Key legal question
Whether the land acquisition financing constituted an acquisition subject to LAFE authorization.
Extracted holding
The lower authorities had not sufficiently investigated whether the foreign financing and repayment structure created a position analogous to ownership and therefore required authorization.
Extracted reasoning
Because the debt had been reduced between the earlier and later transactions, the real foreign financing may have exceeded two-thirds of the purchase price; under Arts. 4 and 22 LAFE, the authorities had to clarify the source of funds and the dependence created by the financing.