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Money in the Bank

Portuguese paper: Miami Beach Money in the Bank heist was a cover

A tourist who tried to rob a Miami Beach bank last month was part of a bank fraud conspiracy in his country, a Portuguese newspaper reports.

The Portuguese tourist charged with trying to rob a bank in Miami Beach three weeks ago has a police record in his native country but apparently was tricked by three bank employees and a former associate who swindled him out of one million Euros -- about $1.3 million.

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According to the Lisbon daily Diario de Noticias, Paulo Almeida was sent to Miami with the intention he would be arrested and unable to be a witness in the case against the alleged swindlers in a Lisbon court at an upcoming trial.

''The money came from a mortgage on the slaughterhouse Almeida owned; however, [Allan] Sharif and the bank employees decided to split it among themselves,'' the newspaper said. The report originated in Fornos de Algodres, a village in Portugal where Almeida lived.

BY RUI FERREIRA El Nuevo Herald found at miamiherald.com April 18, 2007

Almeida, 45, is in a cell in Miami federal prison waiting for a court hearing that still has not been scheduled. He was arrested March 29 at the Commercial Bank on 43rd Street in Miami Beach.

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Almeida entered the bank at mid-morning on that day and, according to the charges, handed a cellphone to a teller and asked her to talk to someone on the line. An unidentified male voice told the teller that she should place $20,000 in Almeida's briefcase, saying ``this is a holdup.''

The teller asked Almeida to sit on a nearby sofa while she collected the money. Minutes later, the police showed up and arrested him.

After an initial investigation, the Federal Bureau of Investigation identified the voice on the phone as that of Allan Sharif, 27, born in the United States to an Arabic father and a Portuguese mother. He is sought by New York State authorities for fraud.

Sharif moved to Portugal in 2002 after fleeing from the police. Since then, he has lived in the village of Torre de Tavares, next to Almeida's birthplace. The two struck up a friendship, Diario de Noticias said.

SWINDLED BY Money FRIENDS

Apparently, Almeida was deep in debt and needed a bank loan to prevent the shutdown of his slaughterhouse. However, ''he never received that money, and his lifestyle as a big spender sealed his fate,'' friend Antonio Paulo told the newspaper.

''It was easy for others to convince him to do something,'' Paulo said. So, ``he allowed himself to be tricked by Sharif and the bank manager, both of whom gave him some money.''

The bank was identified as the state-owned Caixa Geral de Depósitos, which sued Sharif and three bank employees because they kept the million Euro loan intended for Almeida.

''When the bank became aware of the swindle and began to investigate, the four men devised a way to keep [Almeida] from testifying against them in court,'' the newspaper said.

''Desperate over his indebtedness and being someone who is easily tricked, Almeida traveled to the United States after Sharif told him that he should pick up a sum of money held by a contact there,'' Paulo said.

The Lisbon newspaper learned that Almeida joined Sharif in the commission of some crimes and has a criminal record in Portugal for fraud and bodily assault.

The way the alleged swindle was perpetrated was simple: the bank managers approved credits in Almeida's name; he signed the papers but they kept the money.

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