Cristiano Ronaldo Scammed Of £250,000 By Travel Agent

A journey agent, named Maria Silvia scammed Manchester United striker, Cristiano Ronaldo, out of £250,000 (about N140 million) after the soccer star entrusted her along with his bank cards and pin.

The 53-year-old journey agent additionally scammed Ronaldo’s super-agent Jorge Mendes of £14,000 and Manchester United winger, Nani, of over £1,500.

On account of her wrongdoing, Silvia received a four-year suspended jail sentence on Sunday after being earlier convicted by a Porto felony court docket in 2017, Solar Sports activities reported.

It was additionally revealed that Ronaldo was focused as a victim of Silvia’s scamming spree for 3 years between February 2007 and July 2010.

Quoting a famend Portuguese newspaper Jornal de Noticias, Solar Sports activities reported that the 36-year-old Ronaldo submitted an announcement to the police in 2011.

The paper learn, “The journey agent needed to plug the outlet within the agency’s accounts. She, due to this fact, started to invoice these journeys to Cristiano Ronaldo, who had an account at Geostar and for sensible causes, handed the agent a digital bank card and pin code. It was a inexperienced path to taking cash out.”

In accordance with the newspaper, the £245,770 scammed from Ronaldo corresponded with round 200 journeys that he by no means made between Portugal to the US, Africa, and different European nations.

The journey agent, who at the moment works as a cleaner, was first interrogated in 2013 earlier than her eventual sentence on Sunday, September 19, 2021.

As a part of her court docket deal, she had agreed to repay her agency a sum of £7,680 sparing her jail sentence.