Caregiver arrested in Lisbon for stealing money from elderly people’s bank accounts – Observer
A man was arrested, Lisbon, Friday, for the money to collect them in Marvila, revealed to a whole man who he started to take care of recently, banker after stealing the card this Thursday in SP.
In a note, the PSP reported that the suspect, 32 years old and living in Portugal only since May, would already have similar crimes while caring for another elderly person.
According to the PSP, the man started working as a caregiver at the home of an 85-year-old woman and her daughter, a 50-year-old woman with disability due to the disease.
The defendant, after accompanying the elderly to shopping, cunningly got to know the PIN of the card. That day, moments before leaving the house, he stole the victim’s MB card and in the process of withdrawing two ATMs, each 200 euros. After midnight, he returned to the ATM, withdrawing 0 euros, leaving only 18 cents in the victim’s account”, 3co explained.
The victim, who was left without all the money that would have been available for the daily expenses and daughter’s expenses until next time, presented to the police, to whom he revealed the suspicion of the recent caregiver of the family.
During a discovery of the MB card and, hidden among footwear, the 430 suspects were found uncovered.
Portugal it was possible to verify and protect the information about the suspect, despite the short time of residence in Portugal, similar crimes have already occurred while protecting another elderly person ”, underlined the PSP.
The man, who was detained by means of an arrest warrant out of flagrante delicto, was presented for judicial interrogation, having been arrested in preventive detention, the most serious measure.