Pedro mourato
Pedro Mourato will have obtained 500 million euros with fraudulent scheme. The Portuguese was arrested in Bangcoque, the capital of Thailand, on Thursday.
Pedro mourato He is 41 years old, a native of Lisbon and will be living in Thailand with his wife and four children since the early 2023.
According to (cm), the Portuguese citizen moved to Thailand, after being convicted in Portugal for a crime of falsifying documentscommitted in October 2017.
Now Pedro Mourato is suspected of being responsible for a megafraude with cryptocurrencies and credit cards that will have valid profits from 500 million euros.
According to the Thai authorities, the Portuguese will have already made the money that has extracted from Bank accounts in its name that are based in Switzerland.
According to the morning, the Portuguese will have entered Thailand with a tourist visa, which, however, lost its validity. However, Pedro Mourato remained in that country, accompanied by his family.
Without legal documents in Thailand, the suspect would be using a fake Swiss passport when he was arrested.
The Portuguese was arrested after being recognized on the streets of the Thai capital by a compatriot, which warned local authorities. After five hours of searching, Pedro Mourato was intercepted and detained in a Bangkok luxury shopping center.
The suspect remains detained and, according to local press cited by CM, will be Placed on the “Black List” of Thailand. It should be extradited to Portugal to serve the sentence to which it was convicted two years ago.
Pedro Mourato will have made victims in several European and Asian countries.
