Police arrest man suspected of stealing £30,000 from Neymar in fraud scandal

POLICE have arrested a person suspected of stealing £30,000 from Neymar.

The 20-year-old has been held within the Brazilian metropolis of Sao Paulo on suspicion of focusing on the ahead and different celebrities by way of fraudulent immediate financial institution transfers identified in Neymar’s homeland as PIX.

Police say greater than £30,000 was taken from the Paris Saint-Germain star in small quantities throughout totally different on-line transactions, though the account focused is believed to be managed by Neymar’s dad.

Sao Paulo chief Fabio Pinheiro Lopes informed native media: “He used the log-in of a colleague and allegedly started to steal small quantities of cash from the accounts of well-known individuals with excessive buying energy.

“These individuals didn’t realise in any respect. He did one for £1,400, one other for £2,800 and afterwards £7,000.

“Neymar’s case has a peculiarity as a result of the one that transferred the cash was a financial institution employee, somebody who was employed by an outsourced agency employed by the financial institution.”

The monetary establishment has not been named.

Additional arrests haven’t been dominated out however the lacking money has already been returned.

Neymar, believed to receives a commission £26million per 12 months by PSG, has but to make any official remark.

Final 12 months it emerged a journey agent had cheated Cristiano Ronaldo out of almost £250,000.

The 53-year-old, named in Portugal as Maria Silva, additionally scammed the soccer star’s super-agent Jorge Mendes for greater than £14,000 and £1,500 from former Manchester United winger Nani.

Her wrongdoing culminated in her getting a four-year suspended jail sentence at a courtroom in Porto.

Revered Portuguese every day Jornal de Noticias stated Ronaldo, 37, was spared having to attend her trial after she made a full confession.

The previously-unreported scandal was laid naked by Jornal de Noticias in an expose about grasping Silva’s breach of the belief Ronaldo positioned in her by giving her his bank card particulars and pin codes.

The newspaper stated the £245,770 he misplaced corresponded to round 200 journeys he by no means made between Portugal and different European international locations in addition to Europe and Africa and the US.

Silva reportedly carried out the fraud by getting shoppers to switch money for journey she organized for them to her private account as an alternative of the enterprise account of the journey company she labored for.

She then billed these journeys to the accounts of victims like Cristiano Ronaldo, who had given her a ‘digital’ bank card and pin code, to ‘fill the outlet’ in her firm’s accounts,

She used the identical tactic to tear off the likes of Jorge Mendes and his sports activities company Gestifute for £36,000 and former Portsmouth and Everton footballer Manuel Fernandes for £2,440.