The Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court (TS) has assigned the courts of Arona in the south of Tenerife, to investigate an alleged fraud of 345,000 euros, which corresponds to transfers made by a person living in Germany to a fictitious real estate company for a property transaction.
In total, 22 transfers were made, two of which were sent to bank accounts in Salou, in Tarragona, and the other twenty to accounts in banks registered in the south of Tenerife that appear in the name of a single person.
The alleged perpetrator of the scam claimed he was in charge of a real estate company that has its headquarters in Valencia, web pages with traces in Panama and India, and some telephones, with numbers with Valencia prefixes but that according to the investigation, were virtually generated.
Until now, it hasn’t been possible to identify and document the accounts in which these transfers were received, which correspond to another person who resides in Costa Adeje, in the south of Tenerife. But the police proceedings aimed at locating the companies, both in the Mercantile Registry and in the supposed headquarters of Valencia, have not yielded any results.
For this reason, the Valencian court agreed to pass the case to the number one court of Instruction in Arona, which has been assigned it because the TS believes that the police investigation may have a greater chance of success.
The investigation has now started under the instruction of the courts based in Los Cristianos, who will now look into the four different banking entities that the German victim made most of the transfers to, to prove the crime of fraud against the supposed fake estate agent.
