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A Lagoa bank manager, aged 45, has been accused - along with her PJ inspector husband - of siphoning off over €300,000 from the account of north American clients.
According to the Public Ministry, the couple - facing trial in Portimão - acquired a BMW with some of the money (over €60,000) to ‘launder’ part of the plundered funds.
The money was first transferred to the bank account of a relative in Setúbal, writes Correio da Manhã tabloid, and then “passed” to the account of the two defendants, “at a third bank”.
The woman bank manager, who has since been “fired from her job”, is also accused of having taken “a few more thousand euros from the Americans with the use of a multibanco card which she managed to obtain”.
The woman is facing various charges, money-laundering being one of them, along with abuse of confidence, falsification of a document (in a continued way), IT fraud and falsification.
Her husband, described as an inspector of the PJ aged 48, is accused of money-laundering, the paper adds.
The case refers to incidents during the years 2010-2015. Says CM, the Public Ministry has described it as “an absolute priority”.
Meantime, the paper stresses that there has been “no restitution” of any of the money allegedly falsely appropriated, although the BMW purchased by the defendants has been seized as a result of the proceedings,” as well as five properties acquired during the period investigated”.
The Lagoa bank where the woman used to work has reportedly presented an official complaint.
The trial continues.
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