A man has been sentenced to half a year in prison for impersonating a immigration lawyer before an immigrant who cheated a thousand euros in Donostiaoffering him “legal assistance” and “carrying out the appropriate steps to regularize his administrative situation” in Spain.
The circumstance occurs that the defendant is a repeat offender, since June 14, 2019 He was sentenced by a court in Gandía (Valencia) for crimes of intrusion and fraud, among others, to two years and four months in prison whose compliance is still pending.
According to the ruling in the case, to which EFE has had access, the events that occurred in the Gipuzkoan capital took place between July 2020 and October 2021, when the defendant, “guided by the desire to falsely claim to be a lawyer”, pretended to be a lawyer in Donostia “carrying out legal advisory tasks” on immigration matters “without being duly registered”.
In this way, “guided by the spirit of obtaining a unjust enrichment“, he made contact with his victim “offering him legal assistance and taking appropriate steps to regularize his administrative situation” in our country.
For this, the man “showed himself” to the victim as if he were a “practicing lawyer” who would assume the tasks entrusted to him “for the definition of the best legal strategy to carry out” such as “collect documentation, register registrations and deregistrations of their employment situation in the social security system”, among others, in addition to offering “advice” on different matters.
As compensation for your services, The defendant asked the woman for a total of one thousand euros that she paid him “at different times”without the man ever carrying out “any procedure before the public administration aimed at complying” with the services that he was offered and without returning the amount received to the injured party either.
During the trial for these facts, the defendant acknowledged the facts and agreed with the sentence requested by the Prosecutor’s Officefor which he has now been sentenced to half a year in prison and to pay the victim the amount defrauded as the author of a crime of professional intrusion in media competition with a crime of fraud with the aggravating factor of recidivism and the mitigating factor of repairing the damage caused.
