More than five years in prison requested for forging a bank guarantee to lease a hotel in Lanzarote

The Prosecutor's Office points to the accused for delivering an "entirely false" document as a guarantee that she could pay 346,680 euros in case of non-compliance with the monthly payments of the hotel business rental

March 6 2025 (10:30 WET)
Hotel Diamar. Photo: Michael Valdivia.
Hotel Diamar. Photo: Michael Valdivia.

The First Section of the Provincial Court of Las Palmas will judge next Tuesday, March 11, in Gran Canaria, a defendant accused of allegedly forging a commercial document to get to rent the Hotel Diamar in Arrecife.

According to the indictment of the Prosecutor's Office, the events date back to July 2013, when the defendant M.P.O.R., as the sole administrator of the entity HTFG Canarias Group SCP, leased the Hotel Diamar in Arrecife, located on Avenida Fred Olsen, to the company Alessa Europa SL. In the lease agreement, it was stipulated that she had to pay 27,000 euros per month for five years and provide a bank guarantee worth twelve monthly payments.

The Public Prosecutor accuses her of using a guarantee of 346,680 euros "entirely false", which was allegedly "forged by the accused herself or by a third party at her request" and through which she was able to obtain the lease of the hotel establishment.

Thus, between September 2013 and February 2014, the accused exploited the hotel business allegedly "failing to pay numerous monthly payments" for a total of 119,388 euros, also leaving her "obligations with Social Security" and leaving a debt with the Treasury of 118,107 euros.

The Public Ministry states that the accused committed a crime of forgery in a commercial document and requests a prison sentence of five years and six months, with special disqualification for the right to passive suffrage during the term of the sentence and the payment of costs. In addition, she must compensate Alessa Europa SL for 237,495.7 euros.

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