{"id":584,"date":"2011-11-18T14:17:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T13:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/?p=584"},"modified":"2014-05-05T19:06:09","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T18:06:09","slug":"51-expats-summoned-to-give-evidence-in-macanthony-probe-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/51-expats-summoned-to-give-evidence-in-macanthony-probe-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"51 expats summoned to give evidence in MacAnthony probe in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-585\" style=\"border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid; margin: 20px 10px 20px 20px;\" title=\"Darragh-MacAnthony\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Darragh-MacAnthony.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Darragh-MacAnthony.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Darragh-MacAnthony-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Darragh-MacAnthony-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/>The British and Irish victims will tell a judge at Marbella court how MacAnthony\u2019s company MRI failed to deliver over half a million euros of furniture to them.<br \/>\nJudge Juan Carlos Palma Diaz is investigating whether the Peterborough Chairman should face charges of \u2018fraud\u2019.<br \/>\n\u201cThe claimants have been ordered to come to Spain as the judge wants to depose them, together,\u201d explained lawyer <strong>Antonio Flores<\/strong>, who is representing the claimants.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is an exceptional request and a special room to fit them all is going to have to be arranged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is bad news for MacAnthony,\u201d explained the boss of company <strong>Lawbird<\/strong>.<br \/>\n\u201cThe next step is to see if he wishes to settle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" align=\"justify\">The alleged victims \u2013 who filed a claim in Madrid in June \u2013 accuse MacAnthony, 35, of keeping 600,000 euros which they paid for furniture packages for homes in Bulgaria, Turkey and Morocco.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" align=\"justify\">MacAnthony faces legal action alongside his former chief executives Michael Liggan and Dominic Pickering for \u2018theft by swindle and misappropriation of funds\u2019.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" align=\"justify\">All three have consistently denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing is set to take place in January 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A STAGGERING 51 expats have been summoned to court to give evidence against property millionaire Darragh MacAnthony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[58,59],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawbird-in-the-media","tag-antonio-flores","tag-lawbird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1314,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/1314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}