A former employee of a billion-dollar bank faces decades in prison after thousands of dollars disappeared from a 70-year-old patient’s bank account.
According to To the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Rhode Island, Carlos Bras, a former Santander Bank employee, drained more than $125,000 beginning on or about May of 2023 from the account of a 78-year-old client who was suffering from dementia.
To access and transfer the victim’s money, Bras secretly enabled online banking for the septuagenarian. Brass also “ordered checks to be sent to addresses he controlled, and obtained a debit card for personal use.”
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Rhode Island, Brass also initiated numerous transactions without the account holder’s consent or permission, “including transfers to his wife’s account, and multiple wire transfers to a bank account in Portugal.”
At the time, the 78-year-old Santander client, who was residing in an assisted living facility, had a guardian appointed by a Massachusetts court.
Brass, who has already pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated identity theft and mail fraud, will be sentenced to prison on September 15.
“(Bras) faces a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison for the mail fraud charge, and a consecutive mandatory sentence of two years in prison for the aggravated identity theft charge.”
Delaware-based Santander Bank is the 28th largest bank in the United States with just over $97 billion in domestic assets.
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