ZAP
The five arrested are suspected of three crimes, which in all will have caused losses of over seven million euros.
The Judicial Police (PJ) detained, in Algarve, five women who sold real estate ‘Online’ to foreign investors, Without knowledge of the ownersand which are suspected of crimes that will have caused losses greater than seven million euros.
In a statement, PJ explains that women are suspicion the practice of crimes qualified scam, document falsification and capital bleaching in the real estate sector.
Crimes, committed in the Algarve region, will have injured more than Two dozen people.
The “key in hand” operation resulted from an investigation related to the unlawful activity of a real estate entrepreneur, who at least for a year, promoted the sale of real estate in the Algarve, essentially along with foreign investors, Without the knowledge of the owners, who were surprised by the existence of provisional sales records of their properties.
This woman has entered into contracts for the promise of purchase and sale of the properties concerned in the offices of applicants in the Algarve region or through documents by them, without knowledge or the intervention of the owners of the real estate.
PJ said there were buyers who even gave this businesswoman amount over one million euroscorresponding to the value of the respective sign, values that the suspect appropriated.
During the operation three search Households and four in offices of solicitors, in which a “high probationary documentary collection”, computer equipment, cash and jewelry values were seized.
The PJ admits the existence of other victims, since during the operation were located documents related to business still unknown to the investigation, “having been perceived attempts to contact alleged customers.”
According to the judiciary, in recent days new complaints have been presented, for payments of more than Two million and seven hundred thousand euros.
The “Key in Hand” operation was developed by the Department of Criminal Investigation of Portimão, with the collaboration of the Southern Board.
The investigation, titled by the Évora Regional DIAP, had pulled out in 2024.
The arrested will still be present to the judicial authorities.
