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56 Ciencias Jurídicas y Derecho
5605 Legislación y leyes nacionales
560505 Derecho penal
Estafa piramidal y falsedad contable: análisis jurídico-penal del caso AFINSA
Abstract
En el año 2006, la sociedad española Afinsa fue protagonista de uno de los fraudes corporativos más importantes sucedido en los últimos años en España. Especializada en la inversión en sellos, Afinsa perfeccionó un negocio piramidal dirigido a la captación masiva de ahorros que terminaría en una estafa de la que más de 190.000 inversores serían víctimas. Tras la intervención de la empresa y la detención de los responsables el 9 de mayo de 2006 se inició un largo y complejo proceso judicial que se prolongó durante diez años, hasta julio de 2016 cuando la Audiencia Nacional condenó a los ex directivos de Afinsa por estafa agravada, insolvencia punible y falsedad contable.
A continuación se expone un breve análisis de los hechos más relevantes del caso con el objetivo de determinar si las conductas de los miembros de la cúpula directiva de Afinsa son subsumibles en los tipos penales que se les imputan. Debido a la extensión del trabajo, el análisis jurídico-penal se centra exclusivamente en los delitos de estafa y de falsedad contable, si bien se incluye una breve consideración del delito de insolvencia punible a fin de resolver los problemas concursales y concluir la pena que corresponde a cada uno de los acusados principales.
In 2006, the Spanish company Afinsa was involved in of one of the most notorious corporate frauds that had happened in the last years in Spain. Specialized in stamp investments, Afinsa designed a pyramid-scheme business model focused on raising funds that would finally affect the life savings of over 190,000 investors. After the court action against the company, on May 9th, 2006, the criminal proceeding lasted for ten years, until June 2016, when the Spanish National Court convicted Afinsa’s former directors of fraud, insolvency and accounting falsification. The following project presents a brief analysis of the most relevant facts of the case in order to determine whether the behavior of the members of Afinsa’s board of directors fit with the crimes that they are accused of having committed. Due to the limited extension of this document, the analysis focuses on the crimes of fraud and accounting falsification, although a brief consideration of the offense of insolvency is also included in order to cover the joinder of offenses and conclude the appropriate sentence for each of the convicted criminals.
In 2006, the Spanish company Afinsa was involved in of one of the most notorious corporate frauds that had happened in the last years in Spain. Specialized in stamp investments, Afinsa designed a pyramid-scheme business model focused on raising funds that would finally affect the life savings of over 190,000 investors. After the court action against the company, on May 9th, 2006, the criminal proceeding lasted for ten years, until June 2016, when the Spanish National Court convicted Afinsa’s former directors of fraud, insolvency and accounting falsification. The following project presents a brief analysis of the most relevant facts of the case in order to determine whether the behavior of the members of Afinsa’s board of directors fit with the crimes that they are accused of having committed. Due to the limited extension of this document, the analysis focuses on the crimes of fraud and accounting falsification, although a brief consideration of the offense of insolvency is also included in order to cover the joinder of offenses and conclude the appropriate sentence for each of the convicted criminals.
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Keywords
Afinsa, estafa, falsedad contable, insolvencia, negocio piramidal, inversión filatélica, sellos., Afinsa, fraud, falsification of accounts, insolvency, pyramid-scheme, stamp investments, philately.