The County Court condemned three years in prison for Owner of a travel agency in Alicante already lost scammed something over 200,000 euros Defendant to 162 clients who paid for flights to the Americas and never paid the airlines, according to the judgment given by the First Section, pursuant to the contract accepted by the Attorney General, the prosecution and his defense counsel.
Defendant Juan Pablo MZ pleaded guilty in the trial after the consent agreement, and the requested initial seven-year sentence was reduced to three years. The court declared Agur Viajes, which was closed after the scandal, as subsidiary civil liability.
According to the proven facts contained in the decision, the owner of the agency Agur Viajes, located on José Gutiérrez Petén street in Alicante, processed travels between the Americas and Spain in his business. Most of his clients were Hispanic American people who went to the Agur agency to buy flights to travel to their country of origin.
The agency was operating normally until the summer of 2019 and began selling off its clients for flights they never enjoyed. The accused made flight ticket reservations and gave customers a document accrediting it. They paid the agreed amount, and although the owner of the travel agency assured them that the flights were already paid, the only certainty is, just made a reservation and no payment The scammers who never get the money coming into their accounts after the airlines that cut the tickets.
fraudulent intent
Sentence defendant, “with a clearly fraudulent purpose, the amounts in question were confiscated, resulting in economic damage to buyers. They could not travel because they did not have a flight ticket, they only made a pre-booking and it did not help the victims, the ticket was canceled without paying the price.
The scam ended in November when the victims confirmed that they did not have their plane tickets with them and that the owner did not have their plane tickets with them. arrested by the police after receiving a rain of complaints.
The court ruling highlights that the majority of those affected have low economic resources and that 162 victims of fraud have been identified. The amount defrauded and recognized by the accused was 200,409 euros.
About 5,000 Euros to the affected person
According to the list of victims included in the court decision, the defrauded sums paid by a woman for several plane tickets ranged from 300 to 4,462 euros.
When the scam was exposed, people flocked to the street where the agency was located for several days to find solutions to their serious problems. They came together to file a criminal complaint. Owner of Agur Viajes and complained of their troubled situation. Many of these people had been saving for over a year to be able to return to their home country over the Christmas holidays, and the scam left them unable to travel in Alicante.