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Alicante lawyer sentenced to prison for deception

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A 44-year-old lawyer in the city of Alicante was given eleven months in prison by the Alicante Provincial Court for lying to a client. He talked her into hiring him as a professional for a number of property and tax matters, then charged her for his services without doing the work that they agreed to do.


The lawyer admitted to stealing money and came to a deal with the public prosecutor’s office and the private prosecution. This means that the court believes he is still responsible for the crime.

The court agrees to use the mitigating factor of undue delay to account for the time that has passed between the crimes and the hearing.

There is information in the decision that the defendant used the fact that he was the cousin of the person who was hurt and trusted by that person to get her to hire him as a lawyer.

So, in May 2017, he was able to get the client to give him his first case, which was a law issue related to an inheritance from her parents. To begin, the accused asked her to give him 950 euros right away as payment for his fees.

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Later, in 2018, he persuaded the person who was hurt to send him several amounts of money: 12,700, 3,200, 4,000, and 1,500 euros. This was for another matter related to paying the property transfer tax. He even sent her the form that was filled out, making it look like he had taken care of the bankruptcy before the Tax Agency, even though he hadn’t.

Later that same year, she was able to get him to send her another 2,004 euros so that she could file an appeal against having to pay capital gains tax on a house she had sold for less than she paid for it. When it came time to pay the VAT tax in 2019, the same thing happened.

The court decision said that the lawyer “took all of the money and used it for his own purposes without keeping the promises of the agreed professional arrangements.”

In addition to the 11-month prison sentence, the judge said the accused must pay the injured client 21,523 euros to cover the payments they got.

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21 expensive cars that were stolen in the U.S. were found Valencia port

Together with the US Container Security Initiative, the Guardia Civil and the Tax Agency found 21 high-end cars that were stolen in the U.S. and were on their way to Africa in the port of Valencia. The cars, which were worth a total of €1.1 million, were reported stolen and were being moved in containers.

The cars were stolen in the U.S. and were on their way to different places in Africa, stopping in Valencia’s port. Risk analysis units made up of Guardia Civil and Tax Agency officers were able to find several packages that might not have had the goods that were claimed to have been inside.

With the help of the information gathered, it was confirmed that stolen cars that had been in Valencia on their way to the United States had actually arrived. The groups that ship stolen cars either traded legally declared cars for stolen ones or directly declared the stolen cars as other goods, like furniture or mattresses.

In the past few weeks, 21 vehicles have been found and will be sent back to their home countries to be given to their original owners.

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14 immigrants were saved on a boat 45 miles off the coast of Alicante

On Wednesday, 2nd April, the Maritime Rescue ship Salvamar Leo saved 14 immigrants who were travelling in a boat about 45 miles from Alicante.

In the middle of the afternoon on Wednesday, Maritime Rescue sent out its Helimer 223 helicopter and the Salvamar Leo, which is based in Alicante, to save the people on a small boat.

Their journey began on the Salvamar Leo, which took them to the Temporary Assistance Centre for Foreigners in the port of Alicante. There, the Red Cross took care of them.

The Red Cross says that all of the refugees they saved were men, and two of them were younger than 15 years old. They were all healthy after being treated.

The National Police took over the refugees after getting help from the Red Cross. They are now trying to find the boat’s captain so they can arrest him, as is normal in these situations.

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Dénia wrestler arrested in connection with a network that smuggled 300 kilos of cocaine from Ecuador

National Police Alicante Arrest

The National Police’s Drugs and Organised Crime Unit arrested a famous mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter from Dénia. He was part of a gang that was partly broken up in August over a shipment of 300 kg of cocaine from Ecuador that came into the port of Valencia. The fighter from Dénia is one of five people who were caught by police. Along with nine other gang members who were already in jail at the time, they are now in jail.

The man who was arrested in Dénia is thought to be the trusted man of the gang’s leader, who is also an MMA fighter, and the person who is said to have worked as a go-between in the operation.

Levante-EMV also says that the broken-down network is linked to another shipment of 490 kg of cocaine that came into the port of Valencia in April of last year.

The five people who were just caught went before Valencia’s Investigative Court No. 20 yesterday, April 3rd.


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