The Civil Guard of Yaiza investigated on November 11 a 63-year-old man of foreign nationality, with a police record, as alleged perpetrator of a crime of misappropriation, for keeping money contributed by an international animal shelter, of which he was a delegate in Lanzarote. The investigated allegedly kept more than 50,000 euros from the association
The investigation began last October, following the complaint of a director of the same international protector, who traveled to Lanzarote from Switzerland to formalize the aforementioned appearance at the Civil Guard barracks in Yaiza.
According to the Benemérita, he informed the agents about his suspicions that the representative of his protector in the island of Lanzarote had appropriated different amounts of money contributed by the partners. These irregularities had led the aforementioned management to dismiss the suspect as a delegate on the island last June.
Acquisition of goods for private use
In the banking documentation analyzed, the agents of the Investigation Area of the Civil Guard of Yaiza observed how the delegate on the island had made several movements between bank accounts of the association and whose sole owner for being a resident in Spain was him, supposedly without the consent of the protector's management, also seeing the agents how he allegedly had acquired for his particular use certain goods, such as a house and two vehicles.
Based on these indications and other police investigations, the Civil Guard finally investigated the aforementioned island delegate as the alleged perpetrator of a crime of misappropriation, who has been placed at the disposal of the corresponding Arrecife duty court.