The National Police has arrested three people as alleged perpetrators of a real estate scam in two urban complexes of Playa Fañabé, in the municipality of Adeje, information provided by DIARY OF NOTICES in our edition of Wednesday the 5th, two days after they were “assaulted” four homes in residential La Duquesa and another three in Villas del Duque.
The arrests occurred after the complaint of the administrator and president of the community of owners of La Duquesa, in which they stated that these chalets “squatted” they had not been sold by their owners, all Russians, as was implied by the deeds provided by a real estate group, which on Monday, the 4th, changed the locks of several chalets and that same day there were already tenants in the alleged Real estate purchased for 460,000 euros, when its real value exceeds 700,000 euros, acknowledged Rebeca, administrator of residential La Duquesa.
The The arrests took place early Thursday morning., one of them specifically at five in the morning in Playa Paraíso, while there were also two other house searches. The detainees are the person in charge of the alleged real estate purchaser, of Uruguayan nationality, with initials AGRC, his wife of Russian nationality and another citizen also of Russian origin. The investigation is still open and more arrests are not ruled out.
For now, the National Police has alerted the property registry and notaries about this new fraud produced with allegedly false powers of attorney from the real owners of these properties, most of which are in Russia, and without the possibility of being able to come to Tenerife. . However, one of them, when he was notified of the fraud, arrived on the Island and has already recovered his home, forcing the tenants who were in his property to leave, missing the safe.
Specifically, three of the four semi-detached houses (numbers 6, 21 and 22) have already returned to their owners -thanks also to the work of Kirill, representative of the interests of some Russian owners in that urbanization– that now they will have to legally “recover” their house in the property registry, recalled the administrator Rebeca, satisfied with the rapid police intervention, whose agents have also been monitoring the area these days.
As noted Joe Shacherpresident of the community of owners of La Duquesa, it all started when “a real estate agency said that it had bought in Russia and deeded in its name, with clearly false powers, about eight houses, but their owners, with whom we are in contact, confirmed to us They haven’t sold anything.”
As Rebeca acknowledges, “seeing the papers they present with the notary’s signature, the sale seems legal, but we have denounced it, because the Russian owners insist that they have not sold anything and have no intention of doing so.”
Both the administrator of the residential and those affected, through lawyers, began on Tuesday to investigate how these sales could be forged before a notary, Rebeca explaining that “we have spoken with the notary and he tells us that they come with powers of attorney from Russia and with an apostille, and that he has no way of knowing that they are false; therefore, at first sight the sale seems legal”. Thus, she indicated that the operation originated first in Russia and then in Tenerife.
“It is a new method of ‘squatting’, because no one has sold and we are all very nervous, with strange people that we have never seen around here walking down the street at night,” Rebeca commented.
