21 Oct, 2019 @ 10:10
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Highly organised crime gang steals over €500,000 from car parked in garage in southern Spain… but owner tells police the money isn’t his

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A ROBBERY victim has denied owning suspiciously large volumes of cash after more than €500,000 was snatched from his car. 

It comes as prosecutors are seeking a six-year prison sentence for each of the five men accused of stealing the money from his vehicle, which was parked in an underground garage in Dos Hermanas.

The suspects, known only as F.S.S., P.R.H., E.M.I., G.R.C. and G.R.R, are accused of donning balaclavas, hats and gloves before entering the private garage on October 24, 2017, using a ‘remote control device.’

Authorities still do not know how the group managed to acquire such a device.

At around 4am, four of the suspects headed straight for the locked car, which was in ‘perfect condition’ and parked in a space belonging to the sister of the owner.

A fifth suspect was waiting in a getaway car outside.

The court heard how the men then allegedly smashed the right front window and began searching the interior.

“They ripped and fractured the dashboard, cracked the seats, searched the entire interior, ripped out the exterior profiles and rear headlights and cut the chassis plate,” the prosecutor claimed.

He added that there were ‘large hollow spaces hidden between the walls’ and that it was there they found ‘a red bag with “autos ok” written on it, and a backpack.’

Inside the red bag were seven sealed packages containing 500, 200, 100, 50 and 20 Euro bills, while the backpack contained 13 similar packages – a total of €547,180.

The owner of the car, however, denies the cash belongs to him.

The trial continues.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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