Riviera Invest company five directors were trying to escape on a private jet to Morocco.

The five directors of a real estate company in Alicante, Riviera Invest, have been arrested in connection with an alleged fraud which is thought to have affected between 600 and 1,000 clients.The arrests were carried out by the Economic Crimes Unit of the Judicial Police on the orders of the National Court judge, Santiago Pedraz, and took place at Alicante airport when the five directors were trying to escape on a private jet to Morocco.
Among those detained, the chairman of the company, Claude Roch, a well known businessman in the Benidorm area. The five were taken to the main police station in Alicante, and will appear in court shortly and the possibility of more arrests in the case has not been ruled out.Several clients of Riviera Invest across many Spanish provinces had complained that they had never received the 6 or 7% income promised to them by the company derived from the rental of property they had purchased.