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ser laranja

Portugués

Significado

Ser un testaferro, prestar el nombre para actividades ilegales o fraudulentas

Ejemplo

Descobriram que ele era laranja de um esquema de corrupção.

Descubrieron que él era testaferro de un esquema de corrupción.

Origen

The origin of laranja ("orange") as slang for a fraud proxy is genuinely disputed — linguists say pinning it down with certainty is close to impossible. The leading theories: a 1970s pyramid scheme among political prisoners, where a "limão" ("lemon") recruited unwitting "laranjas" who rarely saw their money again; police slang for suspects who gave up accomplices once pressured; and a rumored 1980s scandal involving orange growers used as fronts in a bank fraud.