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A Costa Rican business owner yesterday took possession of a 150-square-meter lot he recently purchased that is part of the San José Municipality building. Guillermo Sanabria told journalists he is the “new owner” of the lot, which is part of the municipality’s parking lot. He plans to build a new office building on the space.

Sanabria said he bought the lot a few weeks ago for $50,000 from a man identified by the last name Rigg after double-checking that the property was properly registered. The legal advisor to the San José municipality, Rafael Arias, said that because of an “administrative error” the lot was not in the municipality’s name and that the municipality plans to appeal Sanabria’s purchase. “The lot was purchased by the municipality,” Arias said. “We could be facing a fraudulent situation.”

-ACAN-EFE

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