He posed as the son of a famous Barcelona plastic surgeon and an investor in the Panama Papers. He is asked for 9 years and ten months in jail, the highest sentence he has faced
He had as many identities as women he managed to seduce online. she said her name was Alvaro, Pablo Angosto, Albert Planas… and, as he claimed on Tinder and Badoo, it was lawyer, businessman, stock investor and plastic surgeon. But actually, Albert Cavallethe young man from Barcelona convicted of fraud at least ten times, four of them with final sentences totaling 3 years and nine months in prisonis a “trickster” of women, of whom he “takes advantage” to “obtain economic benefits”, according to the prosecutor’s letter to which CASO ABIERTO, the investigation and events channel of Prensa Ibérica, has had access.
Five of these women sit him this Wednesday in the dock of the accused of the Court of Barcelona. Both the prosecution and the public prosecutor’s office ask for him nine years and ten months in prison, the highest sentence to date, for a continued crime of fraud, another of theft and two crimes of obstruction of justice.
blocked money
“I met him in May 2017 on Badoo. He introduced himself as a reputable surgeon, son of the owner of the Planas clinic in Barcelonaof cosmetic surgery. He told me that she had accounts in Panama and he made many trips to that country”. With this profile, “to appear solvent”, the so-called ‘love scammer’ managed to convince a Catalan girl, with whom he “began a false sentimental relationship”, to lend him €51,000according to the prosecutor’s brief.
Cavallé only used “the typical deceptions that are common in dating applications to get intimate with as many women as possible,” according to his lawyer.
Those months, the media reported on the scandal of ‘the papals of Panama’. Cavallé persuaded the woman that he was one of those affected, affirmed that “he had a large amount of money blocked in Panama” and needed cash.
“To give more credibility to his story,” the young man showed him an email with information from “a supposed private flight” that he was going to do to the Central American country. He promised that he would return the money as soon as the accounts were unblocked and even signed a document acknowledging the debt to her.
Luxury hotels
The woman, deceived, gave 51,000 euros to what she thought was her boyfriend. An amount that, apparently, was insufficient for Cavallé, because “taking advantage of his stay at the victim’s house, he also seized the VISA card and mother’s pin code of the complainant” and made purchases worth 3,496.51 euros, according to the prosecutor.
The lie of the Panama papers helped the scammer to get another woman, whom he met in June 2017 and invited to spend a few nights at the Hotel Barcelona Princess To appear solvency, he will give you 10,500 euros.
500 euro banknotes
At the same time that he allegedly defrauded these two women, Cavallé did the same with a third girl whom he met through the POF network of contacts and whom he snatched away. €1,803.48, maintains the Public Ministry. Before that other victim, he said his name was Albert Planas, he had andorran nationality and being “son of a family of millionaires”, owners of the aesthetic clinic.
The young Catalan “made her believe that I had a lot of 500 euro bills, but I couldn’t change them” and asked him for a thousand euros. When the woman gave it to him, Cavallé “showed him a screenshot of the supposed transfer that he said he had made with the refund”, but that he never made.
scrambled bag
A few days later, the woman discovered the deception. After having several meetings at her house with Cavallé, in the Barcelona neighborhood of Gracia, she missed 500 euros cash and found her scrambled bag, with your ID and credit card changed places. Then, she received an SMS on his mobile informing her that the Hotel BCN Montjuïc He had charged 303.48 euros to her account for the reservation of a room that she never enjoyed.
With the card of another woman, who knew him by the name of Álvaro, Cavallé paid 202.42 euros for a room in the Hotel Catalonia Paseo de Gracia on June 22, 2017. The reservation, made on Booking, was made in the name of a certain Pablo Angosto Pallares, the name with which he was baptized to conquer his next girl.
in irregular situation
The fifth woman who accuses him in this trial is a foreigner and was in an irregular situation in Spain when he met Cavallé on POF in November 2015. After several dates, the young man, who pretended to be a lawyerbeing the son of the owner of Clínica Planas and a director of a branch of La Caixa, “He made him believe that he had friends in the Ministry of Madrid and would solve his problems”.
The girl gave him 1,000 euros to open an account at her mother’s bank and another 2,000 euros to find him the Spanish NIF. Then, Cavallé blocked her on WhatsApp and she disappeared.
twenty women
As it has already done in other trials (almost twenty women have denounced it over the years), the young man, who accumulates at least four final convictions for fraud and it has been acquitted six other times, acknowledges having had relations with the five complainants, but denies having defrauded them. According to his lawyer’s brief, David Sans“Mr. Cavallé established a relationship with some of the complainants using the typical deceptions that are frequent in dating applications in order to get intimate with as many women as possible”.
After being denounced by his ex-girlfriends, Cavallé threatened one of them: “Every time I live closer to your house”
Cavallé assures that “during the development of those more or less stable relations, he obtained some delivery of money from them in an absolutely voluntary“.
“In jail, my friends are waiting for you”
The young man is also accused of two crimes of obstruction of justice because he threatened two of his ex-partners when they denounced him and tried to get them to withdraw the accusation against him: “Hahahahaha… cat… pim pam pim pan… you are a plague… and the judges don’t believe you… apart they have put him in a minor offense… (…). In jail my friends are waiting for you… You have nothing, no transfers, nothing, all word, etc “, she wrote by WhatsApp on November 24, 2018 to one of the girls.
A few days later, he appeared at the house of another woman, in Barcelona, waited for her at the door and told her: “Tomorrow I have your trial. The truth is, I did not expect you to denounce me. You could withdraw the complaint and I will pay you“. She refused and then Cavallé “changed his tune and warned her”: “Well, we’ll see each other, every time I live closer to your house”.