{"id":658,"date":"2012-02-01T10:21:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T09:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/?p=658"},"modified":"2014-05-05T19:06:06","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T18:06:06","slug":"spanish-court-will-not-investigate-equity-release-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/spanish-court-will-not-investigate-equity-release-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish court will not investigate equity release scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_659\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-659\" class=\"size-full wp-image-659 \" title=\"audiencia-nacional-not-enough-evidence-property-danish-banks\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theolivepress.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/audiencia-nacional-not-enough-evidence-property-danish-banks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">THE AUDIENCIA NACIONAL WILL NOT BE INVESTIGATING THE SCAM THAT LEFT SCORES OF EXPATS AT RISK OF LOSING THEIR HOMES<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Audiencia Nacional insists there is not enough evidence to merit launching a criminal investigation despite the group of 20 foreign residents filing over 200 pages of documents against several Scandinavian banks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a clear case of judicial apathy by the Court which, after probably not reading the claim, considered it nevertheless irrelevant in what is a steadily worsening record of protecting rights of consumers,\u201d said Antonio Flores from Marbella law firm Lawbird who is representing the Malaga victims.<\/p>\n<p>But offering a ray of hope to the hundreds of expats affected, the Danish government on the other hand has now decided to open an investigation into the scam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt does not sound very good if a Danish bank is involved in such a concept. It will be included in our priorities\u201d insisted Johnny Hansen Schaadt, director of The Danish Tax Office Special Department of Economic Crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE Spanish national court has announced it will not be investigating the equity release scam that has left scores of expats on the Costa del Sol facing losing their homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[58,74,59],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawbird-in-the-media","tag-antonio-flores","tag-equity-release","tag-lawbird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","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=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1296,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/1296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}