The Las Palmas Public Prosecutor's Office has requested that the former president and former administrator of the owners' association of the Apartamentos Australia complex in Playa del Inglés, southern Gran Canaria, be brought to trial before the Provincial Court for alleged aggravated misappropriation. The indictment details a "preconceived plan" by which the defendants, MGLL and AMTF, allegedly systematically diverted funds from the community accounts for their own benefit and that of their private companies between 2008 and 2011.
The owners unknowingly paid the salaries of employees of Kalima Group Entertainment SL (wholly owned by the administrator) and Sirocco Empresa de Servicios CB. These workers did not provide any services at the Australia complex, but their salaries were paid with bearer checks signed by the president. Direct payments were detected to Gestiones Turísticas Australia SL (where both defendants were administrators) for work that, according to the prosecution, was never performed. Essentially, false invoices were issued to justify the cash withdrawals. The president personally went to the bank to withdraw cash using 39 checks and 3 promissory notes issued "to bearer." These transactions were never reflected in the official accounts presented to the residents at the meetings.
The Public Prosecutor's Office maintains that the defendants abused their positions of trust to carry out numerous opaque banking transactions. According to the report, the then-president used her authorized signature to issue nearly 40 bearer checks and promissory notes, obtaining direct payments of over €26.000. This amount is in addition to another €44.800 embezzled through bank transactions that the administrator, responsible for accounting, deliberately failed to record in order to facilitate the flow of funds to interests unrelated to the community.
The technical scheme described by the Prosecutor reveals that the owners' money not only ended up in private hands, but was also used to cover the expenses of other companies belonging to the defendants. They are accused of diverting almost €30.000 to pay the salaries of employees of Kalima Group Entertainment SL—of which the administrator was the sole owner—and of the firm Sirocco Empresa de Servicios. Furthermore, invoices totaling more than €6.000 were detected for services never rendered by Gestiones Turísticas Australia SL, a company established by the defendants themselves.
Despite the seriousness of the events, which point to a total financial loss exceeding €100.000, the proceedings have reached the oral trial phase with significant delays. The prosecution's brief formally acknowledges two periods of judicial paralysis (between 2015-2016 and 2020-2021) not attributable to the defendants, which will foreseeably open the door to the application of the mitigating circumstance of undue delay in the Provincial Court's future ruling.
