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Costa del Crime

All blog posts from September 2007

Organised criminal gangs from Bulgaria, Colombia and Nigeria are flooding the Costa del Sol with counterfeit Euro notes

Posted September 30, 2007
Organised criminal gangs from Bulgaria, Colombia and Nigeria are flooding the Costa del Sol with counterfeit Euro notes, Spanish media reported Sunday.

Most of the gangs involved are from these three countries, according to the head of the Financial Crime section of the UDEV specialist police unit, J…

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Organised criminal gangs from Bulgaria, Colombia and Nigeria are flooding the Costa del Sol with counterfeit Euro notes

Posted September 30, 2007
Organised criminal gangs from Bulgaria, Colombia and Nigeria are flooding the Costa del Sol with counterfeit Euro notes, Spanish media reported Sunday.

Most of the gangs involved are from these three countries, according to the head of the Financial Crime section of the UDEV specialist police unit, J…

Read more

Organised criminal gangs from Bulgaria, Colombia and Nigeria are flooding the Costa del Sol with counterfeit Euro notes

Posted September 30, 2007
Organised criminal gangs from Bulgaria, Colombia and Nigeria are flooding the Costa del Sol with counterfeit Euro notes, Spanish media reported Sunday.

Most of the gangs involved are from these three countries, according to the head of the Financial Crime section of the UDEV specialist police unit, J…

Read more

: "Britain has become the Costa del Crime for foreign criminals who lose themselves in Britain knowing that they are unlikely to be deported when conv

Posted September 29, 2007
"Britain has become the Costa del Crime for foreign criminals who lose themselves in Britain knowing that they are unlikely to be deported when convicted of serious crime."

: "Britain has become the Costa del Crime for foreign criminals who lose themselves in Britain knowing that they are unlikely to be deported when conv

Posted September 29, 2007
"Britain has become the Costa del Crime for foreign criminals who lose themselves in Britain knowing that they are unlikely to be deported when convicted of serious crime."

: "Britain has become the Costa del Crime for foreign criminals who lose themselves in Britain knowing that they are unlikely to be deported when conv

Posted September 29, 2007
"Britain has become the Costa del Crime for foreign criminals who lose themselves in Britain knowing that they are unlikely to be deported when convicted of serious crime."

Spain was also named the worst country for overseas credit-card theft

Posted September 29, 2007
The Spanish authorities have warned that you should also be alert to the availability and possible use of 'date rape' and other drugs, including 'GBH' and liquid ecstasy," the Foreign Office says on its website. "You should purchase your own drinks and keep sight of them at all times to make sure th…

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Spain was also named the worst country for overseas credit-card theft

Posted September 29, 2007
The Spanish authorities have warned that you should also be alert to the availability and possible use of 'date rape' and other drugs, including 'GBH' and liquid ecstasy," the Foreign Office says on its website. "You should purchase your own drinks and keep sight of them at all times to make sure th…

Read more

Spain was also named the worst country for overseas credit-card theft

Posted September 29, 2007
The Spanish authorities have warned that you should also be alert to the availability and possible use of 'date rape' and other drugs, including 'GBH' and liquid ecstasy," the Foreign Office says on its website. "You should purchase your own drinks and keep sight of them at all times to make sure th…

Read more

The increasing number of violent assaults in Benidorm has set back attempts by the Spanish resort to attract a more upmarket clientele.

Posted September 29, 2007
This week a British holidaymaker was paralysed and his friend left unconscious after a fight outside a nightclub in the so-called British quarter.

James Edward and Mark Bell, both 20, were found unconscious following the street brawl with a 20-strong gang in the early hours of the morning. Mr Edward…

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The increasing number of violent assaults in Benidorm has set back attempts by the Spanish resort to attract a more upmarket clientele.

Posted September 29, 2007
This week a British holidaymaker was paralysed and his friend left unconscious after a fight outside a nightclub in the so-called British quarter.

James Edward and Mark Bell, both 20, were found uncs tourism manager, hoped to lure a different type of traveller by focusing on the wide range of attrac…

Read more

The increasing number of violent assaults in Benidorm has set back attempts by the Spanish resort to attract a more upmarket clientele.

Posted September 29, 2007
This week a British holidaymaker was paralysed and his friend left unconscious after a fight outside a nightclub in the so-called British quarter.

James Edward and Mark Bell, both 20, were found uncs tourism manager, hoped to lure a different type of traveller by focusing on the wide range of attrac…

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Ronnie Knight

Posted September 29, 2007
Once the UK’s most wanted man, Ronnie Knight was imprisoned for his part in the 1983 London Security Express heist of £7 million (£26 million today). Married for years to TV star Barbara Windsor, he divided his time between the celebrity party circuit in London and exile in the sun-drenched, luxurio…

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Ronnie Knight

Posted September 29, 2007
Once the UK’s most wanted man, Ronnie Knight was imprisoned for his part in the 1983 London Security Express heist of £7 million (£26 million today). Married for years to TV star Barbara Windsor, he divided his time between the celebrity party circuit in London and exile in the sun-drenched, luxurio…

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Ronnie Knight

Posted September 29, 2007
Once the UK’s most wanted man, Ronnie Knight was imprisoned for his part in the 1983 London Security Express heist of £7 million (£26 million today). Married for years to TV star Barbara Windsor, he divided his time between the celebrity party circuit in London and exile in the sun-drenched, luxurio…

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MANCHESTER computer expert has told of his terror after he was gunned down in a gangland-style shooting in Spain.

Posted September 29, 2007
Mark Stuttard was visiting his sister Karen and her doctor husband at their home on the Costa del Sol when they were targeted by two hitmen.

When we got there I saw two men standing in the parking area talking.

Bangs

"Umberto got out of the car to get my bags from the boot and I got out and was help…

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MANCHESTER computer expert has told of his terror after he was gunned down in a gangland-style shooting in Spain.

Posted September 29, 2007
Mark Stuttard was visiting his sister Karen and her doctor husband at their home on the Costa del Sol when they were targeted by two hitmen.

When we got there I saw two men standing in the parking area talking.

Bangs

"Umberto got out of the car to get my bags from the boot and I got out and was help…

Read more

MANCHESTER computer expert has told of his terror after he was gunned down in a gangland-style shooting in Spain.

Posted September 29, 2007
Mark Stuttard was visiting his sister Karen and her doctor husband at their home on the Costa del Sol when they were targeted by two hitmen.

One of the men shot Mr Stuttard's Italian brother-in-law Umberto Borsani twice in the legs at close range as he unloaded suitcases from his car.

The gunman the…

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"It's the new Costa del Crime,"

Posted September 29, 2007
he says, thanks to the numbers of Brits fleeing the law at home for lives of lucrative, beachfront liberty in Thailand. "You see them all there in their singlets and tattoos. It's a perfect place for them. What the Thais must think of British people I have no idea."

Pattaya gained its reputation as …

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"It's the new Costa del Crime,"

Posted September 29, 2007
he says, thanks to the numbers of Brits fleeing the law at home for lives of lucrative, beachfrs a perfect place for them. What the Thais must think of British people I have no idea."

Pattaya gained its reputation as a place where sex was for sale during the Vietnam war when US servicemen would come…

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sacking of Juan Antonio Roca from his post as Municipal Real Estate Assessor at Marbella Town Hall was justified

Posted January 15, 2010
judge in Social Court 11 in Málaga has ruled that the sacking of Juan Antonio Roca from his post as Municipal Real Estate Assessor at Marbella Town Hall was justified, and that the man who is at the centre of the Malaya corruption allegations has no right to his job back or any compensation…

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Posted January 15, 2010
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Eighteen people have been arrested across Spain for the illegal online sale of protected species

Posted January 15, 2010
Eighteen people have been arrested across Spain for the illegal online sale of protected species, in a Civil Guard operation which began with an investigation into an Iberian Wolf which had been put up for sale on the Web.Dubbed ‘Operation Lobezno’ – ‘Wolf Cub’, a number of exotic animals have been …

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Posted January 15, 2010
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Málaga woman has accepted a one year sentence for assaulting her son’s teacher

Posted January 15, 2010
Málaga woman has accepted a one year sentence for assaulting her son’s teacher during an incident at the child’s school in the Palma-Palmilla district of the city. It happened in the first week of the new school year in 2007, when the mother hit the teacher and threw her onto the floor in front of o…

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counterfeit Osborne black bull

Posted January 15, 2010
National Police have broken up a network which was importing counterfeit items using the famous Osborne black bull logo from SE Asia, mostly China and Thailand.26,478 articles were recovered in total during the operation which was carried in warehouses in the provinces of Madrid, Crevillente…

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Juan Antonio Roca.The court considered that his situation was worsening and that with the news that he could have money stored abroad

Posted January 15, 2010
The Provincial Court in Málaga has once again denied an application for bail from the man at the centre of the Malaya and Saqueo corruption cases in Marbella, the ex municipal real estate assessor, Juan Antonio Roca.The court considered that his situation was worsening and that with the news…

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mystery surrounding the murder of former Polop mayor Alexander Ponsoda

Posted January 14, 2010
After following countless unsuccessful lines of enquiry officers from Guardia Civil think that they have finally uncovered the mystery surrounding the murder of former Polop mayor Alexander Ponsoda after they apprehended a man in Alfaz on a totally unrelated issue. The secrecy surrounding the case w…

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Piers Morgan’s long awaited documentary finally aired on ITV.

Posted January 14, 2010

So Morgan on Marbella wasn’t the horror show that we were all dreading, and at the end we had the sneaking suspicion that Piers had perhaps fallen a little in love with the town. “Marbella, whatever tickles your fancy” he summed up “has it all!”


Marbella was glued to its TV screens when Pi…

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80,000 cars were stolen throughout Spain last year, and almost 14,000 of those were from Alicante.

Posted January 13, 2010
Almost forty cars are stolen every day in the Alicante region, according to official papers, making the coastal city top of the league table when it comes to car thefts in Spain. That surpasses such cities as Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia for the rate at which the cars are being nabbed.The figures,…

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