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A caregiver faces six years in prison after being accused of defrauding an elderly man of 150,000 euros and disinheriting his children

The Valencia prosecutor’s office maintains that the accused took advantage of the victim’s cognitive deterioration to deceive her with alleged health problems.

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The Provincial Court of Valencia is judging this week a women accused of having “defrauded the old man she was looking after into giving her up to 150,000 euros and disinherited her children in order to designate her universal heir”.

According to information on the case provided by the High Court of Justice of the Valencian Community (TSJCV), the woman worked as a caregiver and housekeeper at the home of the 87-year-old man, from 2017 to 2022, when he died.

According to the same official sourcesThe public prosecution maintains that during those years, “the accused took advantage of the old man’s cognitive deterioration to deceive him with alleged health problems and make him give up to 130,000 euros.”

The woman “allegedly subjected the victim to isolation from her personal and family environment and appropriated an additional 20,000 euros which she kept while the man received the alimony under the pretext of paying expenses.”

THE Prosecutor’s Office The accused is requesting a six-year prison sentence for the continuing crime of fraud at the trial scheduled for this Friday, September 27, before the second section of the Valencia court.


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