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Two businessmen who allegedly defrauded friends and coworkers out of almost 400,000 euros are facing prison

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.
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Eleven tourist apartments in Santa Pola and four in Elche are removed from the tourism registry

The Valencian Community of Tourist Use residences (VUT) Tourism Registry is being updated by the Generalitat, which means that residences that have not submitted the necessary paperwork to stay in the registry will be removed from the census. Only four properties will be removed from the census, despite the fact that 803 will be deregistered throughout the province of Alicante. This is because the municipality of Elche is wagering more and more on the tourism industry. Eleven are in the Santa Pola case.
They have been found in the Marismas urbanisation, Playa Paraíso II, Paraíso I, and Gran Alacant, as well as in other already remote streets. In this way, the fishing village experiences exponential growth in the summer due to the influx of tourists from the rest of the country or second homes in the area, primarily from Elche.
When it comes to Elche, there are four residences in the hamlets, which are also the locations that see the most tourists during the busiest times of the year. Two in Arenales del Sol and two in L’Altet in this instance. The first apartment is located on Valladolid Street in the Infinity View residential area, while the second is located on Algeciras Street in the Ocean View Phase 1 development. L’Altet has two locations: one on a remote piece of rural property and the other on Vereda del Sur Street in the Los Limoneros development.
Only 200 of the 950 tourist apartments in Elche are now occupied.
Lastly, the outlying districts of Elche are where the majority of these tourist apartments are located. There are 950 VUT registered in the city, the City Council said, in reference to the housing issue that has been the focus of considerable discussion in recent months. According to this viewpoint, Elche is not a tourist destination that poses a problem and these serve to enhance the local hotel offerings. Only 200 of the 950 tourist units that have been registered are currently in use. Of these, 116 are in the city, 86 are in La Marina, 15 are in El Altet, 12 are in Jubalcoi, 671 are in Arenales, and the remainder are in other distant regions. However, the City Council last year approved the first building permission in the city for a particular tourist housing complex consisting of fourteen flats on Calle Beethoven.
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Firefighters in Torrevieja commemorate the day of their patron saint

The Torrevieja Fire Station’s amenities they celebrated San Juan de Dios Day, the patron saint of firemen, which is observed annually around March 8th. Family members and public representatives from the Torrevieja City Council were invited to participate in a variety of events.
In the morning, trucks, drones, and a canine search unit were used in rescue demonstrations. Additionally, the Provincial Fire Department sent out a chopper.
In addition, a lunch with paella and stew with meatballs was served, and tributes were given to a number of professional firefighters who have worked in this park, one of the most significant in the Provincial Consortium.
Public representatives from the Torrevieja City Council, including Mayor Eduardo Dolón and Councillor for Security Federico Alarcón, attended these open days for family members.
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A huge anabolic laboratory in Alicante is dismantled by the National Police

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.
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