an individual, of 27 year old, resident in Nevogilde (Lousada), was sentenced by a Panel of Judges of the Court of Beja to a single prison sentence of 5 years and 6 months and payment of 56.921,67 euros, sympathetically, with the company that manages, for three crimes of qualified fraud, one of which in an aggravated form.
Herdade da Estôsa, company owned and managed by the defendant, was sentenced for the same crimes to a single sentence of 660 days of fine to the daily rate of 100 euros, which makes a total of 66.000 euros.
Daniel Magalhães, knowledge as the “King of Cattle”, between 25 August and 4 September 2020, he bought 105 calves worth a total of 69.995 euros, carried out to three agricultural producers on farms located in Alentejo, namely in Ourique, São Marcos da Ataboeira (Castro Verde) and Alvalade do Sado (Santiago do Cacém) and which were never truly paid.
The individual set up a scheme that included “contact with cattle producers, made fictitious deposits through ATMs into their accounts and received the cattle. After two/three days, sellers were informed by their banks, that the check had no provision and that the amount that had been provisionally credited, withdrawn from your bank account.
From the ruling handed down last Friday, that the Lidador News (LN) We had access, the president of the Collective of Judges maintains that “the scheme set up by the defendant Daniel, It immediately follows that we are faced with a modus operandi, simple, but quite ingenious and effective. Yet, as confirmed in the present case, Such a scheme is also not perfect.”, concluded.”.
For not completing 30 year old, the court understood that the defendant could benefit from a pardon of one year in prison, if you do not commit any intentional infraction in the subsequent year and pay within 90 days after the ruling becomes final and unappealable, the fixed value of compensation.
Antonio Magalhães, also resident in Nevogilde (Lousada), and first de Daniel, was acquitted of the three crimes that the other two defendants were accused of.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
