The Tax Agency is going to auction the former headquarters of Galerías Rosa, located in the Argana neighborhood, in the action unit where establishments such as Mercadona and Decathlon have been established in recent years. The auction will be held on January 31 at 10 a.m. at the Tax Agency Delegation in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Along with this property, others that have passed into the hands of this organization will be auctioned on the same day, usually due to debts incurred by companies and individuals with the Treasury.
In the case of the Galerías Rosa warehouse, it has a constructed area of 3,494.32 square meters and the starting price is 1.6 million euros. According to the announcement, it is a two-story industrial building above ground. The ground floor is used for storage and exhibition, with an archive area, bathroom and kitchen, and on the upper floor there are 4 offices, 4 bathrooms, an archive area and a light patio.
Currently, the company Galerías Rosa is listed as "extinct." Its last sole administrator was the company BTL Lanzarote, owned by Juan Francisco Rosa. This same businessman also appeared as manager and financial director when the company was dissolved in August 2014.
Absorbed in 2014 by another Rosa company
A few months before its dissolution, in June of that same year, Galerías Rosa had been absorbed by another Rosa company, Salmepa Sociedad Limitada, which is also administered by Bodegas Stratvs SL. The general meetings of Salmepa and Galerías Rosa approved the merger on June 3, 2014, "with the consequent dissolution without liquidation of the absorbed company and the transfer in block of all its social assets to the absorbing company." This was indicated in the announcement published then by Juan Francisco Rosa, as "natural person representative of Bodegas Stratvs Sociedad Limitada, sole administrator of the absorbing company, Salmepa Sociedad Limitada, and of the absorbed company, Galerías Rosa Sociedad Limitada".
Since the beginning of 2014, Galerías Rosa had already changed its registered office, moving to Puerto del Carmen, where Juan Francisco Rosa has the headquarters of other companies. It should be remembered that the businessman has practically no assets in his name, as highlighted by the Stratvs case, where the investigating judge had to order the lifting of the veil over his companies, after Rosa did not pay the bond of almost 900,000 euros that was imposed on him to be able to face the civil liability that is required of him in that procedure.
Thanks to this measure, which was the first time it was applied in the Canary Islands and which was created to prevent individuals from using companies as a "screen" to hide assets, it was possible to seize, among other things, a 200 square meter apartment on Serrano Street in Madrid, within the exclusive Salamanca neighborhood. The house was in the name of BTL Lanzarote, but the investigation concluded that it was actually a personal property of Rosa.