A 31-year-old model who drowned after partying on a yacht in Miami allegedly fled Brazil after being involved in a multimillion-dollar scam with her ex-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 that included attacking customers paying for products that were never delivered.
The network, which was dismantled in June 2020, sold electronics from cell phones to televisions that were retailed through a business called 123 Importados.
The company was registered under the name Felipe da Silva and made itself appear legitimate by registering customers who had actually received the items they had purchased and running advertisements on Brazilian television so that potential buyers could feel a sense of “security.”
Investigators would discover that more than 7,000 customers were tricked into paying for products that were never delivered.
Brazilian authorities alleged that the late model Adriana Vieria and her ex-husband were involved in multimillion-dollar scams involving customers who purchased electronics they never received and investors who were defrauded in a Ponzi scheme.
Brazilian model Adriana Vieria drowned in Miami on September 21 after jumping from the yacht rented by a famous rapper in Miami
On June 30, 2020, the São Paulo Civil Police obtained seven arrest warrants and detained da Silva in a mansion located on the outskirts of São Paulo.
Vieria and Tersário avoided capture by fleeing Brazil a year earlier, settling in Florida and often posting photos of their illicit wealth on social media.
The couple also reportedly owned several companies, including Bitcoin Investment, which was used to defraud clients in a Ponzi scheme that guaranteed investors profits of between 1 and 1.5 percent.
Authorities in Brazil contacted their counterparts in the United States, but Vieria and Tersário were never arrested.
DailyMail.com contacted the São Paulo Civil Police for comment.
Adriana Vieira shared a photo on her Instagram account of the yacht party she attended on September 21 before drowning while swimming with a group of partygoers.
Adriana Vieria’s body is still in a Miami morgue, her mother said in a recent interview
Vieria’s mother, Lourdes Vieira, knew something was wrong when she saw that she and her husband changed homes frequently.
“I just suspected that no one gets rich overnight, no one leads such a luxurious life overnight,” his mother told Brazilian media outlet Record TV.
Vieria, who was not fluent in English, began working odd jobs when money began to dry up before the marriage fractured and Tersário abandoned her and returned to Brazil.
To raise her son, Vieria began dancing in Miami nightclubs and dedicated herself to selling adult content on Onlyfans.
Lourdes Vieira is now working on the repatriation of the body of her daughter, who drowned after a party on the yacht of a famous rapper.
In 2019, Adriana Vieira and her ex-husband allegedly fled Brazil when authorities began investigating them for being one of two couples who planned the scam of more than 7,000 people who were sold electronic items at below-retail prices but never received them. .
The late Brazilian model Adriana Vieria worked odd jobs and sold adult content on Onlyfans
A police report indicated that Adriana Vieria had joined a group for a swim around 8:30 p.m. on September 21 before she was warned 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 p.m.
Lourdes Vieira said her daughter’s body is still in a Miami morgue and they are working to repatriate it to Brazil.
Currently, her grandson is in the care of a nanny that Adriana Vieria had hired. The boy’s father is currently working to obtain a visa to bring him home.