What is it? ‘matriarchal scheme’? How and to what extent can the case of Italians defrauded for the children they would have in Brazil? It’s a story that since the first complaints of the lawyer Nuncio Bevilacquaa victim who decided to come out in the open to escape the criminal scam, presents a disturbing context and possible sensational implications. Today, the Brazilian lawyer speaks to Adnkronos Edson RibeiroBevilacqua’s lawyer who is following the judicial developments of the case in Brazil and Italy.
Initially, he says, Bevilacqua “believed he was the victim of an Italian-Brazilian woman named Bárbara, whom he had met on an online platform (Preply.com, ed.) where (the same girl, ed.) claimed to be a teacher of technical and commercial Portuguese for foreigners.” Based on this premise, “after many months of long and complex defensive investigations (of verification, ed.) carried out by me together with one of my teams, we believe, based on the detailed documentation provided to us by Bevilacqua and everything he communicated to us, that we are at the center of a real fraudulent scheme that we will call, for simplicity, the matriarch scheme.”
What is the matriarchal pattern? “The girls co-opted by a sort of recruiters – (some) easily identifiable by the (Brazilian) public prosecutor – would be part of an organization, of a pseudo-religious nature, aimed at identifying, through web profiles, rich foreign men, mostly Italian, because they are considered, according to the investigation documents, the most (easily) deceived by Brazilian women, with the aim of defrauding them”.
What does the plan include? “The plan would consist of the insemination of the girls, co-opted, by a member of the organization, also Brazilian, named Álvaro – a man exalted by the members of the sect as an individual with extraordinary powers, capable of generating ‘supernatural’ children, referred to by the Organization as an ‘Angel’. Thus, after the insemination, possibly through a system of complicity and help from doctors, the inseminated girl (artificially, ed.) would have the task of making the unfortunate foreigner, who had an occasional sexual relationship (premeditated, ed.) with her, believe that the unborn child who would be born is the rich foreigner’s.”
What are the goals of the organization? Essentially two: “linking the girls to the criminal organization, since they would all be mothers of a child of the “Angel Álvaro” (if they were really children of the foreigner, the girls could, at a certain point, distance themselves from the organization); the sharing, with the girls, of the illicit proceeds of the fraud”.
What are the consequences for the victims? “If the victims did not pay, requesting documentation proving paternity, threats of false reports would be made, or even false police actions would be carried out to intimidate the victim (as also happened with Bevilacqua, ed.)”
How many people are involved in the organization? Ribeiro describes “a complex case, where we need to investigate the existence of the various types of members of the alleged organization. Black magic is the underlying theme of the entire case. We should also identify a professional midwife linked to the head of the organization, the so-called Matriarch. We must also identify all the girls who actively participate in the selection of the right person to blackmail, as well as the doctors or people linked to the health sector who would prepare the documentation proving paternity and, also, the professionals linked to the organization who would do everything for which the defrauded foreigner has no choice but to pay or submit to threats so that he is induced to pay something that is not due”.
What consequences can investigations have? “The Bevilacqua case, due to the difficulties encountered and the obstacles placed “at all levels” in Santa Catarina, if uncovered, could involve very important people in the region in question, as the Mother of the Saint, (the important sorceress ed.) Izabel de Oxum (questioned in the investigation ed.) told us. To date we have not excluded anything from our investigations, not even the concrete possibility of involvement or links of this alleged Organization with Italy.
What do you expect from the next judicial developments? “One thing is certain, we cannot be approximate. This investigation, which is very dangerous, will have to be very thorough because it involves many people: members of the organization and victims, most of whom would prefer silence, especially because they are married or subject to blackmail for various reasons. The alleged organization of this type, if unmasked, can and should also operate in other areas (criminal, ed.), committing other crimes. We are available to collaborate, both with the Public Prosecutor in Brazil and with the one in Italy. The important thing is that there is a desire to clarify and discover the truth, which is currently something completely unknown in the city of Tubarão”. (By Fabio Insenga)
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