Three defendants, including a former bank employee, were sentenced by the Feira court this Friday afternoon to imprisonment suspended for a period of two to five years for the theft of approximately 240 thousand euros from Montepio General. A woman also accused in the case was acquitted of the crimes she was accused of.
The defendants were also sentenced to pay compensation ranging from 1,500 to 6,000 euros.
According to the ministry’s indictment, between 2014 and 2016, the defendants stole approximately 240 thousand euros from the accounts of Caixa Económica Montepio Geral clients in Espinho and Gaia.
The defendants were arraigned in Feira Court for skilled fraud, unlawful access, computer falsification, forgery and money laundering.
The defendant, who worked as a teller, selected inactive accounts to transfer funds discreetly, relying on the help of acquaintances to embezzle the money, causing losses equivalent to the amount transferred to the bank.
Author: Paulo Jorge Duarte
Source: CM Jornal
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