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      • post_date2017-02-23 11:58:17
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      • post_content<img class="alignright wp-image-1515" src="http://www.lawbird.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/OVP_spanish-property-scam_Sunday-Life-204x300.jpg" alt="OVP_spanish property scam_Sunday Life" width="245" height="361" />More than 1,000 buyers from the UK and Ireland lost £45m after Birmingham- based <strong>Ocean View Properties (OVP)</strong> was formally dissolved in 2009. OVP was the exclusive agent for the Manilva Gardens luxury holiday complex in Estepona on the Costa del Sol. It was behind successful overseas property enterprises, but ran into difficulties as UK agent for Spanish developer <strong>Ricardo Miranda Miret</strong>. A claim for fraud and misappropriation of funds was lodged in February 2011 in a bid to recover deposits paid by investors to OVP. It has more than 50 Northern Irish investors among 120 claimants for £9.2m. A second class action complaint for £2m, brought by 30 British and Irish investors, was filed in 2013. Many Northern Irish investors remortgaged homes to finance their dream luxury buys. One local investor was Armagh ex-teacher Ollie Reel, who now works for a firm helping investors to recover their lost money. Mr Reel and his three brothers sank thousands of pounds into the deal, but have managed to get some of it back. “It started in 2006 and through a few good friends, mainly in GAA circles, they invested in Spain and I was persuaded at that time it could be good for me as well and I couldn’t lose out,” he told an Irish radio station. “The economy was booming and everyone was going mad buying property, like everyone else I got caught up in the euphoria of it all. “If only I had known what was ahead of me, I would never have considered it. “The investment I was involved in was in Estepona in Spain and there was about 100 of us on both sides of the border, I suppose we lost a combined €12m. “These apartments were all fully furnished, they were very good at advertising it, they flew groups of us down to Spain and we stood on the actual site and we were all taken in by owning a new property in Spain.” He added: “The company went bust and it was down to the fact that the developer who was building our property hadn’t even got a building licence.” Mr Reel explained that after going through Spanish lawyers, he eventually was able to recover around half of his £145,000 deposit through a group called the Claims Bureau. He now works as a consultant for the group. The Madrid High Court probe has been beset by delays and setbacks. An investigating judge was replaced after he was found to have family ties to Mr Miranda Miret. In the latest twist, the developer is accused of submitting forged documents in the criminal action. A spokesman for Marbella- based legal firm <strong>Lawbird</strong> said: “By using these documents, supposedly signed by the secretary of Ocean View in Spain, the developer tried to prove that they had formally notified the estate agent that it was not possible to continue selling apartments as no licences were in place and they didn’t own the land where the development was to be built.” Final witness statements for OVP are to be given on Wednesday. Following these submissions, the judge will decide if the case should proceed to trial. Mr Miranda Miret and others accused have all strongly denied any wrongdoing. Former Aston Villa captain Gareth Barry and BBC’s Homes Under The Hammer star Martin Roberts, who starred on I’m a Celebrity, were among those duped into marketing luxury off-plan apartments for the firm, though neither benefited in any way, or had any knowledge of the alleged irregularities. <a href="http://www.lawbird.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/OVP_spanish-property-scam_Sunday-Life.pdf">Original print (PDF ~ 4Mb)</a>
      • post_titleAlleged Spanish scammer accused over documents
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      • post_excerptA SPANISH developer alleged to have scammed over 50 Northern Irish investors in a multi-million pound property deal has been accused of forging documents
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      • post_date2016-11-11 14:03:53
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      • post_content<img class="" src="http://e01-elmundo.uecdn.es/assets/multimedia/imagenes/2016/01/07/14521566813907.jpg" width="392" height="241" /> (Photo: <a href="http://lorenzofotografo.com/">M. Lorenzo</a>) A Court in Madrid has awarded 6 off-plan property buyers a grand total of circa <strong>four hundred thousand Euros</strong>, inclusive of interest, as a result of a bank guarantee claim filed against BBVA bank, the second largest in Spain. The Court found against the bank as a result of the existence of a collective bank guarantee issued by the bank, despite no individual guarantees being available for each investor. On this occasion, it was not necessary to invoke the Supreme court case law as the merits for winning the case had been already established by previous Appeal Court rulings.
      • post_titleMadrid Court orders BBVA bank to pay €400,000 to El Pinet Buyers
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      • post_date2014-07-22 10:26:27
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      • post_content<a href="http://www.legal500.com/firms/17026-lawbird-legal-services-spl/offices/22694-malaga/profile"><img class="alignright wp-image-1440 size-full" src="http://www.lawbird.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/legal-500.png" alt="legal-500" width="200" height="206" /></a>We are happy to announce that <strong>Lawbird</strong> has joined the Legal 500 index, following an invitation we have received from their staff. <a href="http://www.legal500.com/">Legal 500</a> is the world's leading legal referral site. It offers the definitive judgement of law firm capabilities.  We are proud that the Legal 500 recognises Lawbird as a firm worth recommending in Málaga. <ul> <li><a title="Lawbird in The Legal 500" href="http://www.legal500.com/firms/17026-lawbird-legal-services-spl/offices/22694-malaga/profile">Lawbird listing for 2014</a></li> </ul>
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      • post_date2014-06-09 20:52:56
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      • post_content<p style="text-align: justify;">The Malaga Mercantile Court 1 Bis, with date<a href="http://www.lawbird.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/PalacioJusticia.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-1428 size-medium" src="http://www.lawbird.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/PalacioJusticia-300x199.jpg" alt="PalacioJusticia" width="300" height="199" /></a> of the 7th of May 2014, has formally accepted a lawsuit filed by 15 pensioners against Rothschild, its jurisdiction on the subject matter and service of process on the Spanish addresses provided for N.M. Rothschild & Sons (Madrid and Barcelona).</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">According to the Unfair Competition and Protection Against Consumer Advertising, as ammended, (law 29/2009, of December 30, 2009), <strong>any service provider that advertises in Spain is obligated to run decent, legal, honest and truthful advertising</strong>.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">According to Lawbird Legal Services Rothschild offered a product, <strong>the Credit Select Series Mortgage Loan</strong>, that was sold to pensioners as a legal means to reduce the value of their otherwise unencumbered homes, for Inheritance Tax mitigation purposes.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The Tax Office, on the contrary, has ruled that such scheme <a href="http://www.lawbird.com/wordpress/spanish-tax-office-will-not-accept-equity-release-to-mitigate-taxes/">constitutes fraud</a>.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Acting pensioners have demanded from Rothschild that their mortgages, <strong>with a combined value of over €4 million</strong>, are cancelled (action for removal of effects). But also, lawyers have filed, in conjunction with the most pressing 'removal of effects action', a main and principal declaratory action, an action for cessation, future prohibition and for rectification of misleading, inaccurate or false information.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">With the new law it is also possible, if the court deems appropriate, to order that the judgment be published in whole or in part (this remedy is no longer dependent on an action for damages), or that a corrective statement be made.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Finally, it is worth mentioning that this case, alongside another one dealt with by the Criminal Courts in Denia, <a href="http://erva.es/2014/01/23/rothschild-dewsnip-danske-nykredit-and-sydbank-mentioned-in-parliament/">was a matter of Parliamentary discussion</a> by <strong>MP Huw Irranca-Davies and Conservative Treasury Minister Sajid Javid. </strong></p>
      • post_titleN.M. Rothschild and Sons to be Notified of Legal Proceedings by Malaga Mercantile Court
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      • post_date2014-06-02 15:57:16
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      • post_content<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.lawbird.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Palatinum1.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-1419" src="http://www.lawbird.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Palatinum1-300x200.jpg" alt="How Palatinum would look like" width="293" height="177" /></a>A Court in Madrid has ordered that “Caja de Ahorros de Murcia” is liable to return over €400,000 in deposits paid by British investors in the failed <strong>Urbanizadora Costa Palatinum/Proyectos Antele </strong>resort.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In a post written almost 4 years ago, we dubbed this developer <a href="http://belegal.com/blog-by-antonio-flores/defaulting-spanish-developers-to-prove-destination-of-deposits-or-else/">“civil swindler”</a> for taking deposits to finance an off-plan development that were never used for its intended purpose, in our opinion, fraudulently.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Consequently Lawbird Legal Services, represented by <a href="https://www.lawbird.com/staff/Roberto.Leiro">Roberto Leiro</a>, sued the developer in a Criminal Court in Murcia hoping that the Judge took notice of the fact that whilst the construction of this development was being aborted –with no mention of returning deposits- a newer project was being proposed in…Venezuela.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">As was the case, the Judge took no notice and the case was dismissed. However, the ruse had worked for us as the developer made full disclosure and submitted revealing documents that were otherwise out of our reach: <strong>a general bank guarantee issued by Caja Murcia to guarantee the Costa Antele Aparthotel</strong> and several <strong>bank account statements</strong>.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">With this document in hand, we filed a case in Madrid (avoiding where possible Murcia) against Caja Murcia <strong>demanding the return of off-plan deposits,</strong> based on the 57/1968 Act on Off-Plan Property Down Payments,<strong> as it was our understanding that:</strong></p> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li>A recent Supreme Court ruling had concluded that for the 57/1968 Act to apply, the off-plan property should be used for family living accommodation purposes, whether temporary, accidental or circumstantial.</li> <li>The developer had voluntarily submitted to the 57/1968 Act by producing a general bank guarantee that specifically referred to the Act.</li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;">The Court, on hearing the parties, upheld our allegations and ruled in favour of our customers, <strong>ordering Caja Murcia to make a full refund of the capital,</strong> <strong>plus interest</strong>. What are the conclusions to be drawn from this ruling? A few, and not just legal:</p> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li style="text-align: justify;">Most Courts are rejecting 2 defense arguments used by financial institutions who refuse responsibility on grounds that deposits were not paid into the “special bank account”, or that claimants did not have an individual policy.</li> </ul> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li>Buyers in this development now have an opportunity to seek relief by filing against Caja Murcia, on the basis of documentation we hold and the conclusions of this rulings. We are unsure however whether claimants who already sued the bank and lost their cases would be able to “revisit” the matter and sue again, by submitting new fresh allegations.</li> </ul> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li style="text-align: justify;">It is recommendable to avoid suing in Murcia, or its neighbouring province, Alicante. Both jurisdictions have, in our opinion, a large density of bank/developer-friendly Judges who are becoming known for their bank-liability-exoneration-rulings, and also developers.</li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;">Roberto Leiro will now issue enforcement proceedings for recovery of the deposits, a faily uncomplicated process considering that technically banks are mostly a "liquid asset" and tend to pay up promptly.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Have you been caught out in the <strong>Urbanizadora Costa Palatinum/Proyectos Antele </strong>fiasco? If so, contact us.</p>
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      • post_contentUn enorme cartel publicitario en la ladera de la montaña daba la bienvenida a Marbella. "Bienvenido a territorio MacAnthony". MacAnthony es <strong>Darragh MacAnthony, </strong>un halcón del negocio inmobiliario nacido en 1976 en Dublin que desde la Costa del Sol vendía promociones en España, Bulgaria, Marruecos, Turquía o Cabo Verde. En el Reino Unido es <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jan/10/peterborough-chairman-darragh-macanthony-attack-players" target="_blank">famoso por tuitear contra los futbolistas</a> del club que posee, el <strong>Peterborough United</strong>, en la tercera división inglesa, pero en la Costa del Sol lo conocen las decenas de británicos que le han denunciado por estafa con las promociones inmobiliarias con las que, dicen, les sacaba el dinero. Denuncian que la sociedad de MacAntonhy se esfumó de la noche a la mañana gracias a un nonagenario que asumió la titularidad llamado <strong>Fernando Arespacochaga del Olmo</strong>, sobrino del asesor fiscal de la 'jet' <a href="http://www.elconfidencial.com/economia/papeles-panama/2017-03-15/offshore-arespacochaga-asesor-fiscal-madrid-bahia_1346219/" target="_self">investigado por seis juzgados</a> <strong>Joaquín de Arespacochaga</strong>. Fútbol profesional, Marbella, testaferros, <a href="http://www.elconfidencial.com/economia/papeles-panama/" target="_self">Papeles de Panamá</a>... Aquí no falta de nada. El juzgado de instrucción 4 de Marbella investiga desde 2011 a MacAnthony y a su sociedad MacAnthony Reality International Spain. Decenas de británicos se querellaron contra él por estafa, blanqueo y apropiación indebida. Denuncian que les vendía casas en lujosas promociones prometiendo <strong>"una revalorización anual del 15%"</strong>. Aseguran que no solo cobraba anticipos por las viviendas, que en unos casos no llegaban a terminarse, sino que les cobraba otros servicios auxiliares con otras empresas. "MRI Lifetime, que es un servicio de instalación y mobiliario de los apartamentos, costaba 265 euros al año. Sorprende que les haga pagar por la instalación de muebles y el mantenimiento de la vivienda incluso mucho antes de que la misma esté construida", sostiene la querella del abogado <strong>Sergio García Bravo</strong>, que su sumó al procedimiento el verano de 2016. <article class="article-related h-related" data-related-analytic-event=""><figure class="figure-related"><img class="img-related-preview" src="http://3www.ecestaticos.com/imagestatic/clipping/3f9/fcd/3f9fcdcb55d4a205e4e0842ff50f231e/la-marana-offshore-de-arespacochaga-seis-juzgados-cercan-al-asesor-de-la-jet.jpg?mtime=1489517239" width="483" height="270" /></figure> <h3 class="title-related">La maraña 'offshore' de Arespacochaga: seis juzgados cercan al asesor de la 'jet'</h3> <a class="related-link" href="http://www.elconfidencial.com/economia/papeles-panama/2017-03-15/offshore-arespacochaga-asesor-fiscal-madrid-bahia_1346219/"><span class="sign-related">DANIELE GRASSO</span></a> <div class="text-related">Esta es la historia de un abogado, inspector y asesor fiscal, escritor y filósofo que habría hecho posible el desvío de fondos del caso Bahía</div> </article>El pleito lo comenzó el abogado <strong>Luis Fernando González</strong>, del despacho <a href="http://www.lawbird.com/" target="_blank">Lawbird</a>, especializado en Marbella a defender a británicos de las múltiples estafas que han sufrido. En nombre de 49 compradores les denunció por <strong>apropiación indebida y/o estafa</strong> por unos muebles que, decían, nunca llegó a proporcionarles y por los que <strong>reclamaban 492.495 euros</strong>. El abogado de MacAnthony, <strong>Enrique Fernández de la Lama,</strong> resta importancia al asunto: "Es la reclamación de unos clientes por la compra de unos muebles. Ya hemos justificado que fue porque llegó la crisis inmobiliaria. Fue a pesar de haber invertido más dinero del que se recibió de los clientes". Este considera que lo lógico es que el procedimiento penal se archive y la reclamación siga otro curso. Los demandantes no solo iban contra Darragh MacAnthony. Se dirigían también contra un hombre de 90 años llamado <strong>Fernando Arespacochaga del Olmo</strong>. Sostenían que era "formalmente el administrador único de la mercantil Inmobiliaria Vasco Peruana, la cual es, a su vez, también formalmente, la administradora única de la española MacAnthony Reality International Spain" (MRIS). Señalaban que dada la falta de movimientos económicos de la Inmobiliaria Vasco Peruana esta daba la impresión de ser <strong>"una empresa meramente instrumental"</strong>. <div class="articlephoto news-width-text"><figure class="news-img-figure"><img class="news-img-def " src="http://www.ecestaticos.com/image/clipping/654/a34f21aaf974e15551a6b8c1209d0bd4/joaquin-arespacochaga-fotografiado-por-la-policia-en-madrid.jpg" alt="Joaquín Arespacochaga, fotografiado por la policía en Madrid." width="654" height="459" /><figcaption class="news-img-caption-def">Joaquín Arespacochaga, fotografiado por la policía en Madrid.</figcaption></figure></div> El argumento del abogado González es que MRIS desapareció en esa empresa para que no hubiera a quién reclamarle el dinero. Y que Arespacochaga era solo un hombre de paja al que jamás se lo podrían reclamar responsabilidades. MRIS quedó liquidada en 2012. En un columpio de altas y bajas en el registro mercantil, la sociedad estaba en manos de Inmobiliaria Vasco Peruana SAC desde el año 2005. Esta sociedad tiene sede en Perú y, aparentemente, no tiene ninguna conexión con Macanthony. <h4>Sin cartel en la puerta</h4> La declaración de Fernando Arespacochaga en el juzgado confirmó que efectivamente él tenía poco que ver en el negocio. Allí afirmó "que un sobrino suyo es asesor de MRIS y le invitó a tener un cargo como director de esta empresa para agilizar los trámites de esta ya que los socios de la entidad no residían en España y él sí". Añadió que "por este cargo le pagan 600 euros al mes y que <strong>su sobrino se llama Joaquín de Arespacochaga"</strong> y admitió que "escapa a su control la actividad real de la empresa MRIS", que él confió en su sobrino, que era quien le decía dónde tenía que firmar. <span class="summary block-summary">Los vínculos entre MacAnthony y Fernando Arespacochaga llegan a las Seychelles</span> El nombre de Joaquín Arespacochaga quedó colgando en esa declaración. Nadie tiró del hilo. Era el asesor fiscal de MRIS y el que nombró a un nonagenario para que firmara. En otros seis juzgados de Cádiz y Madrid hay huellas de Arespacochaga, aunque en esos sí está siendo investigado, según una investigación de El Confidencial. Se trata de un inspector de Hacienda en excedencia y asesor fiscal de la jet. Está investigado por ayudar a miembros de la buena sociedad madrileña a fingir su residencia fiscal en el exterior, como tres <a href="http://www.elconfidencial.com/espana/2017-01-15/la-fiscalia-contra-los-cotoner-grandes-de-espana-y-residentes-en-luxemburgo-y-suiza_1316259/" target="_self">hermanos Cotoner</a>, tres hijos del exjefe de la Casa del Rey, y Enrique Maestre Cavanna, hijo del promotor Tomás Maestre. Según la investigación sobre el desvío de fondos públicos del dinero de la Bahía de Cádiz, Fernando Arespacochaga era utilizado como testaferro habitual por Joaquín Arespacochaga. La dirección de varias sociedades en las que participa la peruana en España es calle Azulinas 7, en Madrid, local identificado como centro de los negocios de Joaquín Arespacochaga en Madrid. <div class="articlephoto news-width-text"><figure class="news-img-figure"><img class="news-img-def " src="http://www.ecestaticos.com/image/clipping/654/5d97ff698369ccb06b99e8f3a2db8ec7/fernando-arespacochaga-tambien-era-titular-de-una-sociedad-offshore-que-acabo-en-manos-de-macanthony.jpg" alt="Fernando Arespacochaga también era titular de una sociedad offshore que acabó en manos de MAcAnthony." width="654" height="361" /><figcaption class="news-img-caption-def">Fernando Arespacochaga también era titular de una sociedad offshore que acabó en manos de MAcAnthony.</figcaption></figure></div> Cuando los abogados de los denunciantes de Marbella fueron a Madrid a ver la sede desde la que supuestamente se controlaban las inversiones en la costa vieron un <a href="http://belegal.com/blog-by-antonio-flores/the-inglorious-end-of-macanthony-realty-international/" target="_blank">portal anodino sin cartel en la puerta</a>. Nada que ver con la pomposa sede de MRIS en Marbella años antes, ante la que a menudo estaban aparcados coches de lujo. El abogado de MacAnthony, <strong>Enrique Férnández de la Lama,</strong> ve perfectamente lógica la relación: "El sobrino de Fernando Arespacochaga le llevaba temas fiscales y como no estaba aquí en España puso en el consejo de administración a Fernando, pero no ha tenido nada que ver como MRIS". Este sostiene, en contra de los denunciantes, que la Inmobiliaria Vasco Peruana no tiene nada que ver con las firmas de MacAnthony. <h4>"Pasadlo a Mossack Fonscea"</h4> El mismo papel de 'prestanombre' para la red societaria de su sobrino es el que Fernando de Arespacochaga tiene en las decenas de sociedades registradas en paraísos fiscales y creadas por el despacho de abogados Mossack Fonseca, a cuya base de datos este diario tiene acceso en el marco de la investigación de los Papeles de Panamá. En medio de los once millones de documentos que la componen es donde se halla la conexión 'offshore' entre Arespacochaga y MacAnthony. <div class="articlephoto news-float-out-fig"><figure class="news-img-figure"><img class="news-img-def " src="http://www.ecestaticos.com/image/clipping/585/63686ea3cd1fe06d1283d9802eee9926/constitucion-de-jaguar-capital-en-los-papeles-de-panama.jpg" alt="Constitución de Jaguar Capital en los Papeles de Panamá." width="585" height="727" /><figcaption class="news-img-caption-def">Constitución de Jaguar Capital en los Papeles de Panamá.</figcaption></figure></div> Los vínculos entre MacAnthony y Fernando Arespacochaga no se limitan a que el nonagenario pasó a controlar formalmente la inmobiliaria de Marbella. Se replicó idéntico a miles de kilómetros de distancia, en las islas Seychelles. El nombre de Fernando figuraba como accionista de la sociedad Jaguar Capital Limited hasta 2005. En 2006, esta compañía se utilizó para abrir una cuenta bancaria en Suiza a nombre de Natalie MacAnthony, la esposa de Darragh. Lo mismo hicieron ese año con <a href="http://www.elconfidencial.com/economia/lista-falciani/2015-02-14/se-aconseja-crear-una-sociedad-offshore-asi-el-hsbc-ayudaba-a-evadir-impuestos_712125/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=es&q=http://www.elconfidencial.com/economia/lista-falciani/2015-02-14/se-aconseja-crear-una-sociedad-offshore-asi-el-hsbc-ayudaba-a-evadir-impuestos_712125/&source=gmail&ust=1490036566901000&usg=AFQjCNHEY4RAceSKrGe8zQFZ-nY0heaMuA">cientos de sociedades</a> para burlar un actualización de la ley europea sobre secreto bancario. La mujer del magnate del fútbol figura como “beneficiaria final del 100%” de la sociedad incluso en documentos de 2015. El mismo <strong>Darragh </strong>intervino para agilizar los trámites. En un correo de finales de 2013 pide a su asesor que “pase los documentos a los de Mossack Fonseca, para asegurarnos de que todo esté bien hecho”. Y es que la sociedad tenía un fin declarado, gestionar una propiedad en Ascot, a las afueras de Londres. En marzo de 2016, la propiedad se vendió por 2,3 millones de libras, algo más de 2,6 millones de euros. <div class="articlephoto news-width-text"><figure class="news-img-figure"><img class="news-img-def " src="http://www.ecestaticos.com/image/clipping/654/47e4e58fd439dfa1d76921c26bfc2d80/un-cartel-de-darragh-macanthony-daba-la-bienvenida-a-la-costa-del-sol.jpg" alt="Un cartel de Darragh MacAnthony daba la bienvenida a la Costa del Sol. " width="654" height="327" /><figcaption class="news-img-caption-def">Un cartel de Darragh MacAnthony daba la bienvenida a la Costa del Sol.</figcaption></figure></div> El <strong>imperio de MacAnthony</strong> en la Costa del Sol es historia. Pero sus perseguidores son tenaces. Los abogados de Lawbird han encontrado la mansión que posee en Marbella, un enorme chalé de 2.500 metros en una parcela de 8.000 en la Sierra blanca. La llaman el mirador, por las vistas, y está a nombre de una sociedad. "¿Si las inmobiliarias quebraron y no pudo pagar a los que le compraron los muebles cómo se está pagando esa mansión? ¿Quién paga esa hipoteca?", se pregunta el abogado Luis Fernando González, que critica las maniobras societarias de MacAnthony, que no llevó sus empresas a concurso de acreedores. Estos recuerdan el gusto por el dinero de MacAnthony con una declaración de hace unos años: "Estaría desolado si en cinco año no atesoro un patrimonio de al menos mil millones de euros".
      • post_titleEl pufo marbellí de MacAnthony: un magnate del fútbol inglés usó la red de Arespacochaga
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      • post_content<img class="alignright wp-image-1515" src="http://www.lawbird.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/OVP_spanish-property-scam_Sunday-Life-204x300.jpg" alt="OVP_spanish property scam_Sunday Life" width="245" height="361" />More than 1,000 buyers from the UK and Ireland lost £45m after Birmingham- based <strong>Ocean View Properties (OVP)</strong> was formally dissolved in 2009. OVP was the exclusive agent for the Manilva Gardens luxury holiday complex in Estepona on the Costa del Sol. It was behind successful overseas property enterprises, but ran into difficulties as UK agent for Spanish developer <strong>Ricardo Miranda Miret</strong>. A claim for fraud and misappropriation of funds was lodged in February 2011 in a bid to recover deposits paid by investors to OVP. It has more than 50 Northern Irish investors among 120 claimants for £9.2m. A second class action complaint for £2m, brought by 30 British and Irish investors, was filed in 2013. Many Northern Irish investors remortgaged homes to finance their dream luxury buys. One local investor was Armagh ex-teacher Ollie Reel, who now works for a firm helping investors to recover their lost money. Mr Reel and his three brothers sank thousands of pounds into the deal, but have managed to get some of it back. “It started in 2006 and through a few good friends, mainly in GAA circles, they invested in Spain and I was persuaded at that time it could be good for me as well and I couldn’t lose out,” he told an Irish radio station. “The economy was booming and everyone was going mad buying property, like everyone else I got caught up in the euphoria of it all. “If only I had known what was ahead of me, I would never have considered it. “The investment I was involved in was in Estepona in Spain and there was about 100 of us on both sides of the border, I suppose we lost a combined €12m. “These apartments were all fully furnished, they were very good at advertising it, they flew groups of us down to Spain and we stood on the actual site and we were all taken in by owning a new property in Spain.” He added: “The company went bust and it was down to the fact that the developer who was building our property hadn’t even got a building licence.” Mr Reel explained that after going through Spanish lawyers, he eventually was able to recover around half of his £145,000 deposit through a group called the Claims Bureau. He now works as a consultant for the group. The Madrid High Court probe has been beset by delays and setbacks. An investigating judge was replaced after he was found to have family ties to Mr Miranda Miret. In the latest twist, the developer is accused of submitting forged documents in the criminal action. A spokesman for Marbella- based legal firm <strong>Lawbird</strong> said: “By using these documents, supposedly signed by the secretary of Ocean View in Spain, the developer tried to prove that they had formally notified the estate agent that it was not possible to continue selling apartments as no licences were in place and they didn’t own the land where the development was to be built.” Final witness statements for OVP are to be given on Wednesday. Following these submissions, the judge will decide if the case should proceed to trial. Mr Miranda Miret and others accused have all strongly denied any wrongdoing. Former Aston Villa captain Gareth Barry and BBC’s Homes Under The Hammer star Martin Roberts, who starred on I’m a Celebrity, were among those duped into marketing luxury off-plan apartments for the firm, though neither benefited in any way, or had any knowledge of the alleged irregularities. <a href="http://www.lawbird.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/OVP_spanish-property-scam_Sunday-Life.pdf">Original print (PDF ~ 4Mb)</a>
      • post_titleAlleged Spanish scammer accused over documents
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      • post_excerptA SPANISH developer alleged to have scammed over 50 Northern Irish investors in a multi-million pound property deal has been accused of forging documents
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      • post_contentEl barón <strong>David de Rothschild</strong>, heredero del famoso linaje industrial y durante años presidente de la banca <a href="http://www.elconfidencial.com/tags/empresas/rothschild-10002/" target="_self">Rothschild</a>, fue interrogado por escrito por un juez de Dénia (Alicante) que le investiga por publicidad engañosa. Lo hizo <a href="http://www.elconfidencial.com/empresas/2016-03-04/un-juez-pide-ayuda-a-francia-para-interrogar-al-baron-rothschild-por-publicidad-enganosa_1162966/" target="_self">el pasado 22 de julio</a>, aunque la <strong>comisión rogatoria</strong> con la respuesta no llegó al juzgado español hasta el 19 de diciembre. Decenas de jubilados británicos y alemanes acusan a la banca Rothschild de venderles un producto financiero para <strong>evadir el <a href="http://www.elconfidencial.com/tags/economia/impuesto-de-sucesiones-13308/" target="_self">impuesto de sucesiones</a> </strong>con el que pueden perder sus casas. El barón respondió una y otra vez que <strong>no sabía cómo funcionaba el negocio en España. "No conozco ese producto"</strong>, responde en un cuestionario repleto de evasivas. <div class="articlephoto news-img-zoom"><figure class="news-img-figure"><img class="news-img-def " src="http://www.ecestaticos.com/image/clipping/1330/f442cae25dc28ed64b502951cfdf2692/el-baron-de-rotschild-firma-su-interrogatorio.jpg" alt="El barón de Rotschild firma su interrogatorio." width="1330" height="1033" /> <div class="media-zoom-icon">AMPLIAR</div> <figcaption class="news-img-caption-def">El barón de Rotschild firma su interrogatorio.</figcaption></figure></div> Los jueces españoles siguen elevando el tiro contra la banca. El titular del juzgado de instrucción número 1 de Dénia, <strong>Pedro Pablo Abad Ortiz</strong>, prosigue con la instrucción de una <a href="http://www.elconfidencial.com/empresas/2015-11-03/mas-lios-para-rothschild-un-juez-de-denia-imputa-al-baron-por-publicidad-enganosa_1081137/" target="_self">querella contra la banca Rothschild</a> por <strong>publicidad engañosa</strong>. Jubilados británicos y alemanes en la costa han ido contra el banco por un producto financiero complejo. Simplificando, Rothschild les daba una hipoteca sobre la casa, ese préstamo era invertido y con los intereses ganaban dinero y además eludían el impuesto de sucesiones si uno de los cónyuges fallecía, porque estaba hipotecado fuera de España. Así comercializó unas 130 hipotecas que, a una media de 600.000 euros, suman <strong>unos 70 millones de euros</strong>, según estima <strong>Antonio Flores</strong>, <a href="http://www.lawbird.com/" target="_blank">abogado de los demandantes</a>, para dar un orden de magnitud. Flores tiene sede en Marbella y especializado en defender a extranjeros en la costa. Con la crisis financiera, esas inversiones fueron mal y los jubilados vieron después que debían poner dinero para mantener unas casas que ya tenían pagadas. Unos emprendieron pleitos por vía civil, que ganó Rothschild, y otros siguen en curso, pero este va por la vía penal por publicidad engañosa. "Es importante, puede pasar que vaya a juicio si no da la cara alguien. Él es el máximo director de la empresa. Es la persona que tiene que aprobar que se den esos millones en préstamos", señala Flores. "<strong>Yo no estuve implicado personalmente</strong> en los contratos de Credictselect series 4. Para responder a este cuestionario, me han indicado desde NMR [NMR Rothschilds & Sons] que jamás ha propuesto fondos de inversión ligados a los contratos de esos préstamos", señala el barón en su respuesta a un cuestionario por escrito. La comisión rogatoria a Francia fue enviada en marzo de 2016. En sus respuestas, que ocupan 17 páginas, abundan las evasivas: "La pregunta no está clara", "a fin de contestar a este cuestionario, NMR me ha indicado que...". <span class="summary block-summary">"Yo no estuve implicado personalmente en los contratos", respondió el barón por cuestionario</span> Según las respuestas de David de Rothschild, los préstamos se daban a "individuos que tenían un <strong>inmueble que no estaba sometido a ninguna hipoteca</strong>, que declaraban tener otros activos y que eran expatriados [británicos o de otras nacionalidades]", pero <strong>esa hipoteca nunca se dio para reducir el impuesto de sucesiones</strong>. Según él, era solo "un préstamo garantizado por el inmueble", y quien lo pedía seleccionaba "las inversiones de acuerdo con el consejo de su asesor". A la pregunta de si conoce a <strong>Stephen Dewsnip</strong>, señalado como uno de los artífices del esquema en España, responde: <strong>"Yo no lo conozco personalmente</strong>, pero me han informado desde NMR para contestar a este cuestionario que fue administrador de RBI [<strong>Rothschild Bank International Limited</strong>]". Este firmó como presidente de Rotschild Channel Islands un artículo en el que presentaba este sistema como un atajo contra el impuesto de sucesiones. Fue repartido en reuniones en la costa española, según los denunciantes. "Yo <strong>no he autorizado la publicidad de este producto</strong> porque no he estado jamás implicado personalmente en los contratos de préstamo", responde el barón al juez de Dénia. Más adelante, responde que NMR no publicitaba la reducción del impuesto de sucesiones. <span class="summary block-summary">El barón, a la televisión francesa: "Me sorprendería mucho que se hubiera hecho algo ilegal"</span> Los demandantes, en cambio, han alegado que siempre <strong>se usaba la marca Rothschild</strong> y han aportado folletos en los que con el logo del banco se les vendía como una forma de eludir el impuesto de sucesiones. Sin embargo, la<strong>dirección general de Tributos</strong> contestó a una consulta que no era legal eludir el impuesto de sucesiones hipotecando un bien en el extranjero. Esa hipoteca en el extranjero <strong>“no es deducible a efectos del impuesto de sucesiones”</strong> y hacerlo “supone una <strong>infracción tributaria sancionable”.</strong> <div class="articlephoto news-float-fig"><figure class="news-img-figure"><img class="news-img-def " src="http://www.ecestaticos.com/image/clipping/330/f625588ddb510ef30e6ccb4e109b51c7/publicidad-de-rothschild-repartida-en-la-costa-del-sol.jpg" alt="Publicidad de Rothschild repartida en la Costa del Sol." width="330" height="329" /><figcaption class="news-img-caption-def">Publicidad de Rothschild repartida en la Costa del Sol.</figcaption></figure></div> "Nadie en el seno de NMR ha estado implicado de ninguna manera en la gestión de esos fondos de inversión", señala el barón. Su defensa es afirmar que <strong>ellos solo daban la hipoteca</strong> y que la inversión del dinero —lo que falló y amenaza con llevarse las viviendas— era algo independiente. Hasta ahora, los tribunales españoles han dando la razón en vía civil a Rothschild o los casos siguen en tramitación, pero el caso de Dénia va por vía penal por publicidad engañosa. El asunto ha llegado a la televisión francesa. El pasado mes de diciembre, la cadena France 2 emitió el reportaje '<a href="http://www.francetvinfo.fr/replay-magazine/france-2/complement-d-enquete/video-rothschild-le-pouvoir-d-un-nom_1946741.html" target="_blank">Rothschild, el poder de un nombre</a>'. Acudieron a la Costa del Sol a entrevistar a afectados por esta hipoteca. En el vídeo (minuto 55), la periodista le enseña al barón la publicidad con el logotipo de Rothschild en que se anunciaban los préstamos. Aparentemente molesto, David de Rothschild replica: "<strong>Eso no se podría hacer sin la participación de cierta gente en España</strong> que consideraba que era buena idea [...] Me sorprendería mucho que se hubiera hecho algo ilegal".
      • post_titleUn juez de Alicante interroga al barón Rothschild por publicidad engañosa
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      • post_contentCourt of First Instance 11 in Bilbao has ruled that twelve mortgage loans valued at six million euros, granted to British families mostly in Malaga province between 2004 and 2007, should be declared void. The case was dealt with in Bilbao as all loans were granted at a notary in the city, and the representatives of the lender, SL Mortgage Funding nº1 Limited (SLMF), were also based in the Basque city, according to<strong> Lawbird Legal Services SLP</strong>. These loans were sold to attain a reduction in potential inheritance tax, inasmuch as the mortgage would reduce the taxable value of the property, but also to supplement the modest pensions received by the owners of the properties. <strong>SL Mortgage Funding nº1 Limited (SLMF)</strong>, based in Chester (UK), had not applied for the necessary regulatory permits to legally raise funds from the public and provide an investment service - activities reserved and regulated by the Bank of Spain and the CNMV (financial regulator). In spite of not having any of the above authorisations, SLMF would lend but at the same time retain most of the proceeds of the loan, which would then be invested by the company. The ruling declares that “infringing the protocols set by the relevant administrative authority to supervise the disputed product is a regulatory violation that exceeds that of a mere breach of banking laws, such as misselling, so profusely dealt with recently in relation to the massive sale of complex financial products.” The judge who presided over this case concluded that the breach of public policy “is far more serious” as it made a mockery of a whole system of financial and banking supervision designed to prevent abuses to consumers and protect the stability of the sector. He likened this behaviour “civil fraud”, which is any proposal that contravenes mandatory regulations or has a false or forbidden reason. The sale of this product was conducted via commission-earning financial advisory firms (<strong>Hamiltons Financial Services</strong>, <strong>Henry Woods Investment Management</strong> and others), based in Estepona, Marbella and Fuengirola. SLMF also recommended a network of lawyers which would downplay the extent of the lack of licensing requirements of the bank and the product. According to Lawbird Legal Services SLP, working on behalf of the claimants, the ruling confirms that “operating in breach of mandatory banking and financial regulations makes the offender a ‘boiler room’, even if the company was legally operating in its own country”. It also allows the victims to “end the nightmare” which has blighted the victims for over ten years. The judge concluded by saying that all contracts and agreements executed between the clients and the bank should be terminated, but also applied the laws of contractual termination in a novel way with the clients able to claim back everything they had put in without having to return what was given to them.”
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