The Granada Provincial Prosecutor’s Office has requested four years in prison and a 3,000-euro fine for a man accused of defrauding his cousin in the alleged joint opening of a restaurant in Malaga for which he sought a location after which he would have requested his family member, outside Spain, “the sending of money to start the procedures” for its acquisition and “its conditioning for the projected hotel business”.
In the Prosecutor’s provisional conclusions brief, it is stated that this cousin, “in that belief and in view of the cash requirement by the defendant”, would have made various transfers in his favor. Thus, on September 30, 2017, a first for 59,000 euros.
They followed him, another, on February 2, 2018, for 10,000 euros; one of 1,100 euros on March 28 of that same year; and a fourth of 430, on May 27, details the prosecutor. In this context, the defendant, supposedly “to avoid subsequent claims by the injured party, asked him to include the concept of the first home purchase in the transfers.”
In subsequent ones, he would have asked his cousin to record “family maintenance” with “the excuse of avoiding formal strictness from the Spanish authorities for the availability of cash.” The defendant would have rented but not acquired the premises.
“He only paid the first two monthly payments and the deposit, the owner having proceeded to exercise actions in the civil jurisdiction for eviction and claiming rent due, having incorporated the cash transferred by his cousin into his estate.”
It is expected that the facts will be prosecuted by the Second Section of the Provincial Court of Granada this coming April 19.
