Southern Spain is the animal trafficking gateway to Europe
Authorities in southern Spain are fighting against Europe’s growing animal trafficking problem
Guardia Civil reveal their ten most wanted criminals
The most wanted include Italians, Moroccans, French and Venezuelans, but no Brits
Nazis hold rally in Malaga
Neo Nazis gathered to protest at the detention of far right activists in Greece
Poisoned Russian spy had links to Spain
Poisoned spy, Alexander Litvinenko, was working with the Spanish to uncover links with organised crime and the Russian Mafia in Spain
Tinie Tempah at Aqwa Mist Marbella
The pop star played to a sold out audience at Aqwa Mist
Shady Russians make Majestic error in Spain
Olive Press can reveal that businessmen once linked to the Mijas race track are behind Casares Town Hall scandal
Spanish forgery gang get canned
Police made 25 arrests after discovering a gang printing fake 50-euro notes in a building disguised as a canned food depot
Timeshare Toni defiant amid claims he’s fleeing Spain
Costa crook Toni Muldoon rumoured to be selling up and heading to Eastern Europe
Costa del Sol cons and scams
James Bryce looks at the huge proliferation of cons and scams at work on the Costa del Sol this summer
Blacklisted & benefitting
After reporting that a blacklisted financial advisor is running a call centre from the Costa del Sol, the Olive Press looks further into the shady
88 Nigerians missing in world´s biggest ‘lottery scam’ trial in Malaga
Internet trial to start in Spain with half its defendents disappeared
How a shady Swiss fraudster and 50 secret societies managed to turn a UNESCO protected area near Ronda into a golf macro-project…
A new book proves the Los Merinos project was set up illegally with Swiss financier Werner Rey at the helm
Al, Sal and Big Mo
Not a bunch of mafia hoods, but the main towns on the Costa Tropical in Granada province - Almuñécar, Salobreña and Motril. And if you're
Illegal immigrant shoot out game backfires for PP Conservative Party
A controversial video game commissioned by PP in Catalonia provoked widespread outrage
You can run, but no longer hide!
With 70 per cent of Britain’s Most Wanted criminals now rounded up, Wendy Williams reckons Spain is starting to shed its ‘Costa del Crime’ sobriquet
The Costa Nostra
LIFTING THE LID ON MAFIA SPAIN: After a spate of gangland-style shootings and the high profile arrests of three dozen Irish mobsters, the Olive Press
Briton slain in ‘drive by’ wanted in UK
26-year-old Dan Smith was wanted in UK for attempted murder.
Los Merinos would ‘gravely endanger’ local ecosystem
As Ronda mayor appears in court for corruption, new report slams the golf project which he controversially passed
Immigrant dies on floating tyre
Extreme measures taken to reach Europe are highlighted once more
Romantic writer dies after stressful battle with developers
'Gentleman scholar' Alastair Boyd became the victim of a "mafia-style" campaign by golf developers after opposing the controversial Los Merinos scheme
Cosa Nostra del Sol
Leading Mafia experts and Italian newspaper claim Spain - particularly the Costa del Sol and Barcelona - is now the centre for global organised crime
A very Hispanic soap opera
He rose from nothing to become the mayor of Marbella. With his superstar girlfriend and expensive tastes, his face appeared in gossip magazines throughout Spain
Britons in Costa gang war
Third shooting in a month due to an unpaid drugs debt as British criminals muscle back into Spanish drugs trade POLICE believe that a British
Sent to their death
As 29 immigrants die, Mafias “knew” ill-equipped boats would never reach Spain
The new El Dorado
Five hundred years after Spanish conquistadors scoured the Andes in search of El Dorado, that fabled city of gold, MARK EVELEIGH reports on the Ecuadorians
Mark Thatcher’s Ronda hideout, a kidnap threat and an African overthrow plot
Sir Mark is hiding out in fear of being seized to face trial in the Equitorial Guinea plot, now linked to Spain’s ex-PM Jose Maria