The old man trusted her. So he hired her as an assistant two months ago, enough time for the woman to cheat him out of €40,000. The Civil Guard arrested a 50-year-old woman who was caring for an 89-year-old man in Cabezón de la Sal (Cantabria), from whom she had stolen 32,000 euros that he kept in a bank account and another 8,000 euros he stayed at home. Likewise, the arrested woman persuaded the major to change the will in her favor. Initial investigations indicate that she became the manager of his financial resources under the pretense of managing expenses in order to steal the funds from him. The Guardia Civil is also investigating the main suspect’s couple as possible accomplices in fraud and theft.
The operation began at the end of July, according to the armed institute, when the octogenarian denounced that he had run out of savings. The deceased “exploited the victim’s precarious situation to withdraw the savings from her bank account, change the pension’s residence, steal around €8,000 in cash from her home and persuade the old man to change the will in her favour.” .” said a statement from Prayer released this morning. To this sum must be added the 32,000 euros that he quickly withdrew from this account. The Civil Guard has also pointed out that the assistant persuaded the Cantabrian to draw up a will in her favour, in which she argued that in this way her proper care could be guaranteed on her part.
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The sudden emptying of the accounts surprised those affected, according to the ROCA team from Cabezón de la Sal, which specializes in helping the elderly. The first corporal of this group, Diego Lamadrid, explains that the man “has no family, just a few cousins, no support from family partners”, so he commented on what happened to those around him and that it was these people who were on guard alarmed. Postpone them the next day to find out the facts and file the complaint. “He’s doing relatively well, very well for his age,” Lamadrid claims of the victim, who has declined to speak to the media.
The man explained that he had made an agreement with a neighbor from town so that she could take care of him. And so they found that in his personal and financial life she refused to charge for her work: “He told her that he preferred not to charge, that he managed the money and took the money accordingly; She had the will to take over the business of the man who trusted her.” The corporal explains that by concentrating on the defendant’s banking transactions, he found out that she had gone to the bank with the man to open a joint account and that it immediately began diverting the funds there for disposal and constant cash withdrawals at branches.
Among the expenditures, “plentiful purchases and payments for services in public administration” stand out, which still need to be specified, but apparently “the settlement of debts or taxes”. The woman was summoned to the Cantabrian Barracks and there she “told informal things, justifying herself with the old man’s permission, with a certain theatricality, but when she explained to the lawyer that she didn’t want to speak.” Investigators are investigating that too Couple of the woman arrested, a 63-year-old from Santander, for possible collaboration in these fraud and theft crimes.
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The agent acknowledges the gratitude of the man who walked and chatted with one of the uniformed officers in a video released by the Guardia Civil. Lamadrid reminds that they will follow up on how the money is returned and that the ROCA system is designed to help people in this situation and will be responsible for requesting help, along with contacts with social workers to ” to reduce the economic situation”. “precariousness” of the victim.