The story of the wealthy octogenarian from Tg. I died that a pimp left without seven apartments

A pimp from Târgu Mureş managed to deceive a lonely rich old woman, taking advantage of her advanced age and medical problems, leaving her without seven apartments that the 84-year-old woman owned in the city.

After four years of investigation and trials, the Târgu Mureş District Court sentenced the 25-year-old man to five years and four months in prison for continued fraud. In addition, the court ordered him to pay a material fraud to the scammed old woman in the amount of 500,000 euros (the value of the apartments) and 50,000 euros as non-pecuniary damage. The court’s decision is not final, on October 26 at the Târgu Mureş Court of Appeal the trial of the appeal filed by the convicted person will begin.

The case of Târgu Mureş shows the ease with which the elderly fall prey to scammers, but also how real estate agents manage to act with the broad competence of those who must ensure the legality of documents: notaries.

The young man from Târgu Mureş was only 20 years old when he managed to enter the graces of the rich old woman, presenting himself as an orphan and homeless child. In reality, the individual was a pimp who facilitated the prostitution of minors. In 2017, he was sentenced with suspension for pimping, without the old woman, who thought she was a poor orphan, knowing about his criminal situation.

The woman owned two buildings in Târgu Mureş, which had several apartments rented to different people. During April 2015, she rented the 20-year-old, with whom she became very close in time, in a context in which she had no children or relatives in Târgu Mureş.

He signed to the limit, without knowing what he signed

After a few months, managing to gain the trust of the owner, he offered to help her obtain European funds for the renovation of the two buildings, informing her that she had to sign a special power of attorney before a public notary, by which she was empowered. to carry out any transaction related to the respective properties, granting full rights.

Thus, the young man convinced the owner to go to a notary in Târgu Mureş, where a power of attorney was signed empowering the so-called “orphan” to carry out property management operations, but also to represent her before full powers, for the purposes to sell the properties indicated above, at the price and conditions that he himself will establish. To be credible, the scammer had several people call the old woman and falsely tell her that the case to obtain European funds had been pre-approved. And to support the project, the octogenarian also had to contribute a certain amount.

In front of the court, the old woman stated that she did not want to sell those flats, but only wanted to conclude some mortgage contracts to obtain European funds. The old woman claimed that the notarial deeds were not read to her before signing them. The woman had blind trust in the scammer who took her money out of her accounts as soon as he sold the apartments. In fact, shortly after running out of the seven apartments, she claimed that “the rich made the orphan do those things.”

Diagnosed with dementia, the old woman was easily influenced

“Given the advanced age of the injured person and the degree of severe disability established against him, as evidenced by the forensic documents presented in the file, the injured person did not have full representation of the legal consequences produced by the events thus concluded in terms Thus, the court considers the aspects declared by him in the sense that, only later did he realize that he was deceived regarding the “obtaining of European funds”, the purpose of the accused being only to come into possession of your property or to benefit from the money resulting from its sale, in a substantial amount, although subsequent transactions were aimed at small amounts, below the market value ”, is mentioned in the decision of the Court of Târgu-Mureş.

During the trial, a forensic psychiatric examination was carried out, after which it was established that the 84-year-old woman suffers from incipient senile dementia and severe visual disturbances, being classified as severely disabled.

The medical-legal conclusions highlighted that “regarding the mental capacity of the injured person to assess the socio-legal consequences of the provisions concluded in the 2015-2016 period, it was diminished, the injured being easily suggestible and influential in the context of pathology deteriorating. severe psychiatric vision loss; Regarding visual acuity, it was estimated that in the period 2015-2016 the injured person could not take note of written information, in the context of the marked decrease in vision ”.

The scammer had a flattering attitude towards the landlord.

During the trial, several witnesses were heard, including real estate agents that the scammer found through small advertisements in the newspapers.

One of the witnesses reported that the man wanted to get money very quickly, that he was “deceiving people”, respectively, he offered them offers to his detriment and asked him to perform in front of the old woman. Another witness said that the 20-year-old presented the octogenarian as a wealthy person, whom he had to use, implying that he was trying to “leave her without real estate.” The witness told the judges that she noticed that the defendant “had a flattering attitude towards the injured person in the sense that he called her, visited her, even slept with her, treated her, but nevertheless, the defendant did these things alone to take advantage of the injured ”.

During the investigation, the prosecutors instituted seizures in the seven apartments sold, but the court ordered that the seizures be lifted, noting that the goods are not in the name of the defendant, but of owners who bought them in good faith, so that Extended confiscation provisions apply.

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