The public prosecutor’s office revealed on its official website that a lawyer, exploiting his professional knowledge of two insolvent companies in Esmoriz, conspired with two other defendants to sell, in five different instances, the credit rights over uncompleted property units recognized by three creditor companies of the insolvent companies, without their consent.
To facilitate this, the lawyers created and used documents titled transfer contracts/promise of sale contracts on behalf of the creditor companies, fabricating the transfer of those credits to the victims, who were misled into believing they had acquired such rights, and subsequently made several payments to these defendants.
In executing the sales of the units, the lawyers were assisted by a real estate consultant, whose role was to attract clients, showcase the properties, and, in some cases, secure signatures on the forged documents.
As the insolvency proceedings progressed, those units were eventually seized and sold by the court to third parties, highlighted the prosecutor’s office.
“Confronted with the new owners, the victims were persuaded by the lawyers of the legality of the operations conducted, with one of the lawyers even representing the victims legally, presenting forged documents in court to establish the victims’ ownership of the units, which did not succeed, as the creditor companies intervened to deny the existence of any transfer contracts,” they emphasized.
As a result of these fraudulent sales, the defendants gained financial benefits amounting to 605,000 euros, which the victims had handed over in the supposed acquisitions that were never recognized.
The prosecution has requested that this amount be forfeited to the state, without prejudice to the victims’ rights.
