The National Police arrested a man in Benidorm real estate developerof Spanish nationality and aged 52, as alleged perpetrator of the crimes of fraud and falsification of documents, having received a total of 161,000 euros for the purchase of two houses off plan of a building that was going to be built in the town of Finestrat, in Alicante, without a building permit.
The events were brought to the attention of the National Police by the buyers of two homes located in a building that was going to be built in the town of Finestrat, for which they paid a total of 161,000 euros.
This work consisted of the execution of 24 housing units, for which a major building permit was granted at the end of 2019 to the housing developer, including the company of which the arrested man was a director, with supporting documentation included among the documents provided by the promoter. payment of town planning fees in the amount of 72,958.20 euros.
The victims paid the developer a total of 161,000 euros for the purchase of two off-plan homes, with an expected delivery date of April 2021. Officers from the Benidorm police station in charge of the case collected data and reports from the planning department of the municipal council which granted the permit and where the houses were to be built.
According to the department, once the work began, there were problems during its execution which caused inconvenience to neighbors and occupation of public roads, without specific municipal authorization. Then, they examined the documentation presented by the developer for the license application, detecting certain irregularities in the payments and guarantees for said works.
Despite the existence of proof of payment of fees among the documentation presented, for the amount of 72,958.20 euros for the license application,This sum was never paid into municipal coffers..
It is for this reason that he was ordered stoppage of work Initiate the opening of an urban administrative offense file to initiate the expiration of the license, failing to comply with the requirements established for granting the license.
Consequently, since it was an invalid permit, it was understood that the works had started without the protection of any authorization, the town hall concluding that, although it had the planning permission required for the major works, the housing developer did not have the conditions for its effectiveness to be met.
Finally, according to the report issued by the town hall and given that the promoter’s administrator had provided proof of bank deposit for the allegedly false fees, for an amount of 72,958.20 euros, is added to the fact reported by the victims , from whom testimonies were collected according to which he had received from them a total of 161,000 euros for certain houses which They had never been builtthe agents in charge of the case, located and arrested the administrator of the promoter as the alleged author of the crimes of falsification of documents and fraud, sending everything that happened to the Court of Instruction of the city of Benidorm.
