The Second Section of the Provincial Court of Las Palmas is holding a trial this Tuesday against a man accused of defrauding an employee and his mother when he ran the jewelry and gold buying establishment located on Avenida Marítima in Arrecife.
AD worked as an employee in the store from the beginning of 2017 to October 2018. According to the Prosecutor's Office's indictment, his boss FC, taking advantage of the relationship of trust he had with his employee, proposed to the worker and his mother GB that they give him money to invest in the gold market, with the intention of enriching himself illicitly. Meanwhile, he promised them that he would return the amount delivered with interest of 2% per month. Under this agreement, the employee AD gave 6,500 euros to FC in January 2018, while his mother GB paid him up to 15,000 euros in three payments.
However, the accused did not return the amounts of money owed. The Public Prosecutor's Office argues that the head of the business gave AD and GB two promissory notes, without indicating the date and taker, for amounts of 5,000 and 6,500 euros, but the current account to which they were linked lacked funds to make the payment and was declared in a situation of default. He again delivered another promissory note for 5,000 euros in another account that had been closed since 2015. Both accounts were owned by the entity Grupo Canarios Arrecife SL.
Meanwhile, the accused FC made the monthly payments to which he had committed until September 2019, when he paid a total of 2,000 euros to his employee's mother GB and 18,001 to his employee AD. Likewise, when one of the debts was claimed, he paid 5,000 euros to GB. Between September 2019 and until July 15, 2020, when it was decided to continue with the judicial procedure, the accused did not pay any amount of money to those affected.
The Public Prosecutor's Office requests for the accused FC, of legal age and without a criminal record, two years in prison, with the accessory of special disqualification for passive suffrage during the time of the sentence and the payment of the costs of the trial for a crime of fraud. In addition to compensation for the victim AD in the amount of 4,700 euros and for GB another in the amount of 8,000 euros.