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ESTEPONA’S mayor under fire could be headed behind bars, after prosecutors asked for a five-and a-half-year jail sentence over allegations that he misappropriated government money. Jose Garcia Urbano has been a major player in the conservative Partido Popular since 2011, but he is now under fire for allegedly slipping thousands of euros in public funds to a former girlfriend. Marbella’s …

After investigators discovered alleged links with a narco group that used corrupt police to smuggle illegal drugs into Spain, a probe into dodgy Covid contract in Andalucia turned into a full-blown storm of corruption.  The mayor of Fines Rodrigo Sanchez and Javier Aureliano Garcia of the Almeria Provincial Council, as well as its vice-president Fernando Gimenez, were arrested last week …