Nightclub business fraud case continues

The Provincial Court in Palencia will continue the oral hearing today against three people as allegedly responsible for a crime of fraud, although the third as a necessary cooperator, in the management of the Chapó nightclub.

The trial began this week, following the request of the parties, with the testimony of several witnesses and an expert, while on Thursday it will be the turn of the statements of the accused, as well as the reading of the final reports. For one of them, the prosecutor requests a sentence of five years in prison and the payment of a fine of 3,600 euro, and for the other accused, the request for imprisonment is three years and a fine of 2,520 euro, while for the third, in his capacity as a necessary cooperator, requests free acquittal based on the defence of kinship, although in terms of civil liability he does request payment of joint and several compensation from the three accused of 517,800 euro. For its part, the private prosecution requests higher penalties, compared to the defence.

The events now being judged date back to 2012 when one of them, in order to avoid going into bankruptcy, supposedly accepted the plan devised by those investigated to create a new company to which the business of the old one had to be transferred, the Chapó nightclub, and offering to be the front man in some of the operations.

As stated in the Prosecutor’s brief, the two main defendants “behaved as if the businesses were their property, making decisions without counting on the complainant, appropriating businesses for which they had not paid anything based on fictitious contracts”.

In fact, the main defendant “began doing work in the nightclub without the consent of the legal owner, exploiting the business in his own name.”

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