The Public Ministry of Beja seeks the conviction of a former CGD employee tried for embezzlement and other crimes. The now employee of the Aljustrel Chamber seized more than 73 thousand from a customer.
A former employee of the Cuba counter at Caixa Geral de Depósitos (CGD), who took too much 73.081,19 euros from a customer's account, took over in full at the Court of Beja, the authorship of the five crimes he is accused of: one of embezzlement, two of forgery of document please, one of aggravated computer falsification and one of aggravated illegitimate access.
In a session that lasted 15 minutes, in which the indictment was read, after hearing the defendant and making the closing arguments, before a Panel of Judges led by magistrate Ana Batista, the individual 36 year old, resident in Ervidel, county Aljustrel, confessed without shame the illegalities committed in 2017, where through the "online direct box" system, accessed the customer's account and made the customer's money his own, who in the meantime has already died.
The defendant expressed regret for the facts committed., justifying that "it's a situation I think about every day, I regret the damage caused to all the injured.. It was a complicated phase that I will not repeat", finished.
The Attorney General's prosecutors (MP) asked for the defendant's conviction, but without the deprivation of liberty, but with the application of the accessory penalty of prohibiting the exercise of public functions, since he is an employee of the treasury of the Municipality of Aljustrel (CMA).
The defense attorney signed the MP's thesis, with the exception of the application of the accessory penalty, asking that there was no application of the same, arguing that “it would more than well create serious problems for a person who took up the mistakes, collaborated with justice and is integrated", concluded.
Between 17 July and 20 December 2017, to open and move the amounts from the victim's account, the individual forged the signature of the victim and also of the mother, without his knowledge and opened an account on behalf of the two, to be able to move the funds at your own pleasure, after closing victim's accounts. For the "be perfect" scheme, the defendant provided copies of the victim's and mother's citizen cards, what you got through CGD's computer system, falsified their signatures on the Signature Sheets and Account Opening Agreement.
The individual's scheme was discovered following an internal CGD audit, having in january of 2018, the defendant returned all the money that he had misappropriated.
After leaving CGD, the individual started working at the CMA and has already been a candidate three times, on the PS lists, to the Parish Council of Ervidel, but he was never elected president. Reading the judgment was set for the next day 22, to 14,00 hours, the Court of Beja.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
