The deputy says that only Brazil has the right to monitor the process of defrauding a Brazilian immigrant.

The Portuguese Ministry of State considered that Brazilian immigrant Valdeshir da Silva Bravo was the target of an emigration scam, but argues that since he made payments in Brazil to those who swindled him, the case belongs to Brazilian justice.

“Facts exposed may be subject to inclusion in the crime of fraud,” the Lisbon West district prosecutor’s office said in a response to Valdesir’s complaint, to which Lusa had access.

But “given the location of the exposed criminal facts, established on the basis of the content of the report and the documentation attached by the applicant, it is already clear that the Portuguese Ministry of State does not have international competence in the field of criminal proceedings, therefore it is legally inadmissible to conduct an investigation (…)”, adds is the person in the document.

And concludes: “as follows from the report and documents attached by the applicant [Valdecir], he was in Brazil when he made these payments. In view of the foregoing, this is also the location of the investigated crime of fraud”, thus the case is transferred to the jurisdiction of Brazilian justice.

This is despite the fact that the alleged author of the scam had already been living in Portugal for several years when it all happened, and that Valdechir was not the only victim in the country who filed a complaint with the Portuguese police against the same Brazilian woman who promised a house, documents, travel and cars wishing to emigrate from Brazil to Portugal in exchange for thousands of euros, in short, a smoother migration process.

Valdecir Bravo, 32, is also one of the witnesses of Clesez Lima de Matos, another victim of the same compatriot of both, who filed a complaint with the Santarém police and also agreed to speak with Lusa to denounce the situation. . The Klezes case is currently under investigation.

When he left the Brazilian state of Parana with his wife and seven-year-old son for Portugal, where he arrived the day before Kleses, on October 11 last year, Valdechir thought that a house and even a car were waiting for him when he arrived in the land of destiny, but he had nothing .

Today, Valdechir lives with his family in a room in Santarem, but he has never had a shortage of work since he came to Portugal, where he works as an artist. The only problem is to recover the damages caused by the trust that he transferred into the hands of people he does not know, an amount exceeding nine thousand euros, although in court he requires to report only about 4,700 euros.

They met the alleged scammer through a very close friend of the couple’s families, who advised them to deal with this Brazilian citizen because that’s what she did and “it worked,” Valdecir said.

“People trusted because of it, in this case it was because of the indication,” he told Luz in Santarem, adding that the suspicion of fraud “was useful for some people to be able to deceive others.”

But he admits that from the moment he contacted this Brazilian citizen, until the day when the couple and their son arrived in Sao Paulo to catch their flight to Lisbon, he had not the slightest reason not to trust the woman, to whom he showed a copy of his citizenship document. card printed on the migration process document.

As regards the rent of the house, he related with excitement and nervousness how his compatriot had persuaded him to give her six annuities as security. “He went to the apartment and persuaded the owner to talk to us via video link, stating the amount he is demanding for the rent of the house,” he said, referring to the fact that he gave him 2,800 euros for this purpose.

After that, the alleged scam had a car salesman from Porto go to Santarém to make a video call “and explain everything about the car” and then send that amount as well.

“She is very professional. If you talk to her, you can be sure that she is an honest person,” he stressed.

The trust was so great that the family even planned a trip with a compatriot and her daughter to Paris, which would take place after the couple’s arrival in Lisbon, and paid all the expenses.

Now Valdecir does not demand the money he gave his compatriot for consulting work and documents, he only demands the rent for a house he has never seen and a car.

“We came here, she met us at the airport, took us to Santarém, made our NISS [número de identificação da Segurança Social] and our NIF [número de identificação fiscal]which has already been paid,” he explained.

“When it came time to draw up a lease that she would have to draw up for an apartment for us and our car, she left us at the hostel and did not want to know anything more.”

Waldecir showed Lusa direct transfers from his account to the account of a compatriot.

“We had savings, we sold a car, I sold six more cars, my wife’s motorcycle, I sold my motorcycle. We just didn’t sell the houses we have in Brazil,” he explained.

“She disappeared and we had to pay for the hostel,” he said, so he had to contact a friend who lives in Lisbon to help him get an apartment in Queluz. And from the alleged fraud, they only began to threaten him that if he filed a complaint with the Service for Foreigners and Borders (SEF), he would be deported.

Citing that he was not afraid of threats, he filed a complaint with the Quelusa police, which reached the Ministry of Public Administration.

“Unfortunately for me, the Ministry of Public Administration said that the scam took place in Brazil and that I would have to look for Brazilian bodies” in order to file a complaint, he complained.

But he didn’t give up because of this, he has already turned to Casa do Brasil for help to be able to guide him further in the process and ensure that he hires a lawyer to resolve the issue.

“Because people suffer from fraud in Brazil, she was here and has a residence here. And that’s the call we’re asking because she’s already scammed a lot of people, I’m sure at least five families,” reinforced .