Anna Vicente, the biggest crook in Spainreturns to the bench to face a penalty of 9 years in prison. The Madrid public prosecutor’s office accuses the crook and his partner of the crime of fraud with the aggravating circumstance of multiple recidivism. Both are accused of defrauding more than 730,000 euros to several customers to whom he sold trips with fake tickets for the Motorcycle World Championship. The trial is scheduled to take place next Wednesday in section 16 of the Madrid Provincial Court.
In its indictment, the prosecution explains that in 2020 the defendants made their victims believe that their travel agency Aupa Travelerswas part of Globalia and had a turnover of several thousand euros. They also claimed to have deals with leading sports companies such as Dorna Sport SL, the company that organizes Moto GP championships around the world.
Once their trust was gained, the couple offered the victims prizes for the Motorcycle World Championship with cancellation insurance provided by Axa Seguros, in case they decided not to attend the events or were canceled for any reason. whatever. The injured parties agreed to buy them back for a total cost of more than 570,000 euros.
I didn’t return the money
After the trips to the championships were canceled, the accused deceived them again and demanded more money from the victims for the cancellation fees. He also asked them for personal income tax money to be able to pay them the compensation fiancee. All the plaintiffs paid the first costs, but none of them managed to recover the money from the cancellation compensation, according to the prosecution’s account.
The prosecution says that the defendants, still unhappy with the amount defrauded, went so far as to ask two injured parties to grant them a loan because they lacked liquidity, even “knowing that They had no intention of returning it.», and they thus received an additional 40,000 euros.
The biggest crook in Spain
The main accused, Ana Maria Vicente Ossetalready has a long list of dozens of convictions for fraud and other crimes, to the point that several clients of his companies have created a group on the social network Facebook in which they accuse him of “stealing money from thousands of families” and they demand justice. Her partner also has a criminal record.
This Catalan crook would have defrauded up to seven million euros by offering holiday packages. He pulled off some of his biggest scandals with companies such as Aupa Tourist Sites, Land, sea and air And Furious groupand its thousands of victims.
According to the victims, their way of acting included taking advantage of major sporting events such as MotoGP races, trips to the island of La Palma to visit volcanic areas or to Disneyland, although they also offered traditional vacation packages. In each of them he promised irresistible offers, but these were not honored or were canceled at the last minute. He simply didn’t book the trips and kept the money.
He boasted of political friendships
As in most cases the fraudster made agreements with the victims, she was accordingly sentenced to sentences which generally do not exceed two years in prison and therefore he avoided going to prison since they were suspended.
At the same time, she continued to attract more victims by posing as a major businesswoman in the tourism sector. He even had a stand at the FITUR tourism fair and peppered his profiles with photos with politicians and entrepreneurs. To dazzle his victims, the scammer went so far as to send himself flowers, pretending that they were sent by people with obvious economic or political power.