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SPAIN’s left-wing PSOE, the ruling party in government, faces fresh scrutiny after investigators found that Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s former right-hand man racked up €95,000 in unaccounted personal expenses while in office. Jose Luis Abalos was arrested last November on charges of corruption. He is accused of receiving kickbacks for private companies awarded contracts by the state during the pandemic. …

Do you feel secure in Spain? The answer you give will probably depend on where you live – and fresh crime data from the National Statistics Institute (INE) has shone a light on a startling disparity between the country’s cities. Taking the unwanted crown for most dangerous city is – perhaps unsurprisingly – Barcelona, a thriving metropolis known as much …

SPAIN’s housing boom is not slowing down. According to a research report by a major real estate agency, property prices in the country are expected to increase by more than 7% between 2025 and 2050. According to Barcelona-based company Donpiso, the average value of a home is set to tip over €1,900 per square metre for the very first time …

DOZENS of small investors in Spain were conned out of €7.7 million via a bogus crowdfunding scheme between 2022 and 2024. Six people have been arrested by the Policia Nacional in A Coruña and Madrid.. A dozen bank accounts have been blocked as well as the seizure of a property worth €60,000. READ MORE POLICIA NACIONAL PROBE Advertisements were placed …

The Policia Nacional arrested a gang based in COSTA del Sol with British, Irish and Spanish members who exported marijuana hidden inside animal feed pallets. Since 2019, the crew may have smuggled as much as three tons of pot into Ireland. The Policia Nacional conducted 12 raids simultaneously, resulting in the arrest of 13 people. READ MORE The number of …

Adam Husicka Construction on Barcelona’s iconic Basilica continues. Its height has now reached 155.58 meters, narrowly edging the previous tallest building in the city, the Torre Mapfre, and Hotel Arts which both stand at 154 metres.  Since the 1992 Olympic boom, these twin skyscrapers have dominated the skyline. Designed by Antoni Gaudí and under construction since 1882, the Sagrada Familia …

ONE of Spain’s ‘Most Wanted’ criminals has been arrested- just days before the statute of limitations kicked in on July 31- after hiding in a Madrid area shed for five years, without the owners knowing he was there. Alvaro PasquIn Mora, 32, was nicknamed as the ‘tattoo fugitive’ due to the large amount of ink on his body. He was …

AUTHORITIES have smashed a drug-trafficking gang that hired ‘mules’ to collect cocaine shipments from Madrid airport. The criminals paid vulnerable people up €10,000 each and gave them a low-cost plane ticket to access the airport’s luggage area. The ‘mules’ would then pick up suitcases crammed with drugs off conveyor belts and pass them onto waiting gang members outside the airport. …

The former Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti, who failed to declare income derived from image rights, was sentenced to an year in prison on charges of tax fraud. Ancelotti was found guilty in 2014 of a fraud charge that dated back to his first stint as Real coach. This is the first time that a nonviolent crime has been sentenced …

Xabi Alonso, the Spaniard who signed a contract for three years on Sunday, has been announced as REAL Madrid’s new manager. The Spanish giants announced that “Xabi Alonso would be the Real Madrid Coach for the next three years, from June 1, 2020, to June 30, 2028.” Alonso (43), returns to the squad where he appeared 236 times from 2009-2014, …