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All blog posts from May 2008

Tim O’Toole was arrested in Marbella as the gang prepared to transfer the shipment, originally from Venezuela, to speed boats off the coast of Spain

Posted June 1, 2008
Timothy O’Toole was jailed for 15 years for trying to ship four tons of cocaine worth £225million. He was at the centre of Europe’s biggest drug trafficking organisation, operating in Britain and Spain. But undercover customs infiltrated the network so deeply they crewed the boat that made the massi…

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Tim O’Toole was arrested in Marbella as the gang prepared to transfer the shipment, originally from Venezuela, to speed boats off the coast of Spain

Posted June 1, 2008
Timothy O’Toole was jailed for 15 years for trying to ship four tons of cocaine worth £225million. He was at the centre of Europe’s biggest drug trafficking organisation, operating in Britain and Spain. But undercover customs infiltrated the network so deeply they crewed the boat that made the massi…

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Tim O’Toole was arrested in Marbella as the gang prepared to transfer the shipment, originally from Venezuela, to speed boats off the coast of Spain

Posted June 1, 2008
Timothy O’Toole was jailed for 15 years for trying to ship four tons of cocaine worth £225million. He was at the centre of Europe’s biggest drug trafficking organisation, operating in Britain and Spain. But undercover customs infiltrated the network so deeply they crewed the boat that made the massi…

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Spanish lawyer G.J.S., admitted that Malaga public auctions are controlled by ‘mafia-type’ criminal rings

Posted June 1, 2008
Spanish lawyer admitted that public auctions conducted throughout
the Province of Malaga, Spain are controlled by ‘mafia-type’ criminal rings.
The grip on the so-called ‘public’ auction of properties is such that no outsiders, whether in business or as individuals can get near the gavel’s fall. …

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Russian sailors arrested near the city of Huelva

Posted June 1, 2008
Fifteen Russian sailors have been arrested in the southwest of Spain on suspicion of being involved in drug trafficking, a Spanish Civil Guard official said on Friday.
"The Russian sailors were arrested near the city of Huelva two weeks ago during a large-scale police operation, alThe extent of the …

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Russian sailors arrested near the city of Huelva

Posted June 1, 2008
Fifteen Russian sailors have been arrested in the southwest of Spain on suspicion of being involved in drug trafficking, a Spanish Civil Guard official said on Friday.
"The Russian sailors were arrested near the city of Huelva two weeks ago during a large-scale police operation, along with 29 indivi…

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Russian sailors arrested near the city of Huelva

Posted June 1, 2008
Fifteen Russian sailors have been arrested in the southwest of Spain on suspicion of being involved in drug trafficking, a Spanish Civil Guard official said on Friday.
"The Russian sailors were arrested near the city of Huelva two weeks ago during a large-scale police operation, alThe extent of the …

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Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo employee kidnapped

Posted June 1, 2008
Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo employee belonging to one of the Orihuela costa offices, the one located at Cabo Roig, was kept kidnapped by some criminals for more than ten hours. The criminals accosted her as she was on her way to work, and she was taken into a van to San Javier surrounding area …

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Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo employee kidnapped

Posted June 1, 2008
Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo employee belonging to one of the Orihuela costa offices, the one located at Cabo Roig, was kept kidnapped by some criminals for more than ten hours. The criminals accosted her as she was on her way to work, and she was taken into a van to San Javier surrounding area …

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Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo employee kidnapped

Posted June 1, 2008
Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo employee belonging to one of the Orihuela costa offices, the one located at Cabo Roig, was kept kidnapped by some criminals for more than ten hours. The criminals accosted her as she was on her way to work, and she was taken into a van to San Javier surrounding area …

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David Hibbs-Turner mastermind behind one of Merseyside’s biggest ever drug rings had a home in Marbella

Posted June 1, 2008
mastermind behind one of Merseyside’s biggest ever drug rings was arrested by police as he played five-a-side football with his trusted gang.While having a knockabout at Walton Hall sports centre, Fazakerley gangster David Hibbs-Turner kept six mobile phones hidden in his sports kit, ready t…

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David Geering computers were traced to an internet cafe in London’s Victoria district, an address in Hertfordshire and a property in Spain.

Posted June 1, 2008
David Geering, 48, had been a detective with the Metropolitan Police’s Homicide and Serious Crime Command. But all the time he was a child sex pervert trading hundreds of vile images with other sickos. A number of photos featured the most extreme kind of child abuse.Geering was found to have taken i…

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Richard Davison is currently on bail in Spain where he is facing drug smuggling charges.

Posted June 1, 2008
‘Uncatchable’ boats…that’s been the claim made against British manufacturer Crompton Marine with its two principals, Richard Davison, 39, and Ellen George, 41, now facing court in Ipswich, UK. The court was told that Crompton Marine had built an enviable reputation for its production of high…

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Italian man with alleged links to the Calabrian Mafia, the 'Ndrangheta, was arrested in Spain

Posted June 1, 2008
An Italian man with alleged links to the Calabrian Mafia, the 'Ndrangheta, was arrested in Spain on Thursday carrying four kilogrammes of cocaine worth an estimated 600,000 euros.Citing police sources, Spanish media reports said the man, identified only as Giuseppe F. was arrested by police in the c…

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Italian man with alleged links to the Calabrian Mafia, the 'Ndrangheta, was arrested in Spain

Posted June 1, 2008
An Italian man with alleged links to the Calabrian Mafia, the 'Ndrangheta, was arrested in Spain on Thursday carrying four kilogrammes of cocaine worth an estimated 600,000 euros.Citing police sources, Spanish media reports said the man, identified only as Giuseppe F. was arrested by police in the c…

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Italian man with alleged links to the Calabrian Mafia, the 'Ndrangheta, was arrested in Spain

Posted June 1, 2008
An Italian man with alleged links to the Calabrian Mafia, the 'Ndrangheta, was arrested in Spain on Thursday carrying four kilogrammes of cocaine worth an estimated 600,000 euros.Citing police sources, Spanish media reports said the man, identified only as Giuseppe F. was arrested by police in the c…

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Factory fire kills 55 in Morocco

Posted June 1, 2008
fire roared through a mattress factory yesterday, killing 55 people and injuring a dozen others, the official news agency reported. Most of the deaths occurred on the building's third floor where women sew, according to a worker who escaped.
Rachida Darif, 29, said she saved herself by crawling thro…

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Factory fire kills 55 in Morocco

Posted June 1, 2008
fire roared through a mattress factory yesterday, killing 55 people and injuring a dozen others, the official news agency reported. Most of the deaths occurred on the building's third floor where women sew, according to a worker who escaped.
Rachida Darif, 29, said she saved herself by crawling thro…

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Factory fire kills 55 in Morocco

Posted June 1, 2008
fire roared through a mattress factory yesterday, killing 55 people and injuring a dozen others, the official news agency reported. Most of the deaths occurred on the building's third floor where women sew, according to a worker who escaped.
Rachida Darif, 29, said she saved herself by crawling thro…

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Eastern European criminal gang recovered jewellery is to be placed on show in the Altea Civil Guard barracks

Posted June 1, 2008
Civil Guard in Altea has broken up a criminal gang made up mostly of people from Eastern Europe which has been robbing homes in the provinces of Alicante and Albacete.Those arrested are six men and a woman, aged between 26 and 45 who were living in Altea, Alfaz del Pí and La Nucía. Their nationaliti…

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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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