As a result of joint operation conducted by police and customs officers in Bilasuvar region of Azerbaijan, 2 011 g of heroin and 14 895.1 g of hashish were confiscated from residents of Barda region of Azerbaijan Ruslan Ibrahimov and Jalil Jabbarov.
Customs office of Astara region of Azerbaijan discovered 251.566 g of heroin in the luggage of Iranian citizens Turkambur Golamreza Ahmadi and Ismayil Mahmoud Amirturani, who traveled from Iran to Azerbaijan by passenger bus.
Officials of the Khacmaz Customs office confiscated 54 bottles of Russian vodka without excise duty stamp from the Russian citizen Svetlana Gamidovna Adilova. The customs officials also detained Russia citizen Sirajudin Saypulaev, who tried to smuggle 9 950 boxes of Marlboro Gold and 1500 boxes of Kent Nanotech cigarettes to Azerbaijan.
Two senior executives at a prominent Gibraltar law firm, brothers Benjamin and Solomon Marrache, appeared before the Magistrates Court yesterday charged with false accounting in respect of E1.8m of client money.The two men were arrested on Tuesday and spent the night in police cells before being ferried to court in a police van. The two Marrache brothers were ushered by police through a side entrance to Central Police station just before 10am and appeared before the magistrate in a crowded courthouse a short while later.Attorney General Ricky Rhoda, appearing for the Crown, urged the magistrate to impose stringent bail conditions for fear that the two men might flee the jurisdiction.Keith Azopardi, the defence lawyer representing the Marrache brothers together with Samantha Sacramento, said there was no risk of them leaving Gibraltar because both were of previous good character and had strong family ties here.Stipendiary Magistrate Charles Pitto granted bail but set tough conditions on each defendant, in the form of two sureties to the value of £300,000 for each brother. The court also set a further financial condition of £150,000 in their own recognizance for each defendant.In simple terms, failure to appear at future court hearings could cost the defendants and their guarantors up to £900,000 in total.Both men also had to hand in their travel documents and agree to reside at their respective family homes, as well as report twice weekly to police.By the end of the day yesterday, a number of persons had stepped up to provide £600,000 in sureties for the release of the two men.At an hour-long hearing in the evening, Mr Pitto questioned the guarantors closely but accepted the sureties. The two brothers were released from custody later that evening.Yesterday’s developments in court were the opening shots in what will undoubtedly develop into a lengthy and complex case.Mr Rhoda said the sums of money involved “could be quite substantial”. He said the two men were currently facing “holding charges” and that more charges could follow at a later stage. The Attorney General also said there could be further arrests as a result of an ongoing police investigation.Earlier this week police raided several commercial and residential properties linked to Marrache & Co and seized documents and computers. Prosecutors allege that in January this year, the brothers falsified documents to conceal a shortfall of E1.8m of funds belonging to a company called Portino Comercio Internacional. One document, a letter signed by Solomon Marrache, purported to show that the money was held by the brothers on the client’s behalf. Another document, a letter signed by Benjamin Marrache, purported to give authority to Natwest bank to transfer the client’s money to a bank in Ireland.But prosecutors said that the Gibraltar bank account supposed to hold the company’s cash in fact had a balance of less than nine Euros and no credit facility.
More demolition orders have been issued in Albox despite confusing statements by the Town Hall and the Mayor, Sr. José GarcíaIn an interview published on the English language Arboleasnow website , Sr. Garcia is reported to have denied the rumour that nine houses are affected, saying that only eight demolition orders have been issued "by the courts".This statement belies the fact that on the 15th December another of our members was issued with an order not by the courts, but by Albox Town Council itself!And on January 20th, the Official Bulletin board carried an instruction to demolish a building on a plot of land near Alcantarilla, Albox. However, the plot referred to has two homes on it as well as an uncompleted structure.We notified the owners and met with the Town Hall Secretary, who agreed to review the case file and advise us whether the order referred to one, or all, of the structures on the plot. In spite of repeated attempts we are still waiting for a response. The owners have only fifteen days to lodge an appeal and are very worried. They need this information from the Town Hall, and they need it now. We have been trying to set up a meeting with Sr. Garcia for three weeks. Having cancelled two previous appointments with us, we are now told we cannot speak to him until the middle of February. This, despite the fact that we represent eight of the affected families.It has been because of delays and lack of communication that the legal process in these cases is so advanced it has resulted in people being deprived of their right to defend themselves.Avoiding difficult questions is not an option for the authorities. In order to solve the problem we need ongoing, open and co-operative dialogue to reach a consensual solution involving public bodies, interested associations and all the political parties.
British Couple Helen and Len Prior have been ordered to be given a temporary home by a judge’s order.Lawyers acting for the couple are claiming compensation from the local council for the loss of their home and also applied for ‘provisional measures’ to house them in a similar property to the one they lost, and it is these measures which the judge has ordered be met. The local council now has to find them a similar property or pay the rent on another one while the case is completed. AUAN, Abusos Urbanisticos Almanzora No, the protest group acting against the demolition of property in the area, reports that Helen and Len have found a suitable property, and are waiting for the council to agree.
The main creditors of the developer are La Caixa, Caja Madrid, Banco Santander, BBVA and Banco Popular, a total of 38 entities. This is not the first real estate company to go into administration. The total debt of real estate companies in administration is over 10,500 million Euros.The president of Habitat, however appears rather optimistic as he announced that “the company will face all their obligations and has enough active capital to confront its debt”.
Polaris World returned to court with their creditors with the debt now owed to the Bank of Valencia by the Murcian constructor estimated to be around 62-million euros and around 100-million euros owed overall. According to the economic newspaper Cinco Días, the principle creditors are Caja Mediterráneo, Bancaja Group y Banco Popular. Polaris World accepted that 15 of its companies, are in a ’state of insolvencia’ and thus the group is seeking to initiate a period of negotiation with their creditors before entering suspension of payments. The insolvency affects four of the urbanizations, two hotels and El Oasis de Alhama commercial centre among others. The debt of the company, that also accounts for some 700 employees, approaches 100 million Euros. In particular,
the court has registered a condition of ‘bankruptcy’ for Polaris World Sports Centre, Polaris Development, Polaris World Development, Polaris World Industrial Machinery Rental, Polaris World Concrete, Polaris World Real Estate, Nicklaus Trail Golf, Valley Resort Golf, Green Property, Riquelme Property, Polaris Tower Hotel, El Oasis de Alhama Commercial Centre, Polaris Oasis City and Alhama Resort Golf. These companies have until 22nd March 2010, to negotiate new terms with their creditors.
It’s still business as usual at Polaris World; the Murcian Government have voiced their support for the complex with the owners and directors are hopeful that new terms can be negotiated to avoid further action and court appearances. Polaris World is known throughout Europe for its golf, football complex, residences and quality hotels and all that can be done shall be, according to the directors and management
Since 2004, more than 1,100 fugitives have been caught, most of them foreigners from Germany, the UK, South America and Eastern Europe, and there are hundreds more cases waiting to be solved. Many of them choose Spain due to the quality of life and the climate. Between 15 and 20 per cent have been solved thanks to the help of the public, leading to the arrests of paedophiles, hired killers, fraudsters, thieves, drugs barons, pimps, Mafiosi, forgers, torturers, war criminals and a long list of others.
body of a 31-year-old Moroccan man was found in the Straits of Gibraltar, some 8.9 miles southeast of Tarifa, Cadiz. Sea Rescue in the town received a call from a ship heading for the Atlantic which had sighted a body floating in the water, and Algeciras Guardia Civil Sea Rescue team and the Salvamar Alkaid Sea Rescue vessel found and retrieved the body some 30 minutes later. The body, which was decomposing, was taken to Tarifa port where the death was certified by a judge and forensic doctor before it was taken to Los Pinos morgue in Algeciras for an autopsy. The man was carrying a work permit in the name of Nouredin Jounamane.
Maria Jose Carrascosa, a Valencia lawyer who was sentenced to 14 years in prison in the USA for taking her daughter out of the country, be set free. Maria Jose married Peter Innes in 1999, and their daughter Victoria was born the following year, however, in 2001, Maria Jose was classed as an abused woman, and in 2004, the couple separated and she returned to Spain with her daughter.
murderer of Sandra Palo, who was released in 2007, continues his trajectory of crime ON the evening of May 17, 2003, 22-year-old Sandra Palo, who was mentally handicapped, was walking home with a friend, also handicapped, after they had missed the last bus home in Madrid. Fate led them to cross paths with four youths in a stolen car, one of them, Rafael Garcia Fernandez, known as Rafita, was just 14, he was in the back of the car, his cousin ‘Malaguita’ was driving, and two other minors, Ramon and Ramoncin were with them. They were looking for some action.
PASSENGER tried to force his way into the cockpit on a Thomson Airways flight from Cardiff to the Canary Islands. Staff and other passengers had to restrain the man, who was arrested at Las Palmas airport, Gran Canaria. A spokeswoman for the airport said the man, a Spaniard from the Canary Islands, was "nervous" and "panicked" during the flight. He was later freed by police.
PAOLO DI MAURO, the 58-year-old head of the Camorra’s Contini clan who was arrested in Casteldelfells (Barcelona) on January 26 after seven years on the run, was the country’s third most wanted man said the Italy’s Interior ministry. Arrested at the same time was 50-year-old Luigi Mocerino, who headed the clan’s international drugs network.
one million Britons living in Spain some 74 per cent revealed that repatriation is now a distinct possibility, according to a study undertaken by Moneycorp.Some 37 per cent of those surveyed admitted that they were already looking into returning to the British Isles.The house market crash has seen the value of homes on the Costa del Sol crash to below 65 per cent their original asking price.“Brits living in Spain are particularly affected by the struggling property market with many owning holiday homes and letting out their Spanish properties.” Add the plummeting pound and limited job opportunities, the survey has fuelled fears that there could be a widespread exodus.“Brits living in Europe are feeling the effects of the weak pound as they are more likely to be reliant on income from their British property, UK pension and other regular sources of funds,” said David Kerns, Head of Private Clients at Moneycorp.“Brits living in Spain are particularly affected by the struggling property market with many owning holiday homes and letting out their Spanish properties.”Meanwhile, the survey also revealed that more than a third of expatriates in Italy, Germany and France are also mulling over moving back to the UK.Kerns added: “Our research shows that British expats have had a tough time and the findings reveal that no country has escaped unharmed from the economic downturn.”The survey interviewed 250 Europe-based UK expatriates and was conducted from October to November 2009.
Public Prosecutor is asking for 16 and a half in prison for a man accused of killing a couple and injuring two motorcyclists in Alicante in February 2008. The private accusation is asking for 30 years in prison, considering that the accused was completely aware of what he was doing. The accused drove 16 kilometres in the wrong direction on the A-70, but told the court that he didn’t intend to kill himself, and had suffered a psychotic episode which drove him to the motorway. However, the doctor who examined him four days after the event ruled that he was completely sane at the time and had confessed he was in a hurry to get to San Vicente and entered the motorway in the wrong direction by mistake.
Denia Judge has sent a young man who allegedly belonged to a gang who perpetrated four attacks against teenagers, stealing their mobile phones and money, to prison on remand without bail. The gang covered their faces with balaclavas and threatened the victims with knives.
DAVID BROOKES, 59, a former Royal Artillery warrant officer and an ex-policeman, was killed by smoke in a fire in the town of Jimena de la Frontera His wife Florence, 58, was found by a passerby in hysterics in the street outside. The fire had already been extinguished when the man entered the house and found the lifeless body of Mr Brookes in a bedroom. Mrs Brookes, originally from Edinburgh, is recovering from severe shock in hospital. But her family did not know about the tragedy until they read about it in a newspaper on Friday, January 8. Mr Brookes' son Paul, 37, said: "It was awful to read this in the paper. It was a dreadful shock’’ "It seems there was a breakdown in communications and the British consulate was not informed about dad's death."
one million Britons living in Spain some 74 per cent revealed that repatriation is now a distinct possibility, according to a study undertaken by Moneycorp.Some 37 per cent of those surveyed admitted that they were already looking into returning to the British Isles.The house market crash has seen the value of homes on the Costa del Sol crash to below 65 per cent their original asking price.
“Brits living in Spain are particularly affected by the struggling property market with many owning holiday homes and letting out their Spanish properties.” Add the plummeting pound and limited job opportunities, the survey has fuelled fears that there could be a widespread exodus. “Brits living in Europe are feeling the effects of the weak pound as they are more likely to be reliant on income from their British property, UK pension and other regular sources of funds,” said David Kerns, Head of Private Clients at Moneycorp. “Brits living in Spain are particularly affected by the struggling property market with many owning holiday homes and letting out their Spanish properties.”
Meanwhile, the survey also revealed that more than a third of expatriates in Italy, Germany and France are also mulling over moving back to the UK.Kerns added: “Our research shows that British expats have had a tough time and the findings reveal that no country has escaped unharmed from the economic downturn.” The survey interviewed 250 Europe-based UK expatriates and was conducted from October to November 2009.
Fernando del Valle was the toast of Marbella community. An aficionado of classical music, he plays a number of instruments proficiently, including the cello. His life was single of luxury, befitting his feelings – designer go as well as, a beautiful villa, the best schools for his children. Now, however, the multilingual Chilean-born lawyer, described by his friends as a ‘devoted nuclear family male’ along with a ‘person of great culture’, is sitting in Alhaurín de la Torre prison, accused of someone the kingpin of Europe’s largest ever wealth-laundering operation fancy his office in the centre of Marbella. Del Valle has strenuously denied any wrongdoing through his lawyer, Francisco Javier Nunez, who has flick accused the authorities of raids more appropriate to terrorism. For his portion, Spain’s public prosecutor, Cándido Conde-Pumpido, has described the resources riches laundering operation as the tip of a vast, unravelling conspiracy as well as ‘tentacles’ spreading to the United Says and clear of, and has claimed del Valle was at its pinnacle. In the past few days, the ripples triggered by the arrest of del Valle and 40 others in connection with ‘Operation White Whale’ have begun to be felt in the UK. Already Conde-Pumpido has accused the British territory of Gibraltar – where del Valle is accused of setting wakeful accounts – of failing to help in the fight against cash laundering, a claim rebutted by the Foreign Office. Spanish keep an eye on sources available to the assessment have also suggested that it is spreading to examine British engagement del Valle’s alleged network, including his employment of a number of foreign citizens, including Britons, in the enterprises – both legitimate given that well as allegedly suspect – he controlled. The Spanish media has reported, too, that the police forces of seven countries, including Britain, France, the US and Russia, are projecting to join their Spanish counterparts in attempting to unravel the full extent of the network, with an investigation into an group of charges from tax evasion and fraud to kidnapping along with murder. And desk bound at the centre of it, allege investigators, is the sweet and enigmatic figure of del Valle. With his thinning but at any rate-groomed hair and his elegant grey suits, del Valle was the picture of the anyhow-heeled corporate lawyer, flourishing in the playground of the international jet set whose yachts populate Marbella’s marinas. But there is another side to Marbella and the Costa del Sol. For 20 living and more, it has been the scene of a massive and largely uncontrolled urban development, a place of massive incidents. It is a neighborhood, too, where dirty money can be invested in the myriad building developments along the coast as at any rate as emerge clean. It was at the beginning of this greenhorn building boom on the Costa del Sol, inside 1979, that a young del Valle arrived after a short-lived period practising in Madrid. According to the Spanish investigation, del Valle’s real business was laundering cash, allegedly helping perchance as many as nine peculiar Mafia groups launder money through property investments via a series of alien ‘trusts’ located in Holland, Gibraltar, the Isle of Man and elsewhere. In the space of 10 existence he had built up one of the best-known practices devoted to the area’s exploding property market, in portion due to his commitment to early starts and hard work. It is this, del Valle will no doubt be manner of speaking, that earned him his wealth. In some respects, DVA (Del Valle Abogados), his company, never hid the fact it was prepared to collection up secret trusts plus act anonymously for investors in the Costa del Sol’s property market. Indeed, in the English-vocabulary version of its website, DVA offers to hold any ‘investment separate from [a] personal estate or fit it in anonymity. This bid for a “agree with” structure whereby the name of the beneficiary does not appear linked to the grumble of the investment.’ It boasts: ‘We at Del Valle Abogados have the knowledge and experience needed to organise companies line with the on pinnacle of-mentioned objectives.’ But it is not the deal that DVA was offering, yet questionable it may seem, that is the problem. Rather, it is the alleged identity of some of its clients that has landed del Valle at the centre of Europe’s biggest money laundering investigation: drug runners, arms exporter, pimps, and even – say investigators – figures who had laid their hands on money stolen from Russian petrochemical giant Yukos. It is a murky picture in which only one thing is clear: that del Valle claims he did not know his customers were involved in criminality. ‘A lawyer cannot know about the present, times of yore or future of his client,’ his solicitor said last week.
European stocks sank for a fifth day in a row on Tuesday, extending the market's worst sell-off in six months, with banks taking a beating and miners retreating along with metals on worries over tightening in China.Investors were also rattled by data showing Britain crept out of recession in the fourth quarter of 2009 but only just and with a far weaker growth rate than expected.Britain's Office for National Statistics said on Tuesday gross domestic product rose by 0.1 percent between October and December, well below analysts' forecasts for growth of 0.4 percent after an 18-month recession which wiped out 6.0 percent of output. [ID:nLDE60P0WS] At 1244 GMT, the FTSEurofirst 300 .FTEU3 index of top European shares was down 0.35 percent at 1,015.10 points, after dropping to as low as 1,008.01, a level not seen since Dec 11.Europe's benchmark index, which gained 26 percent in 2009, is now down 3.1 percent this year."Obama's plan on the banking sector caught investors off guard, and the sell-off has been surprisingly violent but the morale is still good, there hasn't been a real change in sentiment," said David Thebault, head of quantitative sales trading, at Global Equities in Paris. "We might go down another 2-3 percent on the downside. At that point, there will be good buying opportunities, particularly for institutional investors although these guys have been frightened by the recent spike in volatility."
Banking stocks, which were among the top gainers in 2009, have been sharply falling since the White House shocked the market with a plan to curb risk-taking by financial firms.
President of the Junta de Andalucía, José Antonio Griñán, told Europa Press on Thursday that he had not received ‘any notification or letter’ from the British Ambassador to Spain, Giles Paxman, regarding the demolition of nine British owned properties in Albox, Almería.British diplomats are insisting that Ambassador Paxman has written and sent a fax asking for a meeting to try and find a solution to the problem, but speaking to journalists in Córdoba, José Antonio Griñán, said that the building licences for the properties had already been contested by the Junta at the time as not being considered as legal. He insisted that the Junta had therefore met its obligations regarding the matter, and that the properties were illegal. However also speaking on Thursday the Junta’s Councillor for Housing, Juan Espadas, made a call for calm from the nine property owners. He said that his department would be looking at the matter ‘case by case’. He said that problem had arisen because of the ‘speculative interests of professional defrauders’ who had attracted foreign investors by offering the chance of building on non-buildable land without explaining exactly what any problems could be.Espadas also expressed his wish to halt the disordered growth and said leaving the new town plans aside he would be working with the Town Halls in the districts of the Almanzora in Almería and Axarquia in Málaga with the objective of imposing urban discipline.‘The Junta de Andalucía does not knock down buildings, but challenges licences it considers to be illegal, and it is the judge who then decides’, he said.
Alan James Wilson was the director of a company which designed and rented portable refrigerated units from its base at Staffordshire Technology Park in Beaconside.Wilson took part in a fraud, as sole director of the business, which centred on falsifying rental agreement documents, misappropriation of company funds and disposal of equipment. The fraud paid for a luxury lifestyle in the UK and Spain which included the purchase of a villa in Marbella, currently on the market at 850,000 Euros, a 47-foot yacht which has a list price of £490,000, a luxury home in Derbyshire and Mercedes cars.The 57-year-old, from Chapel-en-le-Frith in Derbyshire, was investigated by officers from Staffordshire Police’s Economic Crime Unit. He was arrested and admitted offences of theft, false accounting and fraud at a previous hearing at Stafford Crown Court. He has been sentenced to 44 months imprisonment while the case was adjourned for 21 days for a confiscation hearing.Money from the sale of the yacht, villa and UK home, and funds seized from Wilson’s foreign accounts, is likely to go towards the confiscation order. All of Wison’s assets are currently held under restraint by police pending the forthcoming confiscation hearing.Detective Sergeant Nick Jones, from the Economic Crime Unit, said: “Wilson carried out fraud to enjoy a lavish lifestyle. We are committed to bringing offenders to justice while at the same time removing the trappings of a lifestyle earned through crime. “We are increasingly using asset recovery to take back ill-gotten gains, which are then paid as compensation to victims. These are often other commercial institutions, which may be struggling in the difficult economic climate and rely on recovered funds to continue to trade and employ staff. To allow offenders to prosper from crime is an affront to law-abiding citizens.”
Three men were seriously injured yesterday when scaffolding collapsed at a football pitch in the town of Santa María del Águila in El Ejido. The three men, aged between 40 and 51, were taken to the Poniente hospital where two of the men are reported to be seriously ill. All three men suffered bruising while one of the men has a broken leg. One of the men was released from hospital the day of the accident.
Police arrested 27-year-old Spaniard, F.J.R.G., yesterday. A search of the address also revealed an Astra 9mm pistol which police believe to be the weapon used in Saturday’s killing, in which a 29-year-old Moroccan man was shot at point blank range in the city centre. Police believe F.J.R.G. to be the person actually responsible for the shooting.
Spanish association supporting the opening of civil war graves, the Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica (AMRH), yesterday said they intended to push for further attempts to locate the grave of poet and playwright, Federico Garcia Lorca. In a statement published yesterday, the AMRH said they did not consider December’s failed attempt to find the mass grave a “failure” as it allowed certain erroneous oral testimony to be discounted. Lorca was killed in August, 1936 and buried in a mass grave along with three other men. Lorca’s family do not support the search for the poet’s remains.
Police yesterday arrested two Spanish men in connection with Saturday’s shooting in Almeria city in which a 29-year-old Moroccan man was shot at point blank range and killed.The two arrested men, 22-year-old, J.M.S.S., and 23-year-old, D.R.M., both have criminal records for a variety of crimes. Police have said they expect more arrests to follow in the course of the next few days. The Moroccan man is the third person to be murdered in the province of Almeria this year.
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