Today, Monday March 10th, a couple of businessmen are on trial in the Second Section of the Alicante Provincial Court for allegedly committing a number of scams involving hundreds of thousands of euros through fictitious real estate investments.

The two owners of an investment-focused company, a man and a woman, are accused of defrauding two people in two different transactions, and the prosecution is asking for a six-year prison sentence for the ongoing crime of fraud.

According to the prosecution’s brief, in January 2017, they persuaded a man who had been the accused’s boyhood friend to invest about 300,000 pounds in their business in exchange for a house in Pego that the business would purchase for him.

The prosecution claims that the victim never received the money back and that the business did not make the purchase. Additionally, they persuaded her company’s administrative assistant to lend them 70,000 euros in May of that year, which the business would repay with interest after a year. She therefore insists that they told her in September that she was fired because the business was closing. The victim never got her money back.

Antonio Gemignani, a Neapolitan TikToker who goes by Papusciello on social media, is being sought by Italian authorities for drug-related offences. Since Tenerife and Alicante are the last locations from which he wrote on his social media, the authorities are searching for this Neapolitan national in various regions of Spain.

The Torre Annunziata Public Prosecutor’s Office (south) conducted an operation last Thursday to destroy dozens of drug sales locations between the cities of Naples and Salerno, affecting 51 people, including Gemingnani.

The judge mandated that 15 of them be placed in preventive detention in prison, 17 were placed under house arrest, and 19 were had to report to the police station daily in order to stay in their town.

According to local media reports, Gemignani, a 47-year-old TikToker known as Papusciello, has more than 150,000 followers for his comedic videos. However, since the police operation, his whereabouts have been unknown.

He has, however, released a number of movies in recent days that appear to take place in various locations throughout Spain, such the town of Calpe in the province of Alicante or the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands.

The videos have since been deleted and on Sunday his profile on the platform became “private”, that is, closed to the public.

In an operation that resulted in 11 arrests, the National Police demolished a covert laboratory in Alicante that had the ability to manufacture three million doses of anabolic steroids.

The General Directorate of Police (DGP) reports that during the searches, more than 4,300 euros, three kilogrammes of various active ingredients, encapsulating machines, centrifuges, thousands of empty vials and capsules, and more than 300,000 doses of illegal medications were found.

The accused were able to make over 15,000 euros a month by obtaining the active ingredient needed to make anabolic steroids from Asian nations in packages that looked like they contained paste or nutritional supplements.

Police said that because the criminal group sold solely to acquaintances and inside homes or other extremely secluded locations, they were able to ensure a high level of security by making deliveries by hand.

After that, it was processed at a laboratory in a different house in the province of Alicante than the one where the criminal organization’s boss resided. In an attempt to create a highly pure product, it was combined with oils, dyes, and other cutting materials there, in an unsanitary environment.

The boss’s closest associates were among his extensive network of distributors, who served end users under his supervision.

As a result, the agents discovered that one of the distributors wanted to grow the company nationally and suggested to the leader that a brand with eye-catching branding be established in order to get more reputation and draw in new clients. However, this marketing approach was not implemented because it may draw notice if they achieved a very large amount of sales.