Albert Cavallé receives 664 euros per month thanks to the guaranteed income of citizenship. His defense assures that with that money he is paying 50 euros a month to two of the women he cheated on
Albert Cavallethe 41-year-old from Barcelona who has accumulated four firm convictions for posing as a surgeon, lawyer or stock investor to defraud women he caught on dating apps, receives financial aid from the Generalitat every month, according to what CASO ABIERTO, the investigation and events channel of Prensa Ibérica, has learned.
Known as the ‘love scammer’, accused of tricking around twenty women since 2010 into giving him money that he later spent on luxury hotels and prostitutesreceives 664 euros per month as a beneficiary of the guaranteed income of citizenship granted by the Department of Social Rights of the Catalan government. This is aid for people “who do not have the minimum financial resources to meet the basic necessities of a dignified life“, according to the website of the Generalitat.
The subsidy that Cavallé receives is intended for people “who do not have the minimum financial resources to meet the basic needs of a dignified life”
Cavalle’s lawyer, David Sans, confirms that the Barcelonan requested this public subsidy a year and a half ago, that the Catalan government granted it and “he has been collecting it since December 2, 2021 without interruption.” Cavallé meets all the requirements to be able to benefit from this income: he is over 23 years of age, he has been registered in Catalonia for more than two years, does not have a job or property.
Lives with his parents
The Catalan assures that his career as “model of advertising campaigns” was cut short because of his fame as a ‘love scammer’, a nickname with which the media baptized him after being denounced by some of his ex-partners. Since then, says his lawyer, “when he goes to a job interview they always recognize him and reject him”, which “has caused serious damage to Albert, who has been unemployed for years and has had to return to his parents’ house to live with them in Barcelona”.
His lawyer, David Sans, affirms that “when Albert goes to a job interview he is always recognized and rejected.” Cavallé has had to return to live with his parents
This situation led Cavallé to request the 664 euros from the Generalitat. His lawyer claims that he is using that money to compensate two of his victims and he has already paid a third girl whom he cheated: “These are two cases in which Albert is already convicted by final sentence. He pays 50 euro per month to each of those women until she meets the amount that the judges ordered her to pay: 2,500 euro to one of the complainants and €1,753 to the other”.
“I don’t have to eat”
One of those women, a girl from the neighborhood of saints the one he met via Badoo In August 2017, Cavallé managed to get 1,753 euros out of her by convincing her that “her credit cards had been stolen” and she needed cash “because I didn’t have to eat”. The Catalan is sentenced to two years in jail for this scam, a sentence that has already been confirmed by the Supreme Court.
Cavallé began by asking the girl to give him 300 euros, assuring her that later “he would make a transfer for that amount” and that “he was going to compensate her”. After she gave him the money, he showed the woman a receipt on her mobile phone of “an alleged transfer in her favor for those 300 euros and another 200 more, for which she trusted the veracity of she”.
Two purchases in Worten
A few hours later, the scammer got the victim to give him another 500 euros, in accordance with the sentence that convicted him. And that same night, “being at the defendant’s house and while she was sleeping, he took her credit card and DNI” and “with the card of this two purchases online, of 450 and 503 eurosin the Worten” establishment, dedicated to the sale of electronic products.
Cavallé is also indemnifying 50 euros each month to another woman whom he scammed 2,500 euros in March 2016 with the same modus operandi: he met her through Badoo and, when they met, he told her that “he was a stock investor and his father too and that he had a very slave job. He dressed very well, I went to his house and the building seemed perfect to me and the apartment too. He asked me for money and I gave him 1,500 euros the day we had dinner together and, the next day, 1,000 more euros. He told me that he would have very high benefits within four days, but that was not the case,” the victim explained to the judge, who finally sentenced him to six months in prison.
He has not entered prison
Despite his convictions, Cavallé has never set foot in jail. His lawyer has obtained, in addition to that he be acquitted of six charges of fraud and? archive three other proceduressuspend all the sentences that different judges have been imposing so far.
In return, your client has agreed to repair the damage caused to the women that he cheated, a possibility that the law contemplates and that allows the convicted person to compensate his victims “according to his economic possibilities”. What for Cavallé translates into “50 euros per month” of the 664 euros of subsidy that he receives from the Generalitat.