When Bodega Stratvs was closed by the courts a few days before Christmas 2013, my first reaction was one shared by many people: “How ridiculous to close a business that is doing great things for Lanzarote, and put 40 people out of work a few days before Christmas, over a planning anomaly.”
But over the following two years, the investigation carried out by Judge Silvia Muñoz has revealed an alleged catalogue of lies, deception, theft and corruption that would do justice to a Jeffrey Archer novel:
Here are a few of the things that are alleged to have taken place: read more »
- Some of the land used didn’t belong to the company, it was simply taken. When the owners complained, they were offered shares in the business, an offer they turned down.
- The licence granted was to renovate an existing 900 square metre building. In reality,