The hearing held this Tuesday to try to reach an agreement to avoid the trial of the Catastro case has ended without an agreement, so the Las Palmas Court will end up judging this case, although no dates have been set for it.
As detailed to Efe by one of the lawyers for the private prosecution, the defense of one of the three defendants, residing in Fuerteventura, has raised to the court the impossibility of his client being able to travel to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria to appear before the hearing, although he has assured that it was impossible to reach an agreement.
The Las Palmas Court will judge three people for whom the Prosecutor's Office is requesting sentences of up to thirteen years in prison, accused of having tried to appropriate 141 properties in Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, and Fuerteventura by falsifying sales contracts and cadastral registrations.
The Public Ministry delves into its indictment that the three defendants - along with two others who have already died - between January 2011 and February 2016 acted together, by common agreement, to search for rustic properties on these islands to make illegal changes to their cadastral ownership registrations.
Three of them sought data among their acquaintances about real estate located in the province of Las Palmas, in this way they knew its location and ownership and also used the information that another of the defendants transmitted to them and to which he had access as a result of his professional activity in a management company in the capital of Gran Canaria.
Subsequently, they illicitly fabricated private documentation of sales contracts to present to the territorial management of the Cadastre of
Las Palmas in which the last of the accused worked who, in the exercise of said activity as a public official, managed to alter the cadastral ownership of registered properties.
With the consequent change in the cadastral ownership of the properties, they allegedly obtained economic emoluments that all of them, by common agreement, were introducing into the market, through the purchase of vehicles, luxury items, or real estate, giving an appearance of legality to the money obtained illegally.
After the hearing for a possible agreement was not held, the trial has been suspended 'sine die'.
