Two people have been taken into custody in Alicante by agents of the National Police, a man and a woman, for diverting more than 88,000 euros from a neighborhood community and for handling a large amount of documents from ten other communities. The arrests followed a case built on a growing trail of concerns about irregular management within property administrations in the city.
The investigation began after a registered representative of an Alicante community filed a report alleging that the person who previously acted as the property administrator could not be reached by residents. The administrator held all the community documents and appeared to have vanished from view, with suspicions that funds had been diverted from the community bank account to third-party accounts. This preliminary information came from police sources.
Days later, a second complaint was lodged by the president of another Alicante community. She reported that the property management firm hired by her association had disappeared with all the documentary records and that money from the account might have been withdrawn or transferred to other accounts. The president suspected a voluntary disappearance as a possible motive behind the loss of contact with the administrator.
In response to these events, the National Police officers assigned to the Judicial Police Operations Group of the Central District Station in Alicante opened a formal investigation into both complaints. It turned out that the same woman acted as administrator for both communities. She was 47 years old and of Spanish nationality, a connection that linked the two cases in the early stages of the inquiry.
According to information obtained through police sources, investigators soon expanded the scope, correlating the two complaints with a total of eight further inquiries. They established that the lead suspect had transferred about 43,000 euros from one community’s bank account into the account of the management company where she worked as administrator, using 98 separate transfers. The account in question listed another man as a co-owner, who was aware that the money had been deposited there and accepted the transfers with full knowledge of their nature.
In addition, investigators found evidence of another 80 transfers totaling nearly 16,400 euros to the same account that listed both suspects as holders, and 15 transfers amounting to 3,275 euros to a third account also showing both individuals as account holders. The suspect also kept extensive paperwork for the various communities, which helped explain why several of the representatives had filed complaints in the first place.
Further inquiry revealed that some funds withdrawn from one community’s account were subsequently redirected to another community’s account. When agents contacted the administrator of that third community, he disclosed that the previous administrator had misappropriated funds but ultimately did not pursue charges because the money was later returned via a transfer, a detail confirmed by the ongoing investigation.
Casual findings indicated that several transfers were designed to move money from the accounts of some communities to others controlled by the same pair of suspects in an attempt to avoid detection. The evolving case finally allowed officials to identify both defendants clearly, revealing a man and a woman aged 52 and 47, both Spanish nationals, who were subsequently detained on suspicion of misappropriation. The police recovered substantial documentation from multiple communities governed by the detained administrator, including ten books of minutes that were returned to the presidents of the respective communities. All actions were placed under the oversight of the examining court in Alicante as a matter of precaution and standard procedure.
This incident underscores the importance of rigorous oversight in property management, especially when personal documents and financial records are involved. It also illustrates how investigators connect disparate complaints to uncover a broader pattern of behavior, ensuring that residents can reclaim documents and financial records while pursuing accountability in the relevant judicial channels.