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A UDEF report has described how a disputed apartment on the Granada coast was at the centre of an alleged intimidation campaign in which men were said to have posed as police officers and lawyers to pressure the owners.
According to the investigation cited in the report, the alleged incident took place on 15 January 2026, when the suspect went to the flat in person in an attempt to take control of the property. The owners alerted the Guardia Civil, which attended the scene and drew up a police report.
Pressure at the door
Investigators say the alleged tactics were part of a wider effort to frighten legitimate owners into giving up homes that had been included in property lots transferred to an investment fund. The report says some of the people involved visited homes directly and repeatedly asked residents to show proof of ownership.
In at least one case, two men are said to have turned up again and again and then presented themselves as police officers, warning the complainant about the seriousness of the situation. The purpose, the report concludes, was to unsettle mainly elderly owners and push them out of their homes.
UDEF also says some of the workers carried registry paperwork to argue that the fund was the lawful owner. The report alleges that one of the men also handed over keys to a flat in Granada together with a video showing a lock being manipulated and a new one fitted.
Questions over the firm behind the visits
The same report says the businessman linked to the fund publicly presented himself as a lawyer and claimed Yale training, although he was not registered as a solicitor in Spain. It also says the business was not formally registered as a law firm.
He had already been convicted by a court in Almuñécar over similar pressure tactics in a separate case. In that incident, the court found him guilty of coercion after he appeared at a property and sought to take physical possession of the home.
The investigation forms part of a wider property dispute that UDEF says affects homes in Granada and Málaga provinces, including several on the coast. The owners in the January incident contacted the Guardia Civil after the confrontation at the apartment.
