A 31-year-old model who drowned after partying on a yacht in Miami allegedly fled Brazil after being involved in a multi-million-dollar scam with her former husband, according to Brazilian authorities
Adriana Vieria, whose body was found floating near Key Biscayne on September 21, and her husband, Roberto Tersário, were among two couples who masterminded the plot which included targeting customers who paid for products that were never delivered.
The ring, which was dismantled in June 2020, hawked electronic products, ranging from cell phones to televisions that were sold below retail through a business named 123 Importados.
The company was registered under the name of Felipe da Silva and it was made to appear legit by recording customers who had actually received the items that had been purchased and ran ads on Brazilian television so that prospective buyers could have a sense of ‘security.’
More than 7,000 customers were conned into paying for products that were never delivered, investigators would learn.
On June 30, 2020, the São Paulo Civil Police obtained seven arrest warrants and apprehended da Silva in a mansion located in the outskirts São Paulo.
Vieria and Tersário avoided capture by fleeing Brazil a year earlier, settling in Florida and often posting photos of their illicit riches on social media.
The couple reportedly also owned several companies, including Bitcoin Investment, which was used to scam clients in a Ponzi scheme which guaranteed investors gains between 1 percent to 1.5 percent.
Authorities in Brazil reached out to their counterparts in the United States, but Vieria and Tersário somehow were never apprehended.
DailyMail.com reached out to the São Paulo Civil Police for comment.
Vieria’s mother, Lourdes Vieira, knew something was off when she saw that she and her husband were often changing homes.
‘I just suspected because no one get rich overnight, no one leads such a luxurious life overnight,’ her mother told Brazilian news outlet Record TV.
Vieria, who was not fluent in English, began working odd jobs as the money began to run dry before the marriage was fractured and Tersário abandoned her and returned to Brazil.
To raise her son, Vieria began dancing at Miami nightclubs and turned to selling adult content on OnlyFans.
Lourdes Vieira is now working on repatriating the body of her daughter, who drowned after partying on the yacht of a famous rapper.
A police report indicated Adriana Vieria’s had joined a group for a swim around 8:30 pm on September 21 before they warned her to return to the boat due to the presence of a jellyfish.
The young woman remained in the water and was located floating 10 minutes later near Biscayne Bay. She was rushed to a local hospital and pronounced dead at 9:30 pm.
Lourdes Vieira said her daughter’s body is still at a Miami morgue and that they are working on repatriating it back to Brazil.
Her grandson is currently being cared for by a babysitter that Adriana Vieria had hired. The boy’s father is currently working on obtaining a visa to take him home.
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