accused man defrauded a couple 400,000 euros from Alcúdia by selling diamonds Africans guaranteed this wednesday Gems stolen in a deadly robbery Sierra Leone. “They were stolen from me in an attack. They killed two people,” said the 71-year-old defendant at the hearing at the Palma Provincial Court. Thus, he denied having confiscated the money of the injured parties: “I tried to fool anyone in my life”declared in court.
The prosecution alleges that the man kept the money with him, and for him three and a half years in prison for fraud. According to the indictment, he introduced himself to the victims in March 2012 as a businessman who traded diamonds in Sierra Leone. affected they finally asked for a mortgage loan for a house, they received 500.000 Euros for it. They gave 400 thousand euros to the defendant to buy the diamonds, but they took nothing and in the end they blamed him.
The defendant explained that he went to Sierra Leone with the money of various investors, including the victims. “I invested more than three million dollars that day. I played”, assured. According to his version, he bought the gems directly from some miners and paid them in cash. you do not have any receipts for the operation. They were stolen on the way to Freetown, the nation’s capital. “I was attacked. It looks like a movie but it’s not. I was with four people and they killed two”, stated. “My biggest mistake was being reckless.”
Acknowledging that he had filed another complaint in Catalonia for similar incidents, the man said: his “obsession” is to return the money to the victims.
Source: Informacion
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