17 Aug, 2010 @ 09:55
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Under the hammer

By Nicola Cowell


MALAGA court has started to sell off the 15 cars and extensive art collection amassed by Juan Antonio Roca through illegal property dealings.

Seven of his 15 cars have already been sold at auction, raising 400,000 euros to help pay off his 8.3million euros of debt.

The most expensive, a Gull Wing Mercedes, went for 200,000 euros.

The disgraced ex-Marbella planning boss will face trial in September in the so-called Operation Malaya case, in which he is said to have amassed 200 million euros in planning deals.

When arrested in 2006, police found millions of euros in cash, throroughbred horses and even a tiger at his numerous homes.

His art collection, which is worth approximately 27million euros, is to be auctioned off by Sotheby’s this Autumn.

A helicopter is expected to fetch 850,000 euros.

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Jon Clarke (Publisher & Editor)

Jon Clarke is a Londoner who worked at the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday as an investigative journalist before moving to Spain in 2003 where he helped set up the Olive Press.

After studying Geography at Manchester University he fell in love with Spain during a two-year stint teaching English in Madrid.

On returning to London, he studied journalism and landed his first job at the weekly Informer newspaper in Teddington, covering hundreds of stories in areas including Hounslow, Richmond and Harrow.

This led on to work at the Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Mirror, Standard and even the Sun, before he landed his first full time job at the Daily Mail.

After a year on the Newsdesk he worked as a Showbiz correspondent covering mostly music, including the rise of the Spice Girls, the rivalry between Oasis and Blur and interviewed many famous musicians such as Joe Strummer and Ray Manzarak, as well as Peter Gabriel and Bjorn from Abba on his own private island.

After a year as the News Editor at the UK’s largest-selling magazine Now, he returned to work as an investigative journalist in Features at the Mail on Sunday.

As well as tracking down Jimi Hendrix’ sole living heir in Sweden, while there he also helped lead the initial investigation into Prince Andrew’s seedy links to Jeffrey Epstein during three trips to America.

He had dozens of exclusive stories, while his travel writing took him to Jamaica, Brazil and Belarus.

He is the author of three books; Costa Killer, Dining Secrets of Andalucia and My Search for Madeleine.

Contact jon@theolivepress.es

1 Comment

  1. 15 Classic cars for 400K euros, including a Mercedes Gull Wing coupe sold for 200K euros…”someone” needs a better auctioneer!
    While this Malaya case drags on til we’re all dead and buried (then the public forgets the Millions of euros illegally taken like with Gil) why not do what the US and UK do: a) have a reputable accounting firm do forensic accounting to identify Roca’s assets and document his lifestyle then b)in Court ask him to document where the money came from to afford these? He’s already admitted Tax Evasion in buying winning Lottery Tickets to “avoid taxes on money he had”…earned where and when did he declare & pay taxes to Spain on that money.. but he still admitted the act was to evade taxes. A Crime no?

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