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Have you been hacked? Notorious hacker marketplace selling your identity to criminals taken down in worldwide police operation

SPANISH police were part of a 17-country-strong international police operation to bring down one of the world’s largest illegal marketplaces for stolen account credentials. Known

5 Apr, 2023 @ 17:00

Crime & Law·Lead·National News

Basilica Of Santuari De Lluc Facade From Wikipedia

Monastery Mystery: Stolen artefacts from Mallorcan monastery returned

The Civil Guard have returned stolen artefacts and jewellery to the Monastery Lluc’s collection. This follows the arrest of a museum worker for stealing objects

5 Apr, 2023 @ 16:15

Balearic Islands·Crime & Law·La Cultura·Mallorca·Other News

Chaos and confusion during wild knife fight between two gypsy clans over reported drug battle in Spain’s Mallorca

CHAOS ensued in Mallorca last night after gang war broke out when one gypsy family reportedly tried to rob another while disguised as Guardia Civil.

5 Apr, 2023 @ 14:15

Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

Scammer With Nearly 600 Identities Stayed In Hotels Across Spain And Had Over 300 Bank Accounts

Scammer with 576 stolen identities stayed in hotels across Spain and had over 300 bank accounts

A MAN from the Murcia region may have earned the title of the biggest individual scammer in Spain. The Policia Nacional only this week revealed

5 Apr, 2023 @ 12:17

Almeria·Crime & Law·Lead·Murcia

Gang produces bogus documents to get people identified as Ukraine refugees on Spain’s Costa Blanca

POLICE in Torrevieja have busted a group who produced fake documents for East Europeans for them to mascarade as Ukraine nationals fleeing the war in

5 Apr, 2023 @ 11:21

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Torrevieja·Valencian Community

Key figure in multi-billion euro cryptocurrency scam is arrested at Barcelona airport in Spain

EXCLUSIVE: Liquidators probing Globix close in on suspicious payments taken out of the company

THE bosses of a beleaguered crypto company ‘took out €11 million’ just months before the company collapsed, it can be revealed. Documents seen by the

4 Apr, 2023 @ 19:53

Crime & Law·Gibraltar·Lead·Must Read

Police officer has part of ear bitten off during squatter showdown in Spain’s Valencia area

THREE Alaquas Policia Local officers were injured on Monday evening when responding to a call about noise coming from a building occupied by squatters. Police

4 Apr, 2023 @ 18:27

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

Police Seize Biggest Cocaine Stash 'for Years' In Spain's Costa Blanca

Police seize biggest cocaine stash seen ‘for years’ in Spain’s Costa Blanca

THE POLICIA NACIONAL have seized what they described as the ‘largest cocaine stash seen for years’ in Alicante province. 35 kilos of the drug was

4 Apr, 2023 @ 14:43

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Valencian Community

Women liberated from highly organised Andalucian prostitute ring

National Police have freed 20 women who were being sexually exploited by a criminal gang in the Malaga area. The criminal organization forced the women

4 Apr, 2023 @ 13:30

Andalucia·Cadiz·Crime & Law·Malaga·Marbella·Other News

Online scammer sells non-existent cut price cars to people around Spain

Woman refuses to move in with ex-boyfriend and is killed by him in Spain’s Andalucia

THE GUARDIA CIVIL has arrested a 30-year-old man in Huelva province after he stabbed his former girlfriend to death after she refused to live with

4 Apr, 2023 @ 11:07

Andalucia·Crime & Law·Huelva·Lead

Prostitute ring that threatened exploited women with voodoo to be tried in Malaga

The Provincial Court of Malaga will try four people for allegedly forcing Nigerian women into prostitution. The defendants, two men and two women, practised voodoo

3 Apr, 2023 @ 18:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga·Other News

Infamous Teenage Hacker Arrested And Jailed By Court In Spain's Madrid

Infamous teenage hacker called ‘Alcasec’ jailed by court in Spain’s Madrid

THE NATIONAL COURT imprisoned a teenage cybercriminal on Monday for accessing a server where all documents related to criminal trials in Spain are kept. 19-year-old

3 Apr, 2023 @ 17:35

Crime & Law·Granada·Lead

Two Men Accused Of Killing British Businessman Are Bailed After Three Years Behind Bars In Spain's Andalucia

Two men accused of killing British businessman are bailed by court in Spain’s Andalucia

TWO MEN accused of the 2019 murder of a British businessman on the Costa del Sol have been bailed by a Fuengirola court. Aaron Asquith,

3 Apr, 2023 @ 16:08

Andalucia·Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga·Murcia

Vending Machine Thief Armed With Drill Caught In Special Police Operation In Spain's Valencia

Spain’s Civil Guard busts gang scamming holidaymakers with adverts that were too good to be true

THE SPANISH Civil Guard has busted a gang that was allegedly scamming holidaymakers by offering fake accommodation, as part of an operation dubbed ‘Rent Scam’.

2 Apr, 2023 @ 18:00

Crime & Law·Lead·National News·Travel News

Officers from Ireland and Spain stage raids in Alicante to smash drug ring run by gangster Barry Young

IRISH police officers travelled to Spain this week to stage a series of raids in Alicante province, aimed at smashing a drug gang run by

2 Apr, 2023 @ 15:00

Alicante·Crime & Law·Lead

Gibraltar man who choked, slapped and threatened to kill pregnant woman gets prison time

A GIBRALTAR man who choked and threatened to kill a pregnant woman was sentenced to eight months in prison. Imad El Haik Massaoud, 33, of

2 Apr, 2023 @ 09:00

Crime & Law·Gibraltar·Lead·Other News

Britain’s most wanted female fugitive who spent nine years hiding out in Spain has her jail sentence doubled

BRITAIN’S former most wanted female fugitive, finally tracked down and arrested in a sleepy Catalan town last year, has had her jail sentence almost doubled

31 Mar, 2023 @ 18:30

Catalunya·Crime & Law·Lead

Arsonists reponsible for 91 blazes in Asturias dubbed ‘fire terrorists’

AN incredible 91 fires have been set by arsonists in Northern Spain’s autonomous community of Asturias. It has been reported that 174 people from 39

31 Mar, 2023 @ 17:15

Asturias·Crime & Law·Environment·Lead

The true-life Galician tragedy that inspired hit Spanish movie ‘The Beasts’

THE 2022 Spanish film As Bestas, known in English as The Beasts, is a taught, almost unbearably tense thriller. It tells the story of a

31 Mar, 2023 @ 16:18

Crime & Law·Entertainment·Lead

Fear of new Brit gangland murder as 'prominent' Liverpool fugitive vanishes from Costa Blanca following string of shootings

British tourist arrested for attempted murder after driving into two people on Spain’s Mallorca

A BRITISH tourist, 29, has been arrested in Magaluf for attempted murder after deliberately driving into two people he had argued with earlier on Thursday

31 Mar, 2023 @ 14:15

Balearic Islands·Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

Angry Benidorm residents to stage protest this weekend over big local tax rises

British man arrested in Spain’s Benidorm after stabbing customer in ‘English Zone’ bar argument

A British man has been arrested after stabbing a man he was arguing with at a Benidorm bar in the city’s ‘English Zone’ on Thursday

31 Mar, 2023 @ 12:00

Benidorm·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Valencian Community

Kinahan gang member wishes to return to Spain when released from Dublin prison

A notorious Kinahan gang enforcer has told a court that he intends to return to Spain and start a new life once he is released

30 Mar, 2023 @ 19:15

Alicante·Crime & Law·Lead

British man accused of stabbing wife to death is jailed by court on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A 69-YEAR-OLD British man has been jailed as investigations continue into Sunday’s killing of his wife at their Lomas de Cabo Roig urbanisation home on

30 Mar, 2023 @ 18:45

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Valencian Community

Irish man stabs fellow tourist in Benidorm holiday apartments on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A FIGHT involving two Irish holidaymakers staying in a Benidorm tourist apartment ended up with one of them being stabbed and requiring hospital treatment. The

30 Mar, 2023 @ 16:46

Benidorm·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Valencian Community

Dangerous 'devil hitman' from Colombia 'who excelled in kidnap, torture and making people disappear' is arrested on Spain's Costa Blanca

Thief attacks and robs middle-aged women on streets of Costa Blanca city in Spain

A THIEF who stalked middle-aged women walking alone on the streets of Denia has been arrested by the Policia Nacional. The 37-year-old Uruguayan national has

30 Mar, 2023 @ 14:15