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Also appearing before the court in Marbella on Wednesday accused of fraud were Dominique Pickering, Sarah O\u2019Callaghan and Nicola Shaw, all former MRI executives. Michael Liggan failed to appear.<\/p>\nThe chairman of Peterborough United FC and former property developer Darragh MacAnthony, whose name once adorned MRI billboards welcoming potential buyers to \u2018MacAnthony territory\u2019, was back in Marbella this week to answer charges brought against Mac-Anthony\u2019s MRI Property International by a group of about fifty former clients. The group, mainly British and Irish, say they paid 15,000 euros each for furniture packs for properties in Turkey, Bulgaria, Italy, Cape Verde, France and Morocco which were never delivered.<\/p>\n
Also appearing before the court in Marbella on Wednesday accused of fraud were Dominique Pickering, Sarah O\u2019Callaghan and Nicola Shaw, all former MRI executives. Michael Liggan failed to appear.<\/p>\n
MacAnthony was questioned for two hours, during which he confirmed that MRI had received the money from the claimants but stated that the funds had been transferred to the furniture manufacturers, who never supplied the goods. Pickering, O\u2019Callaghan and Shaw\u2019s statements were all to the same effect. In support of this assertion their defence lawyers have presented a document – which to date has not been shown to either the judge or the lawyers for the prosecution – which apparently shows details of the bank transfers to the furniture providers.<\/p>\n
Administrator<\/strong><\/p>\n According to the lawyer Luis Fernando Gonz\u00e1lez Ord\u00f3\u00f1ez<\/strong>, the Mac-Anthony property companies were effectively closed down without going into administration, with the only representative now being a 90 year old Spaniard, Fernando A. Alcal\u00e1 del Olmo, sole administrator of the Hispano-Peruvian company, Inmobiliaria Vasco Peruana SAC. A. was also in court on Wednesday and stated that he had never had any direct contact with the other accused, and that he is still in receipt of 600 euros a month paid to him by MacAnthony for his services.<\/p>\n The group of clients who accuse MacAnthony of fraud are claiming in total more than half a million euros which they say they deposited with MRI for the purchase of furniture. Most of the transactions took place in Marbella, in the MacAnthony offices which were housed in the building previously used as his \u2018Club Financiero\u2019 headquarters by the late Mayor, Jes\u00fas Gil.<\/p>\n The Marbella judge will now have to decide whether to proceed with the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MacAnthony executives claim that it was the furniture providers who pocketed the 600,000 euros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[60,57,69,68],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawbird-in-the-media","tag-luis-fernando-gonzalez-ordonez","tag-luis-gonzalez-ordonez","tag-macanthony","tag-mri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","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=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1900,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions\/1900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}