Beja: Odemira business couple, judged by the crimes of fraud and breach of trust, both aggravated.
entrepreneurs, former owners of a supermarket, generated a false invoice scheme purchases and sales, to inflate turnover and increase the selling price of the property, what came to get.
The couple Montemor, José, of 50 years and Lydia, of 43 year old, former owners of a supermarket in Odemira, the abbreviation "The Musketeers", They began to be tried in the Court of Beja, accused, material co-authored and finished form, a qualified swindling crime and other aggravated breach of trust.
According to the order for prosecution to the LN had access, the crimes occurred during the year 2009 and 2010, when the defendants "engineered a scheme" to inflate the volume of Ecomarché businesses that explored, to inflate the sale price of the property and the company Superodemira.
According to the document prepared by the prosecution, with a scheme of "acquisition" of purchases and sales invoices that did not, the couple an increase in turnover in shopping 895.068,73 euros and sales 657.229,84 euros.
Against this scheme, Joseph and Lydia have managed to increase valuation 300.000 euros on the sale of the supermarket and society to offended Olinda Sierra and Victor Francisco.
The defendants transferred to their accounts 718.00,27 euros, invoices whose goods not negotiated and not sold, that belonging to the company Superodemira, held by the offended.
The company was the subject of three cases of tax enforcement by the Tax Authority in the amount of 337.788,99 Euro buyers have not been aware of the actions, before the execution of the business.
In court, José Montemor, assumed full responsibility of the acts, not guilty woman, which remained silent, to have knowledge of the case or have moved cash, checks or invoices.
The defendant justified the issuance of purchases and sales invoices with the fact of wanting to "go up to share" with the North-South imti Portugal, owner of the group "The Musketeers", and thus "receive money to which he was entitled, works he had done "and that the" base ", the group headquarters in Alcanena, not paid him.
Joseph explained that all passed the card and loyalty of the group, arguing that the Accountant (TOC) I knew all that scheme "technical and accounting purposes was not illegal", and that Base, "I knew nothing", concluded.
Responses to the public prosecutor took this to say to the defendant that "you and those who are out there (witnesses) They got away to a crime of counterfeiting and should also be there all sitting (the dock)", concluded.
José Montemor not inhibited to tell the president of the Collective of Judges, Ana Baltazar, the Judicial Police "did an investigation that distorted the facts occurred", finished.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
