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Her hometown in Galicia honored her this week for her dignity, her endurance and her quiet struggle to clear her name. A case which shocked Spain and took a life Rocío Wanninkhof was just 19 when she vanished in 1999 from the Costa del Sol town of Mijas, a place where village routines were beginning to collide with growing international …

Former Orihuela mayor Monica Lorente has been sentenced to a four-month prison term, and is disqualified from holding any public office for a period of 20 months, over the awarding of an illegal refuse contract in 2007. Lorente served as mayor of the municipality from 2007 to 2011. She won’t go to jail because this was her first offense with …

In a nationwide raid against an international criminal ring, Black Axe, the Policia Nacional arrested 34 individuals. The arrests, carried out in conjunction with Europol, focused on allegations of fraud and money laundering as well as document forgery. Black Axe began in Nigeria, as a student-confraternity during the late 1970s. The group has strict code of conduct and practices spirituality, …

The Spanish government and its Roman Catholic Bishops have reached an agreement on how to compensate victims who were sexually abused by clergymen who died or whose crimes may have been prohibited. The agreement is intended to settle discrepancies that exist between the church and the government regarding the reparations of abuse victims. In a press release, the Spanish Episcopal …

A British man was arrested in southern Costa Blanca on charges of sexual assault committed between 2014 and 2015 in the UK. The Policia Nacional said the fugitive had been given a maximum sentence of life imprisonment- presumably after a trial held ‘in absentia’. Unnamed 41 year old was arrested in San Fulgencio, a municipality that is home to many …

A BULLET-RIDDEN physique of a British man was found in an Orihuela Costa property earlier than Christmas. Particulars have solely simply been made public over the taking pictures of a 29-year-old Brit on the Lomas de Cabo Roig urbanisation. The Orihuela Policia Native went to the house at round 9pm on December 21. READ MORE: GUARDIA CIVIL PROBE They’d been …

TWO individuals are going through animal abuse prices after dumping an alligator right into a Castilla-La Mancha area reservoir. The unique animal- often called a caiman caiman-is native to South America and is an endangered species. It was captured on the Almansa reservoir within the Albacete space on July 9 however particulars had been solely made public on Monday. READ …

A WOMAN was carted off a aircraft at Madrid airport after stealing a coat from a conveyor belt tray at safety management. Passengers who had boarded an Iberia flight to Palma de Mallorca witnessed Guardia Civil officers strolling down the aisle on the lookout for the thief. The travellers had gone by safety at round 5pm on Friday, leaving their …

FIVE folks have been arrested throughout Spain for defrauding the Tax Company out of €300 million in VAT inside the hydrocarbons sector. It’s one of many largest VAT scams ever uncovered within the nation. The Tax Company uncovered a ‘huge and sophisticated’ construction made up of as much as 38 corporations designed to defraud them out of VAT and to …

This text was first printed on November 28, 2023 MARBELLA has grow to be a prostitution hotspot after a authorized loophole lets pimps function out of unassuming residences.  Within the centre of Marbella, individuals discover the previous city, get pleasure from cocktails and sunbathe on the seashore, however little do they know they might be proper subsequent to a brothel. …