A criminal group that would be responsible for a procedural fraud system against financial institutions It is the target of an operation of the Civil Police of Rio Grande do Sul, this Thursday (8). According to the investigation, through false power of attorney and without customer consent, the suspects filed thousands of actions. In total, it is estimated that the damage is approximately R $ 50 million.
So far, one person has been arrested and three luxury cars were seized . In all, fourteen people are investigated – most, according to police, are lawyers.
The main investigated has a history of more than 100,000 allegedly illegitimate lawsuits filed at the Rio Grande do Sul Court of Justice. This represents, according to the police, approximately 47% of all lawsuits against banking institutions in Rio Grande do Sul.
The Civil Police explains that the suspects promised the victims of judicial revision of abusive charges in payroll loans. For this, the victims should pay 30% fees on the “recovered” values in court. After gaining customer documents, the investigated filed revision actions against financial institutions.
Then customers received amounts in their bank accounts, which they believed were due to the shares, and passed on part of the money to the company. However, the deposits came from new loans hired, without the consent of the holders. Upon noticing undue discounts on social security benefits, the victims found the fraud and could no longer contact the company.
In one case, the Civil Police say that more than 30 actions were filed on behalf of a victim without knowing it. Also, actions were filed on behalf of deceased people. It was verified, for example, that the power of attorney presented in the file contained a signature dated months after the death of the alleged grantor.
In all, 35 search and seizure warrants, nine orders for suspension of the law, breach of bank and fiscal secrecy and various precautionary measures, and blockage of up to 50 million reais in movable, real estate and financial assets. According to police, the warrants were served in the cities of Porto Alegre, Glorinha and Shangri-Lá.
Suspects are responsible for the crimes of estelionate, ideological falsehood, counterfeit private document, use of false document, procedural fraud, unfaithful sponsorship, misappropriation and criminal association.
This content was originally published in a group is suspected of loans on behalf of people already killed in RS on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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