Sevilla property fraudster arrested after dozens scammed on Costa del Sol

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A SEVILLA resident has been arrested after allegedly conning at least 28 people on the Costa del Sol and throughout Andalucia.

People paid the suspect deposits for homes and apartments in Jaen, Cordoba, Granada, Sevilla, Malaga, Huelva, Madrid, Badajoz and Guadalajara.

But when they arrived to collect the keys, he was nowhere to be seen and was unreachable by telephone or email.

He also used personal information from his victims to open bank accounts and register with telephone or broadband companies.

Officers soon tracked down the suspect to a home in Cañada Rosal in Sevilla.

There they found several credit cards, 60 mobile phone cards, different IDs and mobiles and stacks of documents, which are all being analysed.

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Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
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He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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