He was the subject of an arrest warrant from a Barcelona court after more evidence emerged along with possible victims of fraud related to the sale of homes.
The arrest was made at a hotel at 4am on Monday. Comitre had arrived in Mallorca on Sunday in order to attend a golf tournament, the warrant having been issued on Saturday after various searches had been carried out in Catalonia and Ibiza. After making a statement in court in Palma, he was released. An existing court order prohibits him from leaving national territory.
Comitre is at the centre of 'Operation Cocoon', which dates back to 2015. He and a notary, Enrique Peña, allegedly masterminded the massive deception of more than a hundred people - most of them in Catalonia - who, without knowing it, ended up losing their homes. Financial products were offered that, in reality, concealed a strategy to take over clients' homes at no cost or at a price much lower than the market price.
He and others were first arrested in 2015. He faces a prosecutor demand of 20 years in prison.
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Regrettably there are too many "bent" abogados taking foreigners for a ride in Spain, personally I have never been affected, but a close friend was taken when buying a property in Javea, my step father in Mallorca. Property and land Law is complicated enough in UK, but if you can not speak the tongue fluently where you are buying in Spain and have to rely on others, the event is like a trip through a mine field. You are lucky if you get through with the correct papers, and even more lucky if not fleeced.