Investigated for concealment of assets the developer who handed over unfinished flats in Barcelona

BarcelonaA judge in Barcelona is investigating the development company Spacek XXI and its administrator, Ramon Triquell Monfort, following a complaint accusing him of hiding assets to avoid paying a debt. Triquell was responsible for a network of real estate companies to whom various clients accuse of delivering unfinished homes in Barcelona and various developers accuse of non-payments, as ARA explained last April.

According to the order, which the Efe agency has accessed, the investigating court has admitted the complaint for trial, filed for a crime of asset stripping, and has summoned the developer as an investigated party, also for punishable insolvency.

The complaint, filed by the company Gadisol Inversiones, accuses the investigated parties of devising a plan to hide their assets and evade payment of a debt of 110,400 euros, an amount corresponding to a final judgment issued in February 2022 for breach of an earnest money contract signed in 2017. The prosecution maintains that, in the context of the enforcement of the judgment, over 30,000 euros from the developer's accounts were seized in September 2023, but a formal defect in the proceedings forced the annulment of actions and the return of the money to the investigated party.

When the court managed to issue a new embargo in February 2024, the asset valuation showed a complete absence of assets, which, according to the prosecution, indicates that "all assets disappeared from their patrimony", including an "elevated number" of real estate properties. Shortly thereafter, according to the complaint, Spacek XXI declared bankruptcy proceedings which concluded quickly due to insufficient active mass, but a new asset investigation requested in June 2025 revealed "the existence of numerous properties that the company had not declared in the bankruptcy proceedings".

Request for dismissal

For its part, Triquell's defense has requested that the case be dismissed, as it considers the lawsuit to be a "reckless criminalization of a civil matter" seeking to pressure the investigated party to personally assume Spacek XXI's debt. His lawyer denies any patrimonial concealment and argues that the funds obtained from the sales were deposited before a notary to pay legitimate debts, such as taxes and current expenses. Furthermore, the defense asks for the plaintiff to be ordered to pay costs for "bad faith," alleging that the prosecution bases its complaint on outdated cadastral data and ignores the real information from the Property Registry.

In response to this dismissal request, in a document recently dated April 2026, the prosecution maintains that the investigated party himself acknowledged having consigned or deposited 68,305 euros from the sale of properties in a notary's office, a circumstance which, in the prosecution's opinion, was intended to prevent its seizure.