A seer is imprisoned for allegedly swindling 31,000 euros from a client

Section 8 of the Barcelona Court has sentenced this Monday to 2 and a half years in prison a television seer and head of an esoteric cabinet, her son and another cabinet worker for allegedly swindling 31,000 euros from a client taking advantage of passing by a bad moment".

In the sentence, they are sentenced for a continued crime of fraud and a disqualification for all economic activity related to esotericism during the same time.

The accusation also asked to accuse them of an alleged crime of belonging to a criminal group, but the court has acquitted the three defendants of this crime.

In 2016, the victim "who was in a hole and did not know how to get out", saw the seer's program on television and decided to go to her office in Barcelona, ​​who laid out the cards for her and predicted her imminent death and that of her pets. , for suffering from the evil eye.

The defendant, "creating in the victim a state of fear and insecurity" due to her family and health problems, in order to solve her problems and with the aim of benefiting financially, told the woman to contact the other two defendants, who They confirmed the forecasts that the accused had just made.

The victim gave them 4,400 euros in cash, according to what they had told her, "telling her that everything would be solved faster if she paid in cash."

During the following days, the defendants explained to the victim a similar case that they had had in the cabinet and that had ended with the death of the family's daughter, "contributing to transmitting a cerval fear for her life that led her to comply everything that the defendants were telling him".

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On the second appointment, they told him again that "his illness was so serious that he needed the help of other people" such as Father Giorgio, who was a chaplain at the Vatican, and that in order to request his help he had to pay 10,000 euros so that Father went to Jerusalem to save the life of the affected.

Three days later, the convicted persons told him that Father Giorgio had suffered an accident when getting off the plane "because of him", and they asked him for 17,000 euros for the services of the alleged victim, although they asked him again for 10,000 more so that he could be saved before Christmas.

The victim returned to the Cabinet reporting that she no longer had any cash left, but the defendants, according to the sentence, once again asked her for 3,000 euros so that Father Giorgio would bury some of her clothes in Jerusalem "for her salvation".

The victim was in a "very fragile state"

The woman tried to call the Cabinet the following days to claim the bills for the alleged services that she had paid, until she showed up at her offices with a recorder in her bag, which the defendants detected and stole.

The ruling highlights "the state of great fragility and emotional vulnerability (of the victim), as a result of an anxious-depressive syndrome with emotional stress that had been dragging on for years as a result of various traumatological pathologies that had been diagnosed", for which the 30 On September 2015, at the age of 57, he was granted retirement due to Permanent Disability with a Degree of Absolute Disability.

The victim has renounced to be compensated for the facts, and the sentence states that "her objective is only that the accused do not commit similar acts with other people".