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Three-Year Prison Term Confirmed for Exploiting Uncle as Wife’s Trial Opens Over Draining Husband’s Accounts

Judges are weighing medical testimony on cognitive decline to assess consent in two cases of alleged family financial abuse.

Sede del TSXG, en A Coruña.
La acusada, que presuntamente realizó dieciséis transferencias por importes de hasta 15.000 euros semanas después de ser diagnosticado, alega que las hizo su pareja porque "quería que el dinero fuera pa mí"
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Overview

  • The Superior Court of Galicia upheld a three-year sentence for a woman who persuaded her 86-year-old uncle with vascular cognitive impairment to name her as his agent before transferring all his savings and placing him in a nursing home.
  • The convicted woman must pay €43,020 in compensation to the victim’s son and still faces a possible appeal to the Supreme Court.
  • In Valencia, a 70-year-old woman stands trial accused of making 16 online transfers totaling about €150,000 from her husband’s accounts after he was diagnosed with an incurable brain tumor in mid-2019.
  • Prosecutors have requested a three-year prison sentence, arguing the husband lacked the capacity to consent to the transfers, while the defense maintains he approved the transactions.
  • Bank staff and medical experts testified that the victim had never conducted online banking and that his tumor caused rapid cognitive and physical decline, undermining his ability to authorize money movements independently.