Former employee of Alexandre Pires is sentenced to 16 years for alleged deviation of $ 1.5 million

A former trusted employee of singer Alexandre Pires was sentenced to the first instance to more than 16 years in prison for the alleged deviation of $ 1.5 million of the singer’s accounts. The information is from the process sent to F5 by the Minas Gerais Court of Justice.

According to the action, Uiara Regina Cardoso Teixeira, former financial administrator of Pires and his wife, Sara, began to squander a luxury life that did not match the reality of the monthly salary she received, which was $ 4,000. With that, the artist suspected. Wanted, Pires declined to comment.

Uiara’s husband, Elcione Cassiano was also sentenced to six years in prison for money laundering, according to the lawsuit.

Both Uiara and Elcione have already filed an appeal on June 13, and now they are waiting for freedom to the 2nd instance. Both deny any crime.

The former administrator worked for more than five years with Pires and had access to the accounting office. She says she will prove her innocence in the process.

In the complaint offered by the Public Prosecution Service of Minas Gerais (MPMG) it states that the crimes of qualified theft and money laundering would have been committed between 2014 and 2018.

At the time, Uiara began to appear with luxury expensive and sporting a life out of her financial reality.

The Prosecutor’s Office states that she would have used the trust and unrestricted access to the accounts and documents of Pires and Sara to make financial movements that would result in the amount of $ 1.5 million for her personal account.