Overview

• Police alongside mental-health specialists intervened on July 7 after a former school headmistress nun was found confined without authorization in an unlicensed nursing home.
• Despite her Alzheimer’s diagnosis, experts concluded she did not require institutional care.
• Security footage together with banking records revealed her niece as the person who emptied the nun’s accounts before arranging a loan with the stolen cards.
• The niece has been detained on charges of unlawful deprivation of liberty followed by fraud pending her formal indictment.
• Prosecutors have requested detailed financial records during a probe of a curatorship petition to assess potential involvement of other relatives.