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Welcome to Start the Week, we ended last week with a couple of more Court of First Instance rulings against Anfi. Once again the courts awarded back substantial amounts to the clients as well as declaring the contracts null and void.

This does make the claims of the CEO of Anfi, that they are not losing any cases rather shallow to say the least.

At the Court of First Instance in Arona, Tenerife, the judge has ordered International Holidayway Marketing SL, to repay over 7,000€ plus legal fees and legal interest. The clients contract has also been declared null and void.

Following on from the ongoing dispute at Los Claveles, Inside Timeshare has been receiving many comments from both sides. There does seem to be very wide difference of opinion, the following comment has been received with author asking to remain anonymous, unless Inside Timeshare deems it helpful to name him. At this point it has been decided to leave it anonymous, this letter is from a pro-committee owner.

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“Time to talk?  With an organisation that:

Does not respect or abide by the Constitution and Statutes that apply to our resort?

Sacks well respected members of staff without justification?

Does not comply with the orders made by the Arbitrator, even though they are participating in the Arbitration?

Employs staff that physically and verbally assaulted our Club President, Carol Parkinson (who is over 70)?

Produces false charges to the Spanish Police about Carol Parkinson and Albert Fletcher, causing Carol to be arrested in Tenerife and having to return there later for a court hearing?

Lies to Spanish courts that they cannot contact Albert Fletcher whilst continuing to send him letters?

The resounding answer is “No”.  Onagrup has twice had the opportunity to talk, before and after the 2015 AGM, and on both occasions has failed.  The overwhelming majority of owners that the Club Committee is able to reach (because of Onagrup’s refusal to hand back the Club’s membership register), directed the committee to stop talking and instead go to arbitration to settle the dispute.

The Club Committee has just issued to members an initial response to the latest letter from Snr Castro, MD of WimPen Leisure Management SA which again breaches the rules of confidentiality of arbitration and which again has been sent out using the Club’s membership register without permission.

The impression given by Mr Castro is that only WimPen has had success in the arbitration and that a few minor matters remain for the appeal court. On that basis he infers that the arbitration was a waste of time and money. As Mr Castro knows very well but fails to mention, WimPen was either refused permission to appeal, or withdrew its appeal, against the arbitrator’s findings that the committee formation and the AGMs and SGMs held by the committee were legal. This means that appointing Hiro Bulchand as the new Administrator was also legitimate, contrary to WimPen’s claims. Which in turn means that WimPen’s administration of the Club since the management contract expired in March 2017 has been illegal. The committee’s belief is that all of these issues were raised for appeal by WimPen in order to destabilise the Club and prevent the Club having any leadership, clearing the way forward for a takeover by Onagrup.

Turning to the financial information provided by Snr Castro, none of these figures has been audited. In addition, owners have been refused repeatedly their constitutional right to inspect the financial records and accounts by WimPen/Onagrup. It is also worth mentioning that the accuracy of the financial figures previously provided by Onagrup for the Escritura owners’ AGM in May 2016 was highly questionable. Whilst it appears that the resort’s funds are growing, these figures cannot be regarded as reliable until audited by an appointed accountant and inspected by the Club Committee.

The bottom line is that there is more to running a timeshare resort than just making a profit. The Management Company needs to have the respect of the Owners and it needs to respect them.  Onagrup has demonstrated from the outset that it is not a suitable choice for Los Claveles which has a fundamentally different ownership model compared to the other WimPen managed resorts, and as a consequence is most at risk of takeover.  Ask any of the owners who have had their holiday ruined by Ongrup’s reckless rental  policies of allowing noisy and disruptive groups of teenagers to book into the resort, and they will soon tell you that it is quality not quantity of rentals that is important.

Unlike the tiny minority of disgruntled owners who are campaigning against the democratically elected committee, the huge majority of owners are completely united in getting Onagrup (and Trustee FNTC) out of Los Claveles through arbitration. This huge majority of owners directed the committee to enter into arbitration and they authorized the committee to incur the expense of legal representation.   The appeal court judge’s decision is expected early in the New Year, and if he rules against Onagrup, the way will then be clear for the owners’ legitimately appointed Administrator to replace WimPen and get on with managing Club Los Claveles for all of the members.

Inside Timeshare thanks all those who send in comments which are conducive to the debate, it is you the members who need to resolve this issue. Until all members are informed of the situation, then being able to make up their own minds as to which way forward is best, this will drag on and may incur considerable legal expenses. Whichever side you are on, the time to talk is now.

In tomorrow’s Tuesday Slot with Irene, we look at the Billion $ lawsuit and why a Federal Court Judge has ruled in favour of Diamond Resorts International. There is also the story of Mary Bowling a former DRI sales agent, who has a case at the courts in Hawaii. Once again we highlight another military family falling foul of unscrupulous sales agents.

As we were about to publish the first sentence from the Court of First Instance of this week has just come in.

Once again it is against Anfi, the judge in this case has awarded over 5,000€ plus over 7,000€ in maintenance fees and legal interest, also declaring the client’s contract null and void.

Watch this space for the news as it happens.

 

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