owners of the Guadalpín Marbella and Guadalpín Banús hotels, both in Marbella, have started to shut up apartments in protest at the ruling from the Mercantile Court 1 in Málaga last July 12th which granted provisional management of the establishments to a company from the MS Hoteles group. It comes as the hotels were affected by the bankruptcy protection of their owners, the Aifos group.
A statement from the hotel owners to Europa Press said that they had recommended all owners of apartments to ‘resolve their contracts, immediately close the rooms, and change the locks’. The hotels use a system where the owners of the apartments rent them to a company which then rents them out. It’s claimed the owners should chose that management company, and not have one imposed on them by the court.
Reports indicate that already more than half the 127 apartments in the Guadalpín Marbella have been closed up. It was made clear that no client was being forced to leave the hotel, but they were waiting for their stay to come to an end.
Union UGT has also made a complaint to the judge, considering the choice of management company is at odds with the owners wishes, but consider the closure of the rooms could lead to the closure of both hotels and the loss of numerous jobs. A CCOO union spokesperson described the closure of the apartments as ‘barbaric’.
Miguel Sánchez from MS Hotels, given the management job by the court, said that his company was independent of all parties, denying accusations of the owners, and he called on the UGT union not to ‘look for ghosts where there aren’t any’.
Meanwhile the prosecutors’ office has announced it is to appeal to the Supreme Court against the sentence which found the owner of Aifos, Jesús Ruiz Casado, and his wife, not guilty of fraud in the sale of homes in several urbanisations. The prosecution sustains that purchasers were tricked in the contract which they signed with the promoter.
(Read the Málaga court decision – here)
A statement from the hotel owners to Europa Press said that they had recommended all owners of apartments to ‘resolve their contracts, immediately close the rooms, and change the locks’. The hotels use a system where the owners of the apartments rent them to a company which then rents them out. It’s claimed the owners should chose that management company, and not have one imposed on them by the court.
Reports indicate that already more than half the 127 apartments in the Guadalpín Marbella have been closed up. It was made clear that no client was being forced to leave the hotel, but they were waiting for their stay to come to an end.
Union UGT has also made a complaint to the judge, considering the choice of management company is at odds with the owners wishes, but consider the closure of the rooms could lead to the closure of both hotels and the loss of numerous jobs. A CCOO union spokesperson described the closure of the apartments as ‘barbaric’.
Miguel Sánchez from MS Hotels, given the management job by the court, said that his company was independent of all parties, denying accusations of the owners, and he called on the UGT union not to ‘look for ghosts where there aren’t any’.
Meanwhile the prosecutors’ office has announced it is to appeal to the Supreme Court against the sentence which found the owner of Aifos, Jesús Ruiz Casado, and his wife, not guilty of fraud in the sale of homes in several urbanisations. The prosecution sustains that purchasers were tricked in the contract which they signed with the promoter.
(Read the Málaga court decision – here)
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