This Provincial Court settled in onescam on 100,000 Euros to Caixa Galicia committed Alicante decades ago with these words two months in prison for the three defendants and others four acquittalsaccording to the sentence this newspaper accessed.
On the bench sat the so-called members of a network dedicated to defrauding banks. using people without resources requesting a loan with falsified documents of your solvency. The money went to the accounts of the leaders of the network, On the other hand, the bank determined that it could not get the money back due to the bankruptcy of the applicants for the loan.
ringleader murder
The situation turns out to be the alleged ringleader of the gang, Jesús Fernández Utrera, was assassinated. He disappeared in 2008 and in 2011 his body was found in an abandoned house near Maigmó. Dozens of cases for similar crimes against different banking institutions and with the same working style and for that he never sat on the bench.
Civil Guard, the money used in these scams financing drug trafficking operations and that his friends killed him in a showdown. There was no trial for the crime.
unnecessary delays
three sentences, They admitted that they applied for the loan knowing they are using forged documents. The court has applied mitigation for unnecessary delaywhen evaluating it cause paralyzed for years. Prison sentences were replaced by fines or working for the benefit of society.
In other cases used by people by the organization, the predicted facts have been declared. Lawyer Laureano del Castillo He stated that the facts were determined at the beginning of the case and other defenses were added to this request. The court only accepted the statute of limitations for some cases and not for all.
Executives acquitted
Among those acquitted are a bank manager and one of the professionals who evaluated the loan application with false documents and were accused of collaborating with the organization. Also among those acquitted There are people who assure you that they are not claiming any credit and that someone is claiming it using their data..
The entity affected by this procedure was Nova Caixa Galicia, which formalized ten loans of EUR 108,931 between October 2007 and February 2018, the amount of which was never recovered. In all, the business received a loan request to purchase a car from a car dealer. San Vicente del Raspeig.
Attorney General’s Office it has no real activity and the cars are never bought. Money from the loan went directly to the network. Loan applicants were caught saying they were paid if they opened an account at that office. The group falsified working life and payroll documents to give the impression that the bank had financial solvency, knowing that it would not be able to collect. Some were drug addicts or homeless.
without collusion
Fault not considered tested of the two administrators accused of these events, The documents provided were manipulated, that they do not act in cooperation with third parties to open accounts or request loans. One of them was a bank manager and the other had a business dedicated to obtaining loans, and Utrera was one of his clients.
The Court notes that the bank manager was not recognized by any of the defendants and trial witnesses as a participant in the credit operations, therefore the chamber did not attain with sufficient certainty to be considered the author of the crimes against which he was accused. .
Although the bank’s internal audit concluded that the defendant did not comply with the rules of procedure because he did not verify the documents provided, the chamber he wasn’t the one who approved the loans and that someone in charge of the audit department should be called in to explain what the procedure is to follow and what irregularities have been detected. Moreover police He pointed this out in his reports. documents submitted can be considered as actual payslips and they had to be of sufficient quality for the bank to consider it good.