Since this Tuesday, given the high number of defendants, the judicial building of Caleta has been hosting the trial initiated by the First Section of the Provincial Court of Granada against a total of 23 defendants for allegedly having participated in operations in which they agreed to obtain loans. financing for the purchase of cars that were then resold by the two main defendants “making the amount of the sale their own and leaving” the credits unpaid “to the detriment of the financial institution”.
According to the provisional conclusions of the Prosecutor’s Office, which asks for sentences of up to four years in prison, these two defendants supposedly “by common agreement and with the intention of obtaining an illicit patrimonial benefit, created a structure to capture people with problems on the Internet of economic solvency.
They would have generated “for each subject agreed upon, mendacious documentation in order to appear solvent, aimed at circumventing the controls of financial entities and thereby obtaining the granting of loans for the acquisition of vehicles.”
Possible help from a seller
Thus, according to the prosecutor, “once the loans were granted and the vehicles were acquired, they were immediately sold by the two under investigation to third parties, endorsing the amount of the sale and leaving the loan granted for the acquisition unpaid to the detriment of the entity financial”.
To do this, they would have used a salesman from a dealership in Granada, also investigated, who allegedly “with full knowledge of the fraudulent action, processed the sales of vehicles, hiding from the financial institution the mendacity of the data provided for the granting of the loan” .
These three defendants face requests for sentences of four years in prison for each of them for the alleged commission of continued crimes of fraud in competition with others of falsehood in official and commercial documents.
They would have agreed in some cases with the other investigated, who face sentences of between two years and three months, and a year and a half in prison, also for the alleged commission of crimes of fraud and reception, in order to ” artificially create the documentation by which the solvency appeared”. The trial is scheduled in principle until next May 27.
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