In January of this year, Gleiton Carvalho was looking for a job. And he preferred ads that included the word ‘marketing’, because that was the area in which he had worked in Brazil, a country he left about nine months ago. He found the perfect offer on Olx, a platform commonly used to buy and sell products, and it was at that moment that he began his relationship with Pineal Marketing, which had been under investigation by the Brazilian police for a year. Last Monday, the Immigration and Borders Service (SEF) Four people related to this company were arrestedunder suspicion of embezzlement crimes, fraud electronic and commercial money laundering Is criminal association.
“They needed people with good arguments for direct sales. I applied and was selected for an interview,” he tells the Observer Gleiton, 34. The second half of January seemed then the beginning of a new stage, with the prospect of finding a new job. He left Lisbon by train, got off at the Paço de Arcos stop and went to the Torre Oeiras building for his interview. In that first contact he understood part of the scheme that had been set up in Pineal Marketing: “They showed how it worked, that came into contact with the Braziliansso that the Brazilians could make investments in the stock market, through companies like [norte-americana] Apple, or other companies in Europe”.
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Source: Observadora
