Justice Disarms Bbva’s Strategy to Avoid Returning Mortgage Costs

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Two recent judgments of Provincial Courts (in Oviedo and Valladolid) have rejected the appeals filed by BBVA and have confirmed that the entity must return money to customers to whom abusive clauses were applied in their mortgages. The courts not only maintain the nullity of those clauses, but also force the bank to bear the costs of the proceedings. In both cases, the bank’s strategy was similar. It was to accept the nullity of the clause, but …