The chef David Peregrina53 years old, and his wife, rica da Silva Santos38, were found dead in the restaurant they ran, The Ribeirinhos, in the town of Porto Seguro, on Ilha do Pau do Macaco (Brazil). A case that has crossed borders, and of which it has now been learned that the cook, of Mallorcan origin, had been convicted by the justice system in Mallorca more than a decade ago.
The cook was convicted of two judicial processes in Palma, and had been wanted and captured on two occasions. Judicial sources indicate The world what He had been punished in two criminal cases to more than six years in prison for the crimes of fraud, misappropriation and falsification of documents..
The search and capture orders prescribed
That’s when David Peregrina He escaped from justice, ending up in Brazil, where he has been living a new life. By not appearing in court he was declared search and capturebut The court orders expired because the events occurred more than a decade ago..
David Peregrina was one of the 28 accused in a scheme called phantom mortgages in which they sought to defraud the bank where the Mallorcan chef worked as a branch manager before devoting himself to cooking. They carried out their plan by setting up a network of false mortgage loans between 2003 and 2004, obtaining more than two million euros.
At that time, Peregrina was identified as the ringleader of the plot, spreading the word after he had escaped justice. Some sources managed to find his whereabouts, indicating that he was in Brazil, where he was recently murdered along with his wife.
The trial for the phantom mortgages took place in February 2012, but Peregrina was not even present. A trial in which the majority of the defendants were young people who agreed to sign these false mortgages for an amount around 1,000 euros. They were sentenced to lesser sentences.
Meanwhile, the chef was sentenced to three years and nine months in prison for this cause. A time that was later joined by others. 33 months in prison for another cause for crimes of misappropriation and document falsification.
