The judicial war opened in Madrid by Santana Cazorla against Lopesan has a clear front: money. Santana Cazorla began, with the support of Swiss capital, to get involved in the purchase of land belonging to the Conde de la Vega Grande family from 1985 until Spain's entry into the euro established it as one of the largest construction and services groups in the Canary Islands and now , after losing a good part of the assets, takes refuge in the Anfi del Mar time sharing and where the owners of temporary spaces purchased attend perplexed in Europe to see what happens with their investments given that Lopesan has little experience in time sharing and they fear that the complexes become pure and simple hotels.
The Santana Cazorla business group, based in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, entered bankruptcy on March 22, 2021. The bankruptcy was declared by the Commercial Court number 1 of Las Palmas, and is processed by the rules of the ordinary procedure. The company employed 2.000 people and was an important economic driver for the south of Gran Canaria. In the entire judicial spiral, one detail: before Lopesan bought part of Anfi del Mar, Grupo Anfi denounced its president for "appropriating" a ship that belongs to the company, taking it out of Spain and taking it to Morocco. One brother denounced the other. The boat appeared in the records as property of the Anfi Group until 2017, when the defendant decided to register the boat in his name, La Provincia reported at the time.
According to the forecasts of the Anfi del Mar management company, the income from the development in 2023 was 118 million euros. This figure represents an increase of 10% compared to 2022 income. Income from tourism exploitation represented 40%. Income from tourism operations would have increased by 5% thanks to the recovery of international tourism after the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Santana Cazorla business group and the Lopesan group are facing a series of legal proceedings related to the sale of Anfi del Mar, the tourist development located on the southern coast of the island of Gran Canaria. In 2021, Manuel Santana Cazorla, one of the founding partners of the Santana Cazorla group, sold his 50% stake in the group to IFA Touristik, a company of the Lopesan group. This sale occurred in the middle of the bankruptcy of the Santana Cazorla group.
The remaining partners of the Santana Cazorla group, led by Santiago Santana Cazorla, brother of Manuel Santana Cazorla, consider that the sale of Anfi del Mar was illegal and that it was carried out to harm the company. For this reason, they have filed a series of complaints against the Lopesan group and Manuel Santana Cazorla, accusing them of fraud, unfair administration and misappropriation. The complaints have been filed on three occasions, but the partners of the Santana Cazorla group have appealed the resolutions. The case is pending resolution by the Provincial Court of Las Palmas.
In parallel to the complaints, the Lopesan group has filed a lawsuit against the Santana Cazorla group to claim ownership of Anfi del Mar. The Lopesan group argues that the sale of the development was valid and that it has the right to its property. The case is pending resolution by the Court of First Instance number 1 of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The resolution of these judicial processes will have a significant impact on the future of Anfi del Mar. If the Lopesan group wins the lawsuit, the development would become the property of the group. If the lawsuits are successful, the sale of Anfi del Mar could be declared void and the development could once again be owned by the Santana Cazorla group.
