'Fat Freddie' Thompson in Alicante and his lieutenant who shot Foley is in Malaga

'Fat Freddie' Thompson and two of his key associates have fled to Spain in fear of their lives.The trio, including the gangland figure reported to have shot Martin 'Viper' Foley, left the country at the weekend.Thompson is thought to be in Alicante and his lieutenant who shot Foley is in Malaga.Early Saturday, the home of another associate was ripped apart in a grenade attack.The 2.20am explosion came horrifically close to claiming the lives of the children of the household. They had been watching television until 2am.The grenade was rolled into the sittingroom of the house, ripping out the ceiling and attic.Gardai are convinced that the departure of Thompson and his pals will do little to calm his two feuds with the INLA and another jailed drug dealer.a consortium of criminals have pooled...

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Spanish police say they have arrested six people on suspicion of smuggling heroin

Spanish police say they have arrested six people on suspicion of smuggling heroin from Turkey and distributing it just outside Madrid.Police say investigators have seized 28 kilograms (62 pounds) of heroin, five rifles, two guns, ammunition, a large amount of jewels and more than €185,000 (US$290,000) in cash during raids.The suspects, which included one Turkish national, allegedly used a distribution point in Canada Real Galiana de Valdemingomez, a shantytown to the southeast of Madrid.Police said Tuesday the two suspects were carrying a large bag full of cash at the time of their arres...

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Fat’ Freddie Thompson is lying low in Salou in Northern Spain

Fat’ Freddie Thompson is lying low in Salou in Northern Spain after he fled Dublin with a €40,000 hit-bounty on his head.Meanwhile, Thompson’s arch enemy INLA gangster Declan ‘Whacker’ Duffy has also fled Ireland in a last-minute bid to avoid assassination. Following a series of vicious stabbings shootings between the rival gangs Gardai fear - open warfare on the streets of Ireland’s capital city Dublin.With both fractions locked into a deadly feud the Gardai have warned more than 100 criminals in Dublin that their lives are in danger - and they should take precautions.The INLA are making a comeback. They've abandoned all pretence of being republican...

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Baltasar Garzón, travelled to Málaga those arrested in‘operación Troika’ face charges of illegal association, money laundering,

Baltasar Garzón, travelled to Málaga where he ordered one of the people arrested in the city, Spanish woman Leocadia Martín, to jail without bail on money laundering and other charges, and extended the detention time of Svetlana Kousmina, a Russian woman, wife to one of the men arrested in Marbella as part of the case. In Málaga provinces searches were carried out in Marbella, Estepona, Málaga City, Torrox and Nerja with another one of the heads, Alexander Malyshev being arrested at his home in Frigiliana.he has released four of those arrested as part of the ‘operación Troika’ against the Russian mafia in Spain, sending another person to prison and extending the detention time for a further 13 people after his questioning carried out over the weekend.The interrogations continue today of the...

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Francis Smith who lives in Alhaurin, Malaga,not guilty verdict

The case against a man accused of conspiring to distribute a staggering £2.6 million worth of cannabis has been dropped – because the evidence has been destroyed.Francis Smith had denied conspiring with van driver Roy Selby and others to distribute the 1.2 tonnes of cannabis in February 2006 near Rugby.Selby, now 43, from Stockton, was jailed for two-and-a-half years in August that year after he admitted possessing the cannabis with intent to supply it.It was alleged that evidence was found linking Smith (56) who lives in Alhaurin, Malaga, on Spain's Costa del Sol, to the packages of cannabis seized from Selby's van.His case had been adjourned for trial after he entered his not guilty plea at a hearing at Warwick Crown Court in May.On that occasion prosecutor Adrian Keeling said: "This case...

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Brink's-Mat bullion Detectives last week found six suitcases crammed with gold inside a London deposit box.

Police have begun a search of over 7,000 safety deposit boxes in what is believed to be a massive crackdown on British gangsters.Around 300 officers are involved in what is being described as a hunt for cash, guns, drugs and child pornography. They believe they could find contents worth tens of millions of pounds.Cops said the raids on three London depots, thought to belong to the Safe Deposit Centres Ltd company, would target the “top tier” of Britain’s criminals as part of a two-year investigation into money laundering, dubbed ‘Operation Rize’.Two people, believed to be connected to Safe Deposit Centres Ltd, have so far been arrested in the...

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Sir Mark Thatcher, son of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, branded a "dirty player"

"Spain is heavily mentioned by Simon Mann. It was where the plot started and that country has very good intelligence service," he said, adding that a special relationship still existed between the west African nation and its former colonial rulers. "And yet not a hint was given from Spain and we wonder why. Sir Mark Thatcher, son of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, branded a "dirty player" who hoped to reap huge benefits from the plot and claimed that Ely Calil, the London-based businessman who allegedly financed the project, was planning to "silence" Mann. Mann, a 55-year-old former SAS soldier, faces the death penalty if convicted of leading attempted coup in 2004. Speaking ahead of the trial which opens today in the capital Malabo, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema said he "strongly...

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Man believed responsible for twelve armed robberies over the last two years that netted around a quarter of a million euros, was arrested in Huelva

Man believed responsible for twelve armed robberies over the last two years that netted around a quarter of a million euros, was arrested in Huelva last Friday. The 67 year old recommenced his activities in April 2006 after escaping from Villabona jail in Asturias, where he was serving time for 11 similar offences. After a lengthy investigation, the suspect was tracked down to a car dealership on the La Paz industrial estate where he had just bought a car using a false identity. A search of the man's home in El Portil (Huelva) yielded a wealth of incriminating evidence including a 32 calibre Taurus handgun, various fake identity documents, a fake Local Police badge, and pepper spr...

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Fraudsters: Evangelia Liogka and Christakis Philippou conned thousands of people into buying their 'bargain holidays'

Accountant Timothy Entwistle, 57, who lived in an 11-bedroom mansion near Yeovil, Somerset, and educated his three children at public school despite being a declared bankrupt, masterminded the finances.Accountant: Timothy Entwistle lived a luxury lifestyle in a £1m mansionFraudsters: Evangelia Liogka and Christakis Philippou conned thousands of people into buying their 'bargain holidays'Instead, the £7million they handed over collectively went into the pockets of crooked travel agents who masterminded a three-year scam to fund lavish lifestyles.Some customers ended up in the resort of their choice before finding out that their booking didn't...

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ANTI-Russian mafia operation was carried out simultaneously in several places in Spain

ANTI-Russian mafia operation was carried out simultaneously in several places in Spain, including Marbella, Nerja, Malaga, Torrox, Palma de Majorca, Javea, El Campello, Valencia and Madrid.Spanish authorities said Friday they had broken up a massive Russian criminal network operating in the south of the country, arresting 18 people.The Tambovskaya-Malyshevskay gang is the "largest criminal organisation of Russian origin in the world" and has been "totally dismantled", police said in a statement.It said 400 officers took part in the crackdown in southern Spain, from where "they planned their criminal activities in Russia, in several countries...

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Alleged arms merchant Monzer Al Kassar has been extradited from Spain to the United States

A long-time Spanish resident known as the "Prince of Marbella" for his opulent lifestyle, Al Kassar is charged in a federal indictment unsealed last June with conspiring to kill Americans, supply terrorists, obtain anti-aircraft missiles and launder money, the police said.US officials confirm that alleged arms merchant Monzer Al Kassar has been extradited from Spain to the United States. He arrived in the here this morning. Al Kassar allegedly armed terrorist groups, including the Palestinian Liberation Front, and in the past has been accused of arming the Palestinian terrorists who in 1985 hijacked the Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro. He...

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Monzer Al Kassar Marbella property siezed and all funds contained in three separate bank accounts

Indictment seeks the forfeiture of an estate located in Marbella, Spain, and all funds contained in three separate bank accounts. The forfeitures represent the alleged proceeds obtained from the charged offenses.Michael J. Garcia, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michele M. Leonhart, the Acting Administrator of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), announced that international arms dealer Monzer Al Kassar, a/k/a Abu Munawar, a/k/a El Taous, arrived in New York today after being extradited from Spain on federal terrorism charges. Al Kassar was extradited to New York for his participation...

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Benalmádena 34 cars and four motorbikes were burned out

34 cars and four motorbikes were burned out in a fire in the early hours of Friday which took place outside the Tio Charles urbanisation in Benalmádena.The blaze started just after 4,10 am and was declared to be extinguished just after three hours later. Firemen from Benalmádena and Fuengirola attended the scene. Despite the ferocity of the blaze there was no need for any people to be evacuated from the ar...

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four year in prison after more than 3,150 child porn images were found on his computer

The court in Sevilla has sentenced a man to four year in prison after more than 3,150 child porn images were found on his computer together with 157 videos, all of which he shared with other users of the internet.EFE news agency reports that 32 year old C.T.R. was discovered when he took his lap-top computer in for repair and the shop informed the police on finding the contents. Police say that there were images of children, some aged under 13, taking part in explicit sexual practices. The sentence rejected the defence claim to the man’s right to privacy and the claim that the police registered the computer without a judicial ord...

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Two Spanish tourists who have been detained on charges of making homosexual advances at two taxi drivers in Gambia

Two Spanish tourists who have been detained on charges of making homosexual advances at two taxi drivers in Gambia face up to 14 years in prison for violating the principles of Islam, the gay organisation FAGC said Tuesday in Barcelona.The Spaniards were being held at a police station in the coastal resort of Kotu. They were arrested Friday after the taxi drivers reported them to police.Gambian President Yahya Gammeh has threatened to "cut off the head" of any homosexual caught in the touristic West African country.The Spaniards were receiving visits from the Spanish consul to Gambia, who gave them his "full support," sources of the foreign ministry said in Madr...

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Spanish police have arrested 16 people suspected of being part of a gang that stole hundreds of tons copper for sale in Spain

Spanish police have arrested 16 people, most of them Romanians, suspected of being part of a gang that stole hundreds of tons copper for sale in Spain and abroad, the interior ministry has said.It said the theft of copper rolls from a solar park in the southern region of Albacete led police to a warehouse where the gang had hidden around 1.6 tonnes of copper as well as machines for making fake identity cards.The ministry said in March that police had detained 77 Romanians suspected of being part of a gang that stole copper to ship to China and Germany.Surging demand on the global market for copper, used in phone lines, power cables, radiators and air conditioners, is driving thefts of the material around the wor...

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Spanish resident convicted of drug smuggling

Two Nigerians have been convicted and sentenced to 21 years’ imprisonment in hard labour by an Accra Regional Tribunal presided over by Justice Frank Manu for possessing narcotic drugs.Mondistus Nidimakor had 11years jail term for each count of attempting to export and possessing 73 pellets of cocaine while Gabriel Alaoma received 10 years for each count of importing and possessing 4475.388g of heroine, a narcotic drug.However, the sentences are to run concurrently. The convicts had initially pleaded not guilty to the charges but later changed their pleas to guilty.The court ordered that properties including money taken from Nidimakor should be handed over to him and the exhibits should be destroyed.Concerning Alaoma, the court observed that he had been on remand for the past four years therefore...

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suspects were rounded up by cops backed by riot police in Malaga, on Spain’s Costa del Sol.

Fifty-five Nigerians were arrested in armed swoops by Spanish fraudbusters on more than 60 homes and businesses. The suspects were rounded up by cops backed by riot police in Malaga, on Spain’s Costa del Sol. The gang are believed to have ripped off 1,500 victims worldwide – many of them British – for £21.6million.Individual losses average £14,000, but range from £640 to a massive £720,000. The crackdown followed the jailing of a Nigerian last Friday in Surrey after a disabled British pensioner was swindled out of his £100,000 life savings in a lottery scam. Britain’s Serious Organised Crime Agency is also currently engaged in a long-running investigation in Spain and Nigeria into lottery rackets which target Britons. Victims get letters saying they have won vast prizes in Spain’s legendary...

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British family’s £4.4 million Spanish home has been wrecked by 400 teenagers

British family’s £4.4 million Spanish home has been wrecked by 400 teenagers after their 16-year-old daughter used social networking sites to invite people from across the Costa del Sol to drink a “lot of alcohol”. After invites were posted on the Bebo and Facebook sites, rumours were spread that the Jodie Hudson’s parents did not mind the seven-bedroom house being trashed because they were getting divorced. By the end of the night, according to a friend of the privately-educated teenager, the house “looked like a war zone” with £6,000 worth of jewellery and clothes looted by some of the guests, and televisions thrown in the swimming pool. Miss...

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offences were committed at Melling’s villa in Torrevieja,

4 men have pleaded guilty and been sentenced at Newcastle Crown Court for a total of 17 sexual offences on three teenaged boys from Tyneside.The court heard how Derek Marshall, 52, and his son, Graeme Marshall, 24, befriended the boys, aged between 13 and 16 years. The victims were then introduced to a 58-year-old man called Melling, from Middlesbrough, who had been living in Spain, and Paul Anthony Bures, 53, from Kent, both of whom were jailed indefinitely. The offences were committed at Melling’s villa in Torrevieja, and also at locations in the UK: Kent, London and Northumbria.Judge John Evans described the case as: “An altogether horrendous story. The psychological damage wrought upon the victims is perfectly evidential.” The court heard how the Marshalls befriended the boys and introduced...

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In Spain it is legal to grow cannabis for personal use in his own property, even for recreational use.

A judge of the town of Ferrol declared a patient, who grows and uses cannabis to treat pain and spasticity due to spinal cord injury, not guilty, because he "did not commit a crime" against public health. In Spain it is legal to grow cannabis for personal use in his own property, even for recreational use. However, 32- year old Juan Manuel Rodríguez did not cultivate cannabis at his home, but in a nursing home of the national health service and he was denounced by the director of the centre. Meanwhile the Spanish government acknowledged the medical benefits of cannabis in some illnesses. The current national plan on drugs issued by the Health Ministry says that "the therapeutic potential of cannabis has been widely reviewed" and that "there is scientific evidence for therapeutic use in nausea...

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Portugal's Judicial Police arrested four people for allegedly trying to smuggle the Coke into Spain

Portugal's Judicial Police said Thursday it had seized 121.8 kg of cocaine and arrested four people for allegedly trying to smuggle the drug into Spain. The detainees, three men and one woman, "aimed to acquire and secure the transport of cocaine from Portugal to Spain with the intention of distributing it there," the police said. "Some of those arrested had already been linked to narcotics trafficking by either Portuguese or foreign authorities," the police added. Four passenger vehicles were also seized, three of them with Spanish license plates, the police add...

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David Hibbs-Turner mastermind behind one of Merseyside’s biggest ever drug rings had a home in Marbella

mastermind behind one of Merseyside’s biggest ever drug rings was arrested by police as he played five-a-side football with his trusted gang.While having a knockabout at Walton Hall sports centre, Fazakerley gangster David Hibbs-Turner kept six mobile phones hidden in his sports kit, ready to act at any time as the wheels turned on his multi-million pound international cocaine and heroin operation. he was convicted of ordering the assassination of fellow Liverpool gangster Michael ‘Mikey’ Wright.This week, Hibbs-Turner was jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum of 37 years for the murder, the drugs and running an extortion racket.Now...

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David Geering computers were traced to an internet cafe in London’s Victoria district, an address in Hertfordshire and a property in Spain.

David Geering, 48, had been a detective with the Metropolitan Police’s Homicide and Serious Crime Command. But all the time he was a child sex pervert trading hundreds of vile images with other sickos. A number of photos featured the most extreme kind of child abuse.Geering was found to have taken indecent photos of two kids himself. He used the false name Nigel Robotham to cover his tracks but was nabbed when he made internet contact with someone he thought was a 12-year-old girl. It was actually a fake identity assumed by officers from the Met Police Paedophile Unit. Three of his computers were traced to an internet cafe in London’s Victoria district, an address in Hertfordshire and a property in Spain. Checks with other forces revealed Geering’s evil trade in images of kids. Geering was...

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Richard Davison is currently on bail in Spain where he is facing drug smuggling charges.

‘Uncatchable’ boats…that’s been the claim made against British manufacturer Crompton Marine with its two principals, Richard Davison, 39, and Ellen George, 41, now facing court in Ipswich, UK. The court was told that Crompton Marine had built an enviable reputation for its production of high-speed inflatables. However, according to the UK’s Daily Mail, the respectable front of Crompton Marine is alleged to have hidden an undercover ‘trade’ producing high-speed craft for international drug smugglers. It is alleged Davison and George were well paid for their efforts. Sums of money mentioned before the court include ‘secret cash deals’ on AUD$720,000...

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