Cristiano Ronaldo journey agent sentenced for scamming famous person out of close to $340,000 after being given digital bank card & code

A journey agent who conned Cristiano Ronaldo out of near $ 340,000 and scammed his agent and ex-Manchester United teammate Mani has been handed a four-year suspended jail time period.

Maria Silva, 53, was sentenced in a ruling in Porto following a scheme that additionally cheated super-agent Jorge Mendes out of greater than $ 19,000 and embezzled greater than $ 2,000 from Nani, in keeping with a report.

Ronaldo was spared having to attend Silva’s trial after she made a full assertion confessing to her crimes, though the five-time Ballon d’Or winner did present his personal assertion along with his lawyer Carlos Osorio de Castro after flying to the coastal metropolis by non-public jet and visiting a police station by a again door, Portuguese newspaper JN has mentioned.

The outlet detailed how grasping Silva abused the belief Ronaldo positioned in her when he offered his bank card particulars and PIN code.

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It’s alleged that the racket concerned round 200 journeys that the 36-year-old by no means made to locations round Europe, Africa, and the US.

The fraud was carried out by persuading different shoppers to switch money for itineraries she organized for them to her private checking account as an alternative of her journey company’s enterprise counterpart.

She would then bill the journeys to victims together with the four-time Champions League king with a view to “fill the outlet” left her in her firm’s accounts.

The newspaper mentioned that Silva adopted the identical ways to tear off Mendes, Nani and ex-Everton midfielder Manuel Fernandes, who now plies his commerce in Turkey.

To keep away from going to jail, Silva pays compensation to former employers Geostar, who’ve already refunded their shoppers for the cash they had been wrongly duped out of.

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Ronaldo turned the sufferer of the rip-off over a three-year interval which stretched from February 2007, whereas he was taking part in for Manchester United, to July 2010, when he had simply joined Actual Madrid in a world-record switch.

The report mentioned that the fraud was uncovered when the bank card Ronaldo had offered to the journey agent expired.

Ronaldo’s former Portugal teammate, Simao Sabrosa, was reportedly amongst different shoppers to switch cash to Silva’s private account.

She is claimed to have initially been questioned by police in 2013, declining to remark on the time earlier than making her confession in court docket.

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