Last week I watched a podcast interview with a guy named Juan Faro. People know him as a Spanish ex-cop turned influencer who spent years raffling luxury cars (Ferraris, Lamborghinis) for ten euros a ticket. He was arrested. Thrown into pre-trial detention. All his accounts blocked. Passport confiscated. Almost everything he owned was seized.
He spent 101 days in a cell. No conviction. No trial. No firm charges. Classified as a “flight risk,” partly because he was planning to move his tax residence to Dubai, something thousands of people do legally every year.
He walked out free. They gave him his things back. The presumption of innocence, intact on paper. His life, no longer.
His particular case has shadows. Dinners with people on police records for drug trafficking, which he himself acknowledges. I’m not here to judge the man, defend him, or turn him into a martyr. What interests me about his story is not Juan Faro.
It’s what his story exposes about what you and I, with extraordinary li…
