• Events Luis Lorenzo's wife insists that "she has not touched" the inheritance or made use of her dead aunt's money

  • Events Arrested actor Luis Lorenzo and his partner for murdering her aunt with poison to keep her inheritance

Arantxa Palomino, 46, the wife of Luis Lorenzo and accused of the alleged poisoning homicide of her 86-year-old aunt Isabel, said in the Civil Guard dungeons after her arrest last week that

if she had known all this "she would have cremated to my aunt,

according to the summary of the case."That way nobody finds out and none of this would have happened, that I'm not an asshole, I only fulfilled her last wish, which was to bury her in the town next to her husband," she said. Arantxa to the agents after an attempted suicide in the detention center of the Civil Guard Command in Madrid, according to the testimony of the agents.

The actor's wife and he are being investigated by a judge in Arganda del Rey for the alleged murder of the aunt at the request of a complaint by the deceased's brother for

possible poisoning with heavy metals to keep his inheritance.

The couple is on provisional release with precautionary measures because they have a young son and there is no risk of flight.

The summary of the case includes numerous statements by relatives and friends of the deceased who also leave Arancha in a bad place.

One of the sisters-in-law of the deceased woman, Consuelo Fernández, also assures, according to the summary, that Arancha has 72% schizophrenia and that she and the actor met on a television program.

"I don't know what they do, they're not supposed to work a lot," adds the sister-in-law, who assures that

Arancha doesn't talk to her father

about her and that her mother died a long time ago.

This same relative also pointed out that Arancha "had lawsuits with her former partner over the issue of custody of their common child and that she had not allowed her ex-partner's son to see her for three years." The summary also details that the deceased elderly woman did not suffer any type of dementia and that she was in perfect condition when her niece and her partner took her from Asturias to Madrid for the first time in August 2020. "She suffered a little deafness and her hand trembled, but her head was fine," she says. the sister-in-law, who assures that Isabel was taken by force to Madrid.

"Isabel had no intention of going to Madrid," her sister-in-law tells the Civil Guard.

"Isabel did not want to see her niece.

In fact, when they came to Asturias for one of the trials Arancha had, she wouldn't let them pass and they had to sleep in the car."

The sister-in-law assures that Isabel spent some time in Madrid and decided to return to Asturias.

"When she came back from Madrid she said she didn't want to come back anymore. She was already very ill and half upset. She was afraid of Arancha and Luis Alfonso and that they would rob her. When she got home she only had a jacket and hardly anything under it. She came back with a prescribed medication that was immediately withdrawn in Asturias".

In March 2021, Arancha and Luis Alfonso manage to take their aunt Madrid again under the excuse that the octogenarian had to take care of the couple's youngest son.

"The problem is that Isabel was very sorry for Arancha and she didn't know how to say no," Lorena, a niece of the deceased, tells the Civil Guard.

"

Isabel did not like Luis very much because of things she saw

. Isabel frowned when she talked about Luis," another close friend of the deceased told the Civil Guard, who indicated that Arancha's life "is in chaos." .

Another of Isabel's friends in Asturias said that the deceased said that "she had a problem with her niece Arancha, which consisted of telling her that her mother was missing, that she felt sorry for her and that she went to Madrid to help her, but that Isabel did not like going to Madrid and that she did not like Arancha's husband".

He also added that the marriage hid his clothes so that he could not return to Asturias.

Isabel left Asturias for the last time in March 2021. After that trip to Madrid

, Isabel began to deteriorate and the alleged ill-treatment

by her niece until she died in June 2021.

Arancha's justifications

In an intervention in 'Telecinco', collected by Europa Press, the investigated has insisted that her aunt has not been poisoned and that she has not used her money.

"I have not touched her inheritance,"

she has reviewed.

The investigated has wanted to clarify that there is a medical certificate that proves that her aunt was in full power when on May 21, 2021 she went to sign a power of attorney to the notary, a document that does not appear in the summary of the investigative proceedings.

The woman has detailed that

the power of attorney was made because she wanted to know the money that her relative had to cover her expenses

and after the bank told her that she could not know her balance unless she was authorized.

"I have not made use of that money," stressed the investigated, who maintains that she did not know the balance of the accounts until the day she died, on June 28, 2021. Regarding the inheritance, she explained that the same are still the same beneficiaries than the previous will.

Faced with this, the summary reveals that on that day and the following day he transferred up to 11,700 euros, some expenses for the woman's funeral that a company took over.

In total, the proceedings show that of the 60,000 euros in the accounts, 22,000 euros were allegedly moved in favor of the niece, among whose various amounts were destined for medical expenses.

In addition, 127,000 euros were found on the sofa in the couple's room by Civil Guard agents during the search of their house in Rivas.

Arancha has explained that

the money that the Civil Guard found in the registry of the house belonged to her husband, who has 30 years of experience as an actor

and who had decided to keep it in her house.

"There is no economic motive. This situation is going to be clarified but the media damage is irreparable. I have nothing to hide. My family is destroyed and my children are labeled," he lamented.


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