Confusion over MRI Court Case
There has been a large amount of confusion over the court case in Madrid, being taken by clients of MRI Overseas Property, against the company.
On his blog Darragh MacAnthony claims: “Today I can announce that the claim Flores presented in court in Madrid on the 3rd of June was rejected/thrown out on the 7th of June, Flores was notified on the 10th of June. It took 4 days for the court to reject the claim.”
Flores, however, denies this claim and states that MacAnthony is twisting the findings of the court saying: “… the ‘Audiencia Nacional’ has chosen to defer the criminal complaint filed for swindle and misappropriation to the Courts in Marbella. Alas, he has conveniently omitted the fact that the Courts have not made any comment on the claim itself other that stating that this likely criminal activity is to be heard elsewhere. The AN has taken the route of stating that the ‘possible’ swindle and misappropriation is not in a massive scale that could affect the normal performance of the Spanish economy and thus, determines that it should be the Marbella Courts who should deal with this matter.”
Flores goes on to say:
Claimants have requested from the Courts that Mr. Macanthony answers the following:
1. Where is the money paid by 51 of his former clients for furniture packs?
2. Why did he alternate company directors, choosing an insolvent 90-year old man, Fernando De Arespacochaga Alcalá del Olmo, living in Lima, Perú, to front a company acting as a director for his dying companies?
3. Why did he re-domicile his companies to a non-descript office in Madrid that serves as a cemetery for creditor-dodging companies?
4. Why did lucid Mr. Arespacochaga appoint in March 2005, November 2005, December 2006 and December 2009, 4 different companies directors, all of which now deny knowing what were their roles?
5. Why did he disappear from Spain and not file for insolvency?
6. Why does he have a forum with over one thousand members with an axe to grind?”
The forum mentioned in point six is that at MRI-SG.