The investigating court 5 of Tarragona has charged Rosa Peral and her father, Francisco Peral, with the seizure of assets and has summoned them to testify on January 24 at 11 a.m., as La Vanguardia has learned. The judge has accepted the complaint presented by the victim's relatives, considering that there may be indications of a crime of asset hoarding in the actions of the woman convicted of the crime of the Urban Police for having donated the house in Vilanova i la to her father. Geltrú of which she owned so as not to have to compensate the victim's relatives. Rosa Peral shared ownership of the home with her ex-husband Rubén and transferred 50% of the ownership to her father a few days before the Supreme Court confirmed the 25-year sentence that the Barcelona Court had imposed on her in the first instance for the murder of her boyfriend, Pedro Rodríguez.
The sentence of the Barcelona Court, which was ratified by the TSJC and then by the Supreme Court, condemned Peral and the other convicted person Albert López to pay 885,000 euros jointly to the victim's relatives, of which 450,000 correspond to the son of the deceased. If you do not have these funds, your properties would be seized until the claimed amount is reached. However, Rosa Peral, before the sentence was final, specifically just six days before the Supreme Court met for the vote and ruling on the appeal, summoned a notary to the El Catllar prison in Tarragona in the who is a prisoner, to proceed with the donation of the property to her father. In this way she became insolvent and was exempt from paying compensation to her son, ex-wife, brother and father of Pedro Rodríguez. According to the property registry, the change of ownership of the home was made on July 17, 2021. Six days later, on July 23, the vote was called and the ruling on the appeal of the Second Chamber of the Court was called. Supreme.
“There is an almost exact coincidence of the date of the donation of the undivided half of the property by the defendant with the date scheduled for the resolution of the appeal and the imminent finality of the sentence,” the complaint states. In addition to the home, Rosa Peral also transferred one of her cars to her father. Specifically, a Mitsubishi Colt Cabrio that Francisco Peral later sold to a resident of Cubelles. Rosa Peral's lawyer, Núria González, asked the court that her client could testify from prison, a request that was denied.
The crime of taking property is punishable by up to four years in prison. The procedure will continue to be investigated and could lead to a trial. In the event of a hypothetical conviction, it would be added to the 25-year sentence that Peral is serving.
Unlike Peral, Albert López, sentenced to 20 years for the same acts, did make available to the court the apartment he owned in Badalona, which will be auctioned in the coming months.
Since she was arrested in May 2017 for the crime of her boyfriend, Pedro Rodríguez, this is the fourth criminal court case that has been opened against Rosa Peral. The first was the murder of her boyfriend along with her lover, Albert López, for which both were sentenced to 25 and 20 years in prison respectively. The Barcelona Court considered that both drew up a plan to end Pedro Rodríguez's life and get back together. "It was a macabre test of love," as the prosecutor, Félix Martín, maintained during the trial. The motive for the crime was to get rid of Pedro, resume the relationship with Albert, hang the death on her ex-husband and keep custody of her two daughters.
While this crime was being investigated, when searching through the past of the two convicts, the justice system came across an unresolved incident in which Peral and López had been involved: the death of a homeless man on Montjuic Mountain in April 2014. The court reopened the case, summoning the two former urban guards to testify as defendants, but in the end the case did not progress and was archived.
Later, a court in El Vendrell charged her with wanting to hire a hitman from prison to kill her ex-husband. The court summoned the inmates with whom Peral had supposedly tried to contact a hitman to testify, but the case became her word against his and also ended in nothing.
