Rio de Janeiro. File photoBUENOS AIRES, Aug 10 A Brazilian woman with accomplices robbed her mother of $143 million, making an elderly woman believe she was about to die, G1 reported. «The woman was arrested on the morning of August 10 in Rio de Janeiro for (stealing) millions from her own mother,» the media notes. According to the investigation, the daughter developed a fraud plan in early 2020. She hired a woman who one day approached her mother on the street, introduced herself as a seer and said that soon her daughter would die. The «clairvoyant» took the elderly woman to her two accomplices, who, posing as a seer and saints, confirmed the words of the swindler and promised to save her daughter for a fee. The frightened woman told her daughter everything. She began to beg her mother to help her and pay the seers. The woman transferred 5 million reais (almost $1 million) to the scammers within 15 days. spiritual healing», the daughter began to isolate her mother from her acquaintances, housekeepers. She also sold some of the paintings to her mother, others were stolen by her accomplices. An elderly woman began to suspect something was wrong, but was intimidated by her daughter's accomplices, who lured another 4 million reais (almost 800 thousand dollars) from her with threats. In total, 725 million reais (143 million dollars) were stolen from the woman in jewelry, paintings and money. The daughter's accomplices were also arrested.
