Everyone knows that Amancio Ortega, majority shareholder of Inditex, is the richest man in our country. What many do not know is that on that list, right behind him is his daughter Sandra Ortega.
Well, Sandra Ortega faces the five financial entities that once lent money to the hotel company Room Mate. Deutsche Bank, Banca March, Société Générale, Bankinter and Abanca have sued Rosp Corunna, the family office of Amancio Ortega's daughter, through civil proceedings.
They demand that she assume the losses of a loan of 140 million that accumulated in the worst period of Covid-19, when the confinement and closure of establishments were imposed due to the harsh restrictive measures imposed by the government to prevent infections. in pandemic.
At that time, Kike Sarasola's hotel chain entered bankruptcy. The businessman lost control of the firm he had founded to the Angelo Gordon fund and creditors suffered high losses. The five banks, which had lent a total of 140 million euros, demanded to execute the guarantee of Rosp Corunna but the daughter of the founder of Inditex refused and blamed the former CEO of her company, José Leyte, whom she also accused of having forged her signature, since she "was unaware of the agreements." However, the criminal proceedings initiated against him for this incident were archived.
Now that Justice has left the way clear for them, the banks are preparing to recover their loans, through different and separate civil procedures.
Sandra's trust in Leyte was broken a little over three years ago, when the manager was fired. A dismissal that led to other legal proceedings.
One by Sandra Ortega, who accused her former number two of appropriating almost three million euros through the collection of various bonuses and salaries. And another on the part of Leyte, demanding compensation higher than what he received when he was fired, considering it an unfair dismissal.
In the first lawsuit, Ortega's lawsuit failed, although the sentence is not yet final. In the other procedure, in relation to the dismissal, the Social Court number 1 of A Coruña rejected Leyte's petition, although it ended up winning in the Superior Court of Justice of Galicia, which in November 2022 issued a ruling in its favor. .
