The Public Prosecutor at the Provincial Law Court is recommending a 6-year, prison sentence for a Motril man who allegedly swindled a woman over a flat sale.

The 61-year-old accused allegedly sold the victim a flat that had not even been built, with the collaboration of another man, aged 68, for whom the P.C. recommends a 3-year sentence.

The affair goes back to the 23rd of January, 2006, the accused signed the sale in the name of a limited company. The contract contained an obligation for the handover of a dwelling on the second floor of a building in Motril, “to be built.”

The agreed price was 109,000 euros and as a deposit, the claimant had to hand over 3,005 euros and a further 6,010 euros upon signing the contract.

According to the P.C., the accused had no intention of building the said property, even though the handover date was January 2007.

This is where the other accused, the 68-year-old man comes in, says the P.C., who acting in the name of another company was charged with selling the properties and who received, during 2006, a total of 14,223 euros in the shape of sales commission,  reservation of the contract, even though he knew that it was not going to be built.

The building was never put up and the money was never returned to the claimant, for which reason the P.C. also recommends a fine of 7,200 euros on top of the 6-year-sentence and a 3,000-euro one for the second accused, on top of the 3-year prison sentence

The case will be heard on the 10th of May.

(News: Motril, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)