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All blog posts from November 2008

Colombian and Spanish members of a drug trafficking gang have been arrested in Elche

Posted November 29, 2008
23 members of a drug trafficking gang have been arrested in Elche. Those arrested are Colombian and Spanish and all residents of Elche and Santa Pola. The police found the drugs hidden in cartons of wine which had been brought to Spain from Colombia on regular drug runs.24 kilos of cocaine, 4.4 kilo…

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Sales of holiday homes on the Costa del Sol have plummeted in the last year, down 89 per cent.

Posted November 29, 2008
Only 2,500 properties for residential tourists have been sold this year |Sales of holiday homes on the Costa del Sol have plummeted in the last year, down 89 per cent. In fact we have to go back 25 years to find figures similar to this year?s thanks to the economic crisis that is affecting not just …

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Jose Oliveira e Costa, Former chief of Spain's BPN bank Banco Portugal de Negocios (BPN) between 1997 and early 2008, was arrested

Posted November 29, 2008
Jose Oliveira e Costa, Former chief of Spain's BPN bank Banco Portugal de Negocios (BPN) between 1997 and early 2008, was arrested Thursday on charges of suspected tax fraud, money laundering, forgery, abuse of credit and illegal gains. Portuguese judicial authorities have detained the former presid…

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Captain of a Spanish fishing trawler arrested off the Co Cork coast has lost a High Court bid to stop his trial on charges alleging obstruction

Posted November 29, 2008
Captain of a Spanish fishing trawler arrested off the Co Cork coast has lost a High Court bid to stop his trial on charges alleging obstruction of fisheries protection officers by allegedly cutting nets to release the boat's catch into the sea after the vessel was boarded.The case centred on whether…

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Police operation was mounted to smash an international organised crime ring based on the Costa del Sol

Posted November 29, 2008
police operation was mounted to smash an international organised crime ring based on the Costa del Sol.300 officers swooped on 21 addresses in Tile Hill, Canley, Stoke, Brandon Marsh and Balsall Common yesterday morning in what police said was an "unprecedented" operation.Twenty people aged between …

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Scam estimated to have netted the gang more than €65 million euros

Posted November 29, 2008
Judge at Fuengirola court has indicted twenty individuals of different nationalities with conspiring to defraud around 200, mostly British, foreign property investors in a scam estimated to have netted the gang more than €65 million euros. They are accused of selling shares in fictitious constructio…

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European Commission said Thursday that it is pursuing legal action against Spain over three breaches of European Union (EU) environmental law.

Posted November 29, 2008
European Commission said Thursday that it is pursuing legal action against Spain over three breaches of European Union (EU) environmental law. Two of the breaches relate to obligations for the treatment of waste water, with more than 400 towns and cities listed as not having water treatment up to EU…

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Spanish and British journalists kidnapped in northern Somalia refused a police escort and arranged for their own security through their translators,

Posted November 29, 2008
Spanish and British journalists kidnapped in northern Somalia refused a police escort and arranged for their own security through their translators, who are suspected of having abducted them, officials said on Thursday.
Spanish freelance photographer José Cendón and British journalist Colin Freeman, …

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Sotogrande 600 kilos of hashish hidden in petrol cans

Posted November 29, 2008
National Police has been involved 600 kilograms of hashish hidden in cans of petrol in a pleasure boat moored Dutch flag in the marina of Sotogrande, Cadiz who had as the final destination Palma. Three people have been arrested as alleged perpetrators of a crime against public health. Praise arreste…

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Sotogrande 600 kilos of hashish hidden in petrol cans

Posted November 29, 2008
National Police has been involved 600 kilograms of hashish hidden in cans of petrol in a pleasure boat moored Dutch flag in the marina of Sotogrande, Cadiz who had as the final destination Palma. Three people have been arrested as alleged perpetrators of a crime against public health. Praise arreste…

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Sotogrande 600 kilos of hashish hidden in petrol cans

Posted November 29, 2008
National Police has been involved 600 kilograms of hashish hidden in cans of petrol in a pleasure boat moored Dutch flag in the marina of Sotogrande, Cadiz who had as the final destination Palma. Three people have been arrested as alleged perpetrators of a crime against public health. Praise arreste…

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40 year old man who was seriously injured when attacked with a baseball bat

Posted November 28, 2008
40 year old man who was seriously injured when attacked with a baseball bat while taking a walk on the El Postuguet beach in the city, has died in the Alicante General Hospital.The emergency services were called to the scene of the aggression at 7,15am on Wednesday morning.

40 year old man who was seriously injured when attacked with a baseball bat

Posted November 28, 2008
40 year old man who was seriously injured when attacked with a baseball bat while taking a walk on the El Postuguet beach in the city, has died in the Alicante General Hospital.The emergency services were called to the scene of the aggression at 7,15am on Wednesday morning.

40 year old man who was seriously injured when attacked with a baseball bat

Posted November 28, 2008
40 year old man who was seriously injured when attacked with a baseball bat while taking a walk on the El Postuguet beach in the city, has died in the Alicante General Hospital.The emergency services were called to the scene of the aggression at 7,15am on Wednesday morning.

Advertising on Spanish channels regularly breaks the 12 minute per hour limit fixed by European legislation

Posted November 28, 2008
The European Commission has decided to take Spain to the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg for not taking measures to stop the amount of advertising shown on TV screens here. Advertising on Spanish channels regularly breaks the 12 minute per hour limit fixed by European legislation, often by s…

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Fifth largest real estate company in Spain, Habitat, has filed for bankruptcy protection. Habitat has a reported debt of 2.3 billion €.

Posted November 28, 2008
fifth largest real estate company in Spain, Habitat, has filed for bankruptcy protection. Habitat has a reported debt of 2.3 billion €.
The company is thought to have over-extended itself when it purchased Ferrovial Inmobiliaria, before the real estate bubble burst, and can no longer sustain such …

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Costa del Sol real estate scam 200 Brits affected

Posted November 28, 2008
Several searches of real estate companies were carried out in Fuengirola and Mijas yesterday in connection with an alleged fraud which is thought to have affected hundreds of British citizens.The scam consisted in offering investment in what turned out to be false construction projects on the Costa …

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Costa del Sol real estate scam 200 Brits affected

Posted November 28, 2008
Several searches of real estate companies were carried out in Fuengirola and Mijas yesterday in connection with an alleged fraud which is thought to have affected hundreds of British citizens.The scam consisted in offering investment in what turned out to be false construction projects on the Costa …

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Costa del Sol real estate scam 200 Brits affected

Posted November 28, 2008
Several searches of real estate companies were carried out in Fuengirola and Mijas yesterday in connection with an alleged fraud which is thought to have affected hundreds of British citizens.The scam consisted in offering investment in what turned out to be false construction projects on the Costa …

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Arrested for trying to con his parents out of €30,000

Posted November 26, 2008
young man from Murcia has been arrested for trying to con his parents out of €30,000 euros in ransom money by pretending to have been kidnapped. It seems that the man was detained after police traced a call he had made to his parents to inform them of the time and place they were to leave the money,…

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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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flamenco dancer Juan Manuel Fernández Montoya, known as ‘Farruquito’, is a free man after completing his three year prison sentence for a fatal hit an

Posted January 15, 2010
flamenco dancer Juan Manuel Fernández Montoya, known as ‘Farruquito’, is a free man after completing his three year prison sentence for a fatal hit and run in 2003. Montoya had been out on parole since January last year, after completing two thirds of his sentence and spending the previous s…

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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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Free Sex on the Net

Posted January 15, 2010
un-named woman resident in the Cartagena district has been taken into Civil Guard custody for advertising an offer of free sex on the Internet, but giving the contact details of a rival.La Opinión de Murcia said she published the telephone number and even the full address of her enemy, a woman who h…

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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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