DORAL, Fla. – A Doral man is dealing with 4 first-degree criminal fees after police mentioned he took benefit of his elderly landlord, using the man’s checking account information to pay credit card expenses — and for a Lamborghini.
Police arrested Yaroslan Bartutis, 43, on Wednesday.
According to an arrest file, Bartutis were renting a unit on the Palm Gardens Condominiums, situated close to Northwest 114th Avenue and 74th Street, for 3 years. His deal with is now indexed as a place of dwelling in downtown Doral.
The elderly landlord lives in Venezuela, however had a South Florida-based realtor representing him, managing a number of of his flats, police mentioned.
The file states that the sufferer, who won hire by way of transfers to his Wells Fargo account, spotted some of Bartutis’ transactions have been going the other approach. Police mentioned the sufferer zeroed in on a number of suspicious transactions, together with cash despatched to Porsche and Lamborghini, all beneath Bartutis’ title.
Police mentioned an audit printed that Bartutis made just about $78,000 in payments using the sufferer’s checking account information. Besides automobiles and credit playing cards, they mentioned some of the cash went to the godmother of Bartutis’ kid, Edith Molina.
Molina is thought of as to be a co-defendant within the case, the file states; her title used to be no longer but indexed in Miami-Dade court docket information and it seems she had no longer but been arrested as of Thursday. Police mentioned the Lamborghini, which Bartutis has posted “several pictures” of on Instagram, is in Molina’s title.
Porsche Financial Services — which handles Lamborghini financing — these days has an open civil case in opposition to Molina in Miami-Dade County court docket for failing to make payments on the 2021 Lamborghini Urus, value roughly $250,000, in line with its lawsuit
According to a sale contract integrated within the lawsuit, Molina, dwelling in Cutler Bay, traded in a 2018 Ferrari 488 Spider for the SUV at Lamborghini Broward, situated at 4645 Volunteer Road in Davie.
The swimsuit states that Molina stopped making payments on the Lamborghini remaining June, owing greater than $117,000 plus hobby.
As for Bartutis and his legal case, police mentioned the Cuban nationwide spoke to detectives on Wednesday.
The arrest file states that he “admitted (to) having a Chase account, but said his account is from several years ago and stated he does not know anything about making personal payments to his accounts using the victim’s Wells Fargo account.”
Bartutis mentioned “that if there were payments made using the victim’s account information then it was done by mistake,” the file states, and “admitted (to) driving a green Lamborghini, which he stated was repossessed.”
He remained off the roads as of Thursday afternoon after being charged with elderly exploitation, arranged fraud, robbery from elderly and grand robbery.
A Miami-Dade pass judgement on gave Bartutis a $47,500 bond, in line with prison information. If he posts bond, he’ll must turn out the cash got here from a sound supply.
Copyright 2024 via – All rights reserved.