The Provincial Court of Santa Cruz de Tenerife has sentenced a natural lawyer from Almería to ten months in prison and to return 17,050 euros plus interest to a client from the municipality of La Laguna who gave him that amount of money to manage a divorce and who later got scammed. The room has taken into account the highly qualified mitigation of damage repair, since before the trial was held, she already delivered the defrauded money.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office modified its initial conclusions by taking into account that the amount defrauded had been repaid, and requested the disqualification from practicing as a lawyer during the time the sentence lasts, as well as a fine of 450 euros. Finally, it accepted a judgment of conformity between the parties, with which it is final. The lawyer had been sentenced on two previous occasions by the Criminal Courts of Almería for the crimes of misappropriation, on one occasion to one year and six months, in 2015, and in 2017, to one year and 9 months.