To the greatest astonishment, it was concluded that the mortgages were illegally canceled,” writes the attorney, the plaintiff.
loss of a million.
Faced with this fact, the prosecutor returned to the conservatory, having been informed that the lawyer canceled the mortgages with a “distraction” 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, who denies having committed any crime, is suspected of illegally selling several properties that belonged to clients, most of them immigrants. The scam 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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