Beja: Quartet trial for aggravated fraud and falsification in the purchase of cattle.
Four subjects aged between 25 and 52 year old, start today (Tuesday) on trial before the Court of Beja, before a collective judgment, acusados da co-autorial material, a crime of aggravated fraud and falsification of crime.
The incident occurred in September 2012, a farm in São Miguel do Pinheiro, municipality of Mértola, having the defendants managed to make the purchase of cattle, without any monetary outlay, through the use of a counterfeit check.
According to the indictment, individuals, with residences in Redondo, Mértola and Beja, They negotiated the victim, Antonio Felizardo, cattleman, acquiring 19 head of cattle, the amount of 8.978 euros, that "paid" using an "alleged" company check Expocarnes, based in Rio de Mouro (Sintra).
Illegally, the accused had taken possession of the company check, They falsified the same through a copy of a bank, where that company had no account.
To give "more credibility to the business", one of the defendants, resident in Redondo, She made through the alleged owner of the company and in the company of three other defendants, two of which father and son, victim's neighbors, "Realizing the purchase and deceiving" the farmer mertolense.
The individual considered the "brain" of the scheme, "Invented" the code of a cattle farm, needed to transport the same and requested the services of an animal transport company.
After loading the 19 cattle, near Mértola, the group headed for the Galician Varzim (Malveira), where a fifth element was waiting on his farm, where the discharge of the animals was made. The latter suspect was not pronounced, as called for investigating the case, where the magistrate has no way proven their "fraudulent involvement" in cattle acquisition.
The case arrives today to the Court of Beja, almost four years after the events, which they were investigated by inspectors from the Judicial Police.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
