Overview
- The Juzgado de Instrucción Nº 2 de Lugo issued the provisional dismissal on December 23, 2025, with the decision reported publicly on December 29.
- The order covers the lottery shop owner and two others after prosecutors said there were not enough indications to prove simulated crime, fraud, or robbery with violence and intimidation.
- Neither the Fiscalía nor any private accusers filed an indictment, and the ruling can still be challenged through the available appeals.
- The probe began after the shop owner reported on January 4, 2024, that two masked assailants took about €400,000 from safes at his premises on Lugo’s Lamas de Prado street.
- The case had already been closed once in April 2024, then shifted in June 2024 with arrests of a man and a woman in Madrid and the subsequent detention of the shop owner, developments that ultimately did not yield a viable accusation.