Tomás Olivo, the Cartagena businessman who owns the La Cañada shopping center in Marbella and one of the richest people in Spain, yesterday faced an accusation of sexual harassment of a 13-year-old girl during a plane trip. Despite the fact that the minor has retracted the complaint before a notary public and during the trial, the oral hearing has continued. That rectification occurred after the Prosecutor’s Office made the indictment with the imputed crimes.
Therefore, the document signed by the notary would not be among the evidence to be judged until it was presented before the court, which had to accept it. Without that document, the Prosecutor’s Office asked for three years in prison, five years of restraint at 500 meters and compensation of 2,000 euros. The session was held behind closed doors and the businessman, experts, witnesses and the minor herself, who was finally present in the room, testified.
The prosecutor remains
Before the court, the rectification of the complaint made by the minor before a notary was presented, which appeared to ratify that what was declared in that document was maintained before the magistrate. According to judicial sources consulted, the alleged victim said that she did not remember what had happened three years ago – now she is 16. Tomás Olivo asserted that the reported events had not occurred.
The mother of the minor, as well as the witnesses cited, assured that the girl invented it because she did not want to go on vacation with her grandparents to Miami. The experts who testified in the First Section also confirmed that the girl had lied in the complaint that she filed against the businessman.
Despite the version offered in the Chamber by the minor, the prosecutor maintains the request for a prison sentence and refers to the first statement of the minor. The Public Ministry maintains in its accusation that Tomás Olivo changed seats during a flight from Madrid to Malaga, in September 2019, to stand next to a 13-year-old minor who was traveling unaccompanied. The complaint – later rectified before a judge – indicates that he took advantage of the fact that the girl was asleep to put his hand under her pants.
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