The provincial law courts in Granada will be judging the case of a Town Hall clerk in Almuñécar for allegedly fiddling land boundaries.

The trial will be held on the 28th and 29th of May and the incident dates back to 2007 when the funcionario allegedly helped a family to illegally alter the boundaries of their property in the detriment of a neighbour in the Barranco de La Golondrina.

The victim, in this case, was an elderly woman and wife of their cousin. The accused persuaded her to sign a blank piece of paper and lend them her DNI (identity card). She complied because she unwittingly trusted the woman and her son who had gone to her house with the request.

Armed with these items obtained through subterfuge, they went to the Oficina del Catastro to claim that there had been a boundaries error, with the intent of creating a new catastral document that effectively encroached the land of others.

The document was handled by the said functionary (civil servant or public clerk) who reportedly got the document through the bureaucratic process and accepted.

Then in 2015, the family that had benefited from this ‘arrangement’ sold this fictitious property to a third party, which was when it all went pear shaped.

Consequently, the son is facing a recommended sentence of six years and three months’ imprisonment for illegally altering property boundaries and the clerk faces four years’ imprisonment for document forgery and four more banned from public employment in this field.

Finally, the son’s parents, who are deemed too old to stand trial, face no charges.

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

Keywords: Property Boundaries, Oficina de Catastro, Clerk, Funcionario, Prison Sentence, Duped

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