Former Director of Spanish Elder Care Home Sentenced to Over Two Years for Fraud

A former director of a residential care home in the province of Córdoba, Andalusia, has been sentenced to two years and two months in prison for multiple fraud offences. The court found she concealed the death of a resident in January 2021 to prevent the suspension of her pension payments, siphoned more than €100,000 from Social Security benefits, and operated an illegal scheme selling unregistered nursing‑home places between 2013 and 2022, unlawfully extracting about €140,637.

In addition to the custodial term, she has been barred from working in the senior‑care sector for five years, ordered to compensate the affected institutions—including the Fundació Sant Joan de Déu de Lucena and Banco Santander—and received a split sentence of one year and nine months for fraud and five months for Social Security fraud.