USP student suspected of deviation won 5 times in the lottery with games made after transfer

The student from the Faculty of Medicine of USP (FMUSP) accused by colleagues of having diverted almost R$ 1 million collected for the graduation of the class won five times in the lottery in 2022 with bets made after transferring, at the end of 2021, the amount belonging to the students to your personal account.

According to the Civil Police, Alicia Dudy Muller Veiga, 25, earned a total of R$326,000 in Lotofácil prizes after playing dozens of high-value games in a lottery in the south of São Paulo between April and July 2022.

The last time she tried to place a bet, she would have hit the establishment, causing a loss of BRL 192,000 to the trade, according to the investigation of the Specialized Criminal Investigations Police Station (Deic) of São Bernardo do Campo, where the occurrence was registered. by the lottery owners.

The discovery of the prizes took place after the opening of a police inquiry, still in July 2022, to investigate the young woman’s alleged coup against the lottery.

According to the owners of the establishment to the police, Alicia had been making daily bets of around R$9,000 since April.

On July 12, 2022, when she had already spent around BRL 461,000 on bets and even made friends with lottery employees, she tried to play a set of games at Lotofácil for a total of BRL 891,530.

For this, he presented, as proof of payment, a transfer schedule via Pix.

The employees then started recording the games and handing over the vouchers to the bettor, but the manager became suspicious of the situation and questioned the student about when the money would fall.

Still according to the police, the medical student, then, tried to “deceive” the lottery employees by showing a proof of transfer in the amount of R$ 891.53, but the manager ordered that the bets be stopped.

At that time, however, Alicia had already received receipts for BRL 193,000 in bets, even though she had paid only BRL 891.53 to the lottery.

She left the place with the stub of the bets she managed to place and the establishment suffered a loss of R$ 192,000, which made its owners look for the police, who opened an investigation against Alicia on suspicion of money laundering and embezzlement.

It was trying to unravel the origin of the money used in Alicia’s bets that delegate Katia Regina Cristofaro Martins, from Deic de São Bernardo, arrived at the information that she had won the lottery five times.

“We requested information from the Financial Activities Control Council (Coaf) (which monitors financial transactions) and we saw that she had received several awards, but, as they were amounts of legal origin, that did not say much”, said Katia to Estadão.

Until then, she and her team did not have information about the possible embezzlement of almost R$ 1 million from USP medical students by Alicia.

“I found out about this new fact last Friday. Now we have a lead on the origin of the money and I intend to collect testimony from the students of the graduation committee and the company involved, ”he said.

Collection

According to members of the graduation committee, the money for the graduation had been raised by the company Ás Formaturas for four years.

At the end of 2021, Alicia, who was president of the commission, requested the transfer of amounts to her personal account without the endorsement of other students in the group.

“Nobody knew until January 6, 2023 that she had withdrawn money from Ace’s account,” said a commission official who declined to be identified. It was on that date that Alicia, through a Whatsapp message in the commission’s group, claimed to have lost all the money.

In a note signed by all the students of the commission, the group states that Alicia violated “the Statute by moving that amount without the signature of any other member and transferring it to her personal account” and that “the attitude does not represent morally and ethically the posture of the other members of this committee and the more than 110 students who adhered”.

To her colleagues, Alicia declared that she withdrew the money from the company’s account because she was not providing a good service and decided to invest the resource with the Sentinel Bank brokerage, from which she would later have suffered a blow.

The investigated student says that the financial institution disappeared with about R$ 800 thousand and that the rest of the amount was spent by her with lawyers to try to recover the amount.

Questioned by the other students about the vouchers, she claims she does not have a service contract with Sentinel Bank because the document would have been taken in a robbery she suffered.

O Estadão tried to contact Alicia by call and message, but did not get a response. Calls went to voicemail and messages went unanswered.

Students said that she stopped attending academic activities this Monday, 16.

The company Ás Formaturas stated that “all transfers were carried out strictly as established in the contractual clauses” and said it was “available to the authorities to provide contracts, documents, emails and other information”.

The report was unable to locate representatives of Sentinel Bank.

“Commission had access to information,” suspect told CNN

THE CNN contacted Alicia Muller via WhatsApp this Saturday (15) to respond to the accusations.

She sent the following statement: “I deny all accusations and inform that the graduation committee had access to the information on the withdrawal of money.”