Puente Romano and the Marbella Club

The Marbella judge responsible for the Hidalgo money laundering case, Manuel Martín Hernández-Carrillo, has interviewed another five suspects, among them two directors of Marbella’s main hotel group. They are all accused of money laundering and tax fraud, pointed out court sources at the end of last week.
Among the five who appeared before the judge last week were the finance director of the group that owns both the Puente Romano and the Marbella Club, the manager of one of these two hotels, a tax consultant connected with the group and a former public notary, explained the same sources. The fifth new Hidalgo suspect is the lawyer Juan Germán Hoffmann, who also faces charges in the Malaya corruption case. Hoffmann, the son of the founder of the Marbella German school of the same name, apparently has links with some of the foreign connections that allegedly laundered money through the Cruz Conde law firm, at the centre of the Hidalgo investigation.