Court orders freezing of $12.7 million from João de Deus’s accounts
As requested by Goiás prosecutors, a state court ordered the freezing of $12.7 million from the personal bank accounts of Goiás medium João Teixeira de Faria, better known as João de Deus.
In the motion, prosecutors request that $5 million be earmarked for compensating possible victims of João de Deus, who answer charges of sexually abusing women at his Casa Dom Inácio de Loyola, in the town of Abadiânia, Goiás. The remaining $7.6 million will go towards collective moral damage.
The psychic was arrested temporarily on Sunday (16), when he turned himself in to the authorities.
Also on Thursday (27), Judge Wilson Safatle Faiad, on duty during the court recess in Goiás, turned his temporary arrest—ruled over the illegal possession of five guns seized during the exercise of a search and seizure order at one of the medium’s addresses—into house arrest. The decision did not see João de Deus go free, as other temporary arrest ruling had been issued over the sexual crime accusations.
