The First Section of the Provincial Court of Las Palmas will try Lanzarote businessman Juan Francisco Rosa, two of his children and other members of his family at the end of this January for corporate crimes of embezzlement and document forgery. According to La Voz, Rosa will return to the dock on January 21.
On November 10, 2023, the lawyer of the Administration of Justice issued the appointment for between January 20 and February 6, 2025, but it will finally be held one day later than planned. It remains to be seen whether the trial will last for two weeks as planned or if there is any news.
This oral hearing will take place after the Court of Instruction number 2 of Arrecife, with Jerónimo Alonso as the head, ordered the opening of oral trial on November 23, 2021.
The aforementioned case began in 2017 after a complaint filed by the businessman's partners in the Fariones hotel, García Bravo e Hijos SL. According to the Prosecutor's Office's indictment, Juan Francisco Rosa acted as the material author of the investigated crimes, while the other five defendants "followed his instructions."
Therefore, the Public Prosecutor's Office requests a sentence of four years in prison for Juan Francisco Rosa, considering him the material author of two continuous corporate crimes and a continuous crime of forgery in a commercial document. Likewise, it asks for two years in prison for the rest of the defendants.
Meanwhile, the private prosecution, exercised by García Bravo e Hijos SL, adds the crime of embezzlement or, alternatively, that of unfair administration and asks for eleven years in prison for all the defendants.
The Public Prosecutor's Office argues that between at least 2004 and 2016, the defendants allegedly granted loans - undocumented - in favor of companies linked to the defendants and unrelated to the minority partner and the company's own activity. These loans ranged between 486,425.04 euros (2008) and 6,348,610.4 euros (2016).
When he requested the start of the oral trial, Judge Jerónimo Alonso demanded a bond of 57 million euros from Juan Francisco Rosa and his two children Raquel and Andrés Rosa Caraballo. In addition, the defendants Anselmo Rosa Perdomo and Rosa María Rosa Martín had to deposit almost 30 million euros each.
In the aforementioned writing, the Public Prosecutor's Office maintains that the defendants, “members of the same family, previously agreed and acting jointly following the instructions” of Juan Francisco Rosa, used the positions held by each one in different periods and acted “with a clear intention of favoring their personal interests, family and patrimonial and aware of the economic damage caused to the company and the minority partner of the same, the commercial entity García Bravo, S.L.”
