LAWYERS have called a halt to a case concerning an alleged multi-million pound overseas property scam involving a Yoxall businessman in an effort to get the judge changed – after they claimed his brother had links with some of the firms involved with the case.<\/p>\n
In a letter to hundreds of people impacted, legal bosses have revealed that they have asked for Judge Jose Emilio Coronado Ruz to be removed from presiding over a class action lawsuit against Spanish developer Ricardo Miranda Miret.<\/p>\n
Lawyers are delaying the case until the judge is replaced after links between his brother and one of the developers involved in the case were uncovered.<\/p>\n
Previously, the Mail has revealed that Colin Thomas, of Town Hill, had been subpoenaed to appear in Madrid.<\/p>\n
The criminal claim for fraud and misappropriation of funds was lodged in 2011 in an effort to recover money on behalf of dozens of Ocean View Properties (OVP) victims.<\/p>\n
Mr Thomas\u2019s company, OVP, was behind a string of successful overseas propoerty enterprises but ran into difficulties when it became involved as a UK agent for Spanish developer Ricardo Miranda Miret.<\/p>\n
More than 1,000 British investors, who paid a total of \u00a345 million for \u2018off-plan\u2019 overseas property developments, have lost their money after the firm was formally dissolved in 2009 with the appointment of liquidators Grant Thornton.<\/p>\n
The court claims made in Madrid are linked to developments which never materialised at the Estepona Country Club on the Costa del Sol and Punta Perla, in the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n
Mr Thomas is currently banned from being a company director for nine years following an Insolvency Service investigation.<\/p>\n
He was also cleared by the Serious Fraud Office and Staffordshire Police following an investigation into the collapse of OVP.<\/p>\n
Neither Mr Thomas nor his advisors were available for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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