Citizen Erico Petro contacted 24ora to file a report regarding a very distressing situation he is currently facing. This report is against Marco Antonio Donato, 35, who took advantage during the passing of his mother in Colombia.
While his mother was lying unresponsive in her hospital bed battling an aggressive cancer, Marco Antonio Donato placed the phone in front of his mother’s face to use the Face Scan ID, open the account and transfer money from his mother’s account to his own.
We are talking about a large sum of more than 200,000 florins. “He needs to be held accountable for what doesn’t belong to him.” The mother had the money saved to move to the Netherlands after selling their home, to live in the Netherlands and also help Petro with the medical care he needed. Unfortunately, the mother passed away.
Marco Antonio does not answer calls or messages, and it seems he plans to leave Aruba as well. Petro says Marco stated that his mother had a lot of debt of her own, but Petro asserts that this is not the case either. Apparently, the step son already received 25,000 florins from his mother before she passed away. He kept pleading with his mother to get more, which turned out to be more than 40,000 florins, which was his share, nothing more. However, Marco Antonio wanted more, so he went on a mission to get everything he could.
Petro is fighting to get what rightfully belongs to him; he doesn’t want to demand anything more than what legally belongs to him because he was married to his mother for more than 20 years. Apparently, Marco Antonio put all of his mother’s money into his account. “I am claiming what is rightfully mine.”
Petro went to the authorities, but they told him they couldn’t do anything because it’s a civil case. “There has to be something we can do, the Justice system should do its job because I am finding something beyond my control. Things can’t go like this. He needs to face it, he can’t hide behind the phone and say nothing, he’s gone into hiding. He stole and stayed calm; things can’t go like this, if you steal, you have to face the consequences.”
