The Prosecutor's Office has requested that oral proceedings be opened against a real estate agent working in Lanzarote, for whom it is requesting 6 years in prison for a crime of misappropriation. According to the indictment, T.C.A. kept 67,032 euros that a client gave her to buy an apartment, without the sale being formalized or the money being returned to her.
The events occurred in May 2019 and after the victim's complaint, proceedings were opened in the Investigating Court Number 1 of Arrecife, which concluded the investigation seeing indications of a crime.
Now, the Prosecutor's Office has already presented its qualification brief, in which it relates that the accused, 56 years old and a native of the United Kingdom, published an advertisement on the website "myplaceinlanza.com", in which she offered the sale of an apartment in Órzola, with whose owner she had previously contacted. According to the Public Prosecutor's Office, from the beginning she had "the intention of obtaining an illicit patrimonial benefit."
After seeing the publication, a buyer contacted this real estate agent and "moved by said offer and trusting in it", on May 10, 2019, she made three bank transfers for a total amount of 67,032 euros. She transferred the money to the account number indicated by the accused, which corresponded to an account owned by her.
Three days later, the buyer granted the accused before a notary a special power to carry out all the procedures inherent to the purchase of the apartment, "without the accused at any time having any intention of perfecting the sale of said property or returning the amounts of money transferred by her, incorporating them into her assets, causing her the consequent economic grievance", the Prosecutor's Office maintains.
In his writing, the prosecutor Joaquín Bobillo qualifies the facts as a crime of misappropriation. In addition to the prison sentence, he asks for a fine of 5,400 euros for the accused, as well as the return to the victim of the 67,032 euros that she gave him.