The Provincial Court of Las Palmas has rejected the appeal filed by the owner of the Stratvs winery and has endorsed the measure adopted by the Court of Instruction Number 5 of Arrecife, which last December ordered the winery to be closed as a precautionary measure, within the criminal investigation that it is conducting into the construction and commissioning of this facility.
The hearing to resolve the Stratvs appeal was held on April 30 and the court was scheduled to make a decision that same day, but it has finally taken more than three weeks to issue its decision, after analyzing a good part of the documentation in the case.
Thus, in a forceful order, the Court rejects the arguments put forward by Juan Francisco Rosa's lawyer, Felipe Fernández Camero, and stresses that the only damage caused by this precautionary measure is suffered by the owner of the winery, who placed himself outside the law from the moment he began construction of this facility.
Although the main trigger for adopting the precautionary measure of closure is the alleged emission of polluting discharges, the list of crimes being investigated goes far beyond that. Among other things, the property only had a license to rehabilitate a pre-existing protected building and to build a 900-meter warehouse, and instead of that, it demolished the building, built a new larger one and built a total of about 12,000 square meters, which include the winery, a restaurant and a store, among other things.
In addition, Judge Silvia Muñoz, whose closure order has now been supported by the Court, also stressed in her decision that Juan Francisco Rosa "has not justified to this day the slightest ownership of the registry property" on which the winery is located. In fact, a member of the Negrín family has appeared in the case as a plaintiff, since he claims to be the owner of a part of the land.