How much prison time are the british law students involved in the lockerz scam in brazil facing?”
Law students arrested in Brazil over fraud allegation Two law students have been arrested in Brazil after allegedly trying to defraud an insurance company by claiming they had been robbed. Published: 7:42AM BST 29 Jul 2009 Shanti Simone Andrews and Rebecca Claire Turner, who graduated from Sussex University in 2007, allegedly told police their belongings had been taken on a bus from the tourist resort of Foz do Iguacu to Rio de Janeiro. But it is claimed officers found their suitcases in lockers under their beds. They have spent three nights in a women’s jail on the outskirts of Rio and face up to five years in prison if convicted of fraud. The pair, both 23, are thought to have told police that around £1,000 worth of valuables were stolen. Sergio Ricardo da Rocha Pita, who is acting for the pair, put the girls’ arrests down to a misunderstanding. He told a Brazilian newspaper the pair had been robbed but had mistaken some of the items the women claimed were taken. A source close to th
The backpackers, who had been on a nine-month trip around the world, are accused of lying about a robbery in a £1,000-plus insurance scam a day before they were due to fly home. They were arrested on Sunday after telling police their belongings – including a £240 mobile phone, a £450 digital camera, £600 iPod and a £60 bag – had been stolen four days earlier on a bus from the resort of Foz do Iguacu to Rio de Janeiro. But officers were suspicious they had waited so long to report the crime and marched them to their hostel, where they are said to have discovered the items in suitcases in lockers under their beds. Prosecutors are expected to announce shortly what charges the girls will face. A judge will then decide if they should be released on bail or kept behind bars ahead of a trial. But their lawyer, Renato Tonini, said he hoped the young women would escape the charge of insurance fraud, for which they could face a five-year jail term. Read more:
