Because she pulled a good 232,000 euros from her ex-boyfriend's pocket in a one-year relationship, a 53-year-old was sentenced on Tuesday in Linz to two years for serious commercial fraud. The penalty is an additional penalty to a conviction after similar offenses – previously she had taken almost 50,000 euros from a man with the same scam and received it for one and a half years in the previous year on a partially conditional basis. The judgment is final.
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The now 53-year-old had told her boyfriend that she was significantly younger than what is stated in her passport. As he said, she explained that with her flight from Vietnam. The native Vietnamese, who is now Austrian, repeatedly pulled large sums of money out of the entrepreneur's pocket. The reasons ranged from debts to electricity bills, various emergencies to money for repairs to her mother's house in Vietnam, an operation for the mother in China and finally later for the funeral of the mother in Vietnam, of which she is said to have shown her boyfriend . By the way, the mother is still alive and lives in Linz. In total, the amount of money was 232,000 euros. At the end of the relationship, the woman is said to have fooled the man with a mother-child passport and an ultrasound image that she was pregnant and demanded 25,000 euros in order not to have an abortion, according to the prosecution.
In court, the former prostitute largely confessed. The woman claims, however, that she was blackmailed by her former Czech pimp. Since leaving the milieu in 2016, he has repeatedly asked for money from her. She was afraid that he would do something to her son. She herself was raped by a group of men around the pimp after her exit and saw another girl murdered, she claimed. She did not tell her boyfriend because she was afraid he would call in the police.
Said pimp also got her the ultrasound image and the mother-child passport for the pretended pregnancy, the woman said. The judge wondered where a Czech crook got an Austrian mother-child passport from, and also said: “This is the first blackmailer to blackmail someone who is bankrupt.” Because the defendant went into personal bankruptcy two months before the alleged extortion began, which she declared in court with debts for furniture and apartments. The injured ex-boyfriend, however, suspects that she may have gambled away money. Because he last had a GPS installed in her car and she drove to a casino in the Czech Republic at least twice – after she had borrowed money from him, he told the court. The woman denied gambling, claiming she met the pimp in the gambling hall parking lot. What actually happened to all the money is unclear, because the woman is said to have lived rather modestly.
The accused has a relevant criminal record and a conditional one and a half year sentence, which the current judgment has taken into account. The two previous cases involved crimes similar to those in the current trial; she had taken almost 50,000 euros from her previous victim. The prosecutor's conclusion: “The defendant simply needs to sit down once,” she demanded an unconditional prison sentence.
The court did not believe the story of the alleged pimp. The jury found the woman guilty and sentenced her to 24 months of unconditional imprisonment and the repayment of 232,060 euros to the victim. How much of the previously postponed sentence of one and a half years, partly due to the earlier sentence, she will have to serve is still open. The confession was rated as mitigating, as aggravating a relevant condemnation and the high conviction. The woman had “lured three men out of money until it was no longer possible,” the judge said in the reasoning. Both sides waived legal remedies, so the judgment is final.
