Montemor-o-Novo: Former employee sentenced for embezzling 277 thousand euros.
Former employee sentenced Municipality, in legal height, to five years in prison for embezzlement and forgery. You have to compensate the municipality 277.000 diverted thousand euros.
By embezzlement and document forgery crimes, Custodio Yard, 53 year old, assistant coach of the Municipality of Montemor-o-Novo, He was sentenced by the Court of Évora, to five years in prison, suspended for the same period, and the payment of compensation to 277.860 euros, the city council.
arrested in 31 May 2016, the individual was head of treasury Montemorense County, frames which included had at least 15 year old, diverted money from the city council's coffers that have been spent on women.
The Collective of Judges chaired by Magistrate Cathy Cunha gave as proven the facts that the accused was charged, height of the last accusation 19 to a document forgery crime. The crime of embezzlement Custodio Yard, He was sentenced to five years in prison and two years for the crime of forgery, eventually be sentenced in a legal height 5 years in prison, suspended for the same period and subject to probation. The former official was also convicted in the civil compensation to the Municipality of Montemor-o-Novo on the amount of 277.800 euros, plus the Jutes 4% per year, from the date of notification until full payment. Custodio Yard, You are obliged to pay the minimum monthly amount of 300 euros.
As of detention, the officer had the responsibility of making deposits in the bank account values ​​of the local authority. Taking advantage of the functions, He started to deposit the same in own accounts. To evade being discovered, The deposit slips falsified, where rasurava your name and placed the authority. The scheme was discovered during a bank reconciliation, which they were detected differences between the statements of the bank and deposit documents of authority files.
At the time suspicion fell immediately on Thursday Custodio, as the municipality reported the facts to the public prosecutor (MP) Évora. Research of the National Unit for Combating Corruption of the Judicial Police (PJ), led to the arrest of the suspect was released, with daily performances at the city GNR post and drop functions.
During the search of the residence Custodio Yard, PJ seized two cars and diverse material related to the practice of criminal activity of the accused, but the Collective Court of Évora, It did not as proven, the application for a declaration of benefits and products to the State, deducted by MP, having determined the lifting of the preventive arrest and returned to the same defendant.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
