The Court of A Coruña rejects the request of four banks to investigate Sandra Ortega in the Room Mate case

The Provincial Court of La Coruña has rejected the request of four financial entities to judicially investigate the eldest daughter of magnate Amancio Ortega,

, in a case that would be followed for the crimes of falsehood in a commercial document, unfair administration, fraud and procedural fraud .

Sandra Ortega herself, owner of 5% of Inditex, began the judicial procedure that has also been about to sit her on the bench as an investigator and not only as a plaintiff.

The businesswoman against her former number two,

, whom she accuses of having forged her signature to benefit

, Kike Sarasola's hotelier.

The case is prosecuted in the Court of Instruction number 2 of A Coruña and, once the investigations progressed, Deutsche Bank filed a complaint against Sandra Ortega and against

its investment arm, understanding that she also had responsibility in the management of the loans to Room Mate and not only Leyre, advisor first to his mother,

and then his, until in 2020 he was fired and then sued.

Three other banking entities,

, were later added to Deutsche Bank's initial complaint, which first asked the investigating court and then the Provincial Court of A Coruña to cite her as investigated, considering that she was aware that her signature was simulated. to get credits.

Both judicial bodies rejected this possibility.

An order from the second section of the Provincial Court of A Coruña released this Thursday shelved the matter because there is no longer any appeal against it.

Specifically, it has dismissed the appeals filed by the four entities against the prior order of the Investigating Court number 2 of A Coruña.

Already the investigating judge refused to admit the complaint and the Court confirmed it.

The complaint filed by Sandra Ortega against her former advisor is that Leyte forged her signature to form letters of sponsorship, a document similar to a guarantee, according to which the banks had the guarantee that the businesswoman would cover a possible non-payment of Room with her assets. Mate.

Deutsche Bank maintains in its appeal that Sandra's initial complaint "proposes a factual account that is not very plausible", because, in her opinion, "it is not credible that the sole administrator of Rosp did not find out about the modification of the guarantees".

She also assured the bank that there is "a scenario of fraudulent action by the businesswoman" against the banks.

The bank talks about a plot in which the crimes of falsity in a commercial document and unfair administration that Sandra denounces would be added to those of fraud and procedural fraud, she would have committed.

In the request now rejected, it was intended to gather all the crimes in a single cause, but the Court points out that admitting it will mean giving the cause a "degree of complexity and consequent delay" in the process.

In fact, the procedure initiated by the businesswoman against her former manager "already incorporates several thousand pages to date", since "a large number of investigation procedures have been carried out, plus those that are yet to come".

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