A woman will be tried on Wednesday in the fifth section of the Provincial Court of Pontevedra, based in Vigo, for having allegedly appropriated 140,000 euro from the store where she worked as an administrator through nearly fifty bank transfers and alterations of the real amounts of their payrolls.
The Public Ministry considers her the author of a continuous crime of aggravated fraud in a media contest with another continuous crime of falsification in a commercial document and requests for her six years in prison and a fine of 3,240 euro, as well as costs, in addition to compensation of 139,638 euro for the owner of the store.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office brief, the accused, of legal age and without a criminal record, provided employment services since 2002 in a clothing and accessories store, where she performed administrative and accounting functions and was in charge of entering the collection of sales in banks, as well as making payments to suppliers.
In the period between October 1, 2010 and March 31, 2020, the accused, faking the signature of the owner of the establishment and without her knowledge or consent, ordered, according to the prosecutor, a large number of bank transfers, either from the personal account of the store owner or the one from which the company ran.
On the one hand, she allegedly made transfers in favour of accounts with names of invented people, since they do not correspond to real people and were actually owned by the accused, or movements of money to the bank account that belonged to her mother, already deceased, who was therefore unaware of the facts, according to the brief.
To do this, she prepared, according to the prosecutor’s brief, a fraudulent document that did not correspond to reality so that the bank would pay her the amount of the transfer, making it her own. A second method of fraud consisted of fraudulently altering the real amounts on their payslips, to which the accused added or altered numbers that always represented amounts higher than those that actually corresponded to her.
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