The Provincial Court of Santa Cruz de Tenerife has hosted a trial in which the Prosecutor's Office agreed to reduce the request for imprisonment from 5 years to 3.5 years for a man accused of committing a scam in 2023 that consisted of renting an apartment that was not his.
However, it maintains that the defendant, currently in provisional prison, pay 690 euros, which corresponds to the amount unduly charged, and another 500 for moral damages.
The other defendant, who was then his partner, was acquitted of money laundering, for which they were asking for a year and a half in prison.
Specifically, she was accused of having received the two transfers in her current account, although she claimed that she was unaware of the origin of the money.
The man acknowledged the facts and admitted that he deceived the mother of a student who wanted to rent an apartment in La Laguna by responding to an advertisement in which accommodation was sought and asked for a deposit.
He also supported that his ex-girlfriend knew nothing of what was happening and that he used her account because his was blocked.
The complainant said that after making the deposit, when she went to the apartment, the supposed owner did not appear and other neighbors told her who it belonged to, then the accused never answered the phone again.
The accused has already been convicted twice for the same crime, while the young woman was accused of money laundering and they were demanding a year and three months in prison.
