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Ana Knezevich latest: Everything we know about missing US expat, 40, who vanished from Spain’s Madrid a MONTH ago

Can you help us find Ana? Email: tips@theolivepress.es EVERYTHING you need to know about Ana Knezevich Henao, US expat who went missing from Madrid over

5 Mar, 2024 @ 13:20

Crime & Law·Lead·Must Read·Other News

Spanish woman who was gang-raped in India is given just €11,000 in compensation – as she vows to ‘try and forget’ the ordeal

A SPANISH citizen who was beaten and gang-raped by seven men in India has been given compensation of just €11,000 by the authorities in the

5 Mar, 2024 @ 11:33

Crime & Law·Lead·Other News

IPTV crackdown in Spain: First-ever sentence for pirate TV sees company fined €670,000 and its employees up to €7,000 each

A PONTEVEDRA court has become the first in Spain to convict a company for proving pirate television services by selling decoders. Engel Systems S.L and

5 Mar, 2024 @ 11:10

Andalucia·Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga·Málaga·National News·Other News·Sport

Italian gangster, 38, is arrested on Spain’s Costa Blanca: Fugitive hid among the expat community for years to avoid jail at home

AN Italian fugitive who faces 20 years in prison for drug trafficking charges has been arrested in a holiday apartment in Arenales del Sol. The

4 Mar, 2024 @ 12:45

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Other News·Valencian Community

Pressure grows on speaker in Spain’s Congress of Deputies to quit, after more details emerge about Covid mask scandal

PRESSURE was growing on Monday for the speaker in Spain’s lower house of parliament, the Congress of Deputies, to quit, as more details emerged of

4 Mar, 2024 @ 12:29

Balearic Islands·Canary Islands·Crime & Law·Lead·Other News·Politics

Two French nationals slapped with jail sentences for sexually abusing British tourist in Spain’s Ibiza

TWO French citizens have accepted two-year jail sentences for sexually abusing a British woman who was on holiday in Ibiza. The Balearic Islands’ Provincial Court

4 Mar, 2024 @ 11:23

Balearic Islands·Crime & Law·Ibiza·Lead·Other News

Guardia Civil arrests six, seizes more than two tonnes of hash, as part of ongoing drugs war on Spain’s southern coast

THE Spanish Civil Guard has made six arrests in recent days, as part of the country’s ongoing war with drug gangs on the southern coast.

3 Mar, 2024 @ 12:27

Andalucia·Cadiz·Crime & Law·Lead·Other News

Police arrested 115 people last year for violent assaults against doctors and nurses in Spain

THE Policia Nacional were called out over 9,000 times last year to deal with health worker safety concerns and carried out 115 arrests. 6,100 of

3 Mar, 2024 @ 07:00

Crime & Law·Health·Lead·National News·Other News

Spanish citizen gang raped while on motorcycle tour through India with her husband

A SPANISH citizen has been attacked and gang raped in the north of India while on a motorcycle tour through the Asian country with her

2 Mar, 2024 @ 11:15

Crime & Law·Lead·Other News

Two violent bullies viciously attack younger children at the same Alicante school in Spain

School bullies ordered by court to pay €4,000 to boy who suffered appalling campaign of verbal abuse and physical attacks in Spain

A SYSTEMATIC bullying campaign against a Santander schoolboy has resulted in a court awarding him €4,000 in compensation. Four children and their parents have been

1 Mar, 2024 @ 16:15

Cantabria·Crime & Law·Lead·Other News

Prosecutors to challenge ‘lenient’ punishment given to convicted rapist Dani Alves by court in Spain

PROSECUTORS are to appeal a four and a half year jail sentence handed down to ex-Barcelona footballer Dani Alves after he was convicted of raping

1 Mar, 2024 @ 14:58

Barcelona·Catalunya·Crime & Law·Lead·Other News

Police dismantle giant sports betting fraud that fixed results and ‘delayed’ live satellite tv pictures to fool bookmakers in Spain

75 members of a sports betting syndicate that duped bookmakers have been arrested by the Policia Nacional and the Tax Agency in association with Europol

1 Mar, 2024 @ 14:15

Crime & Law·Lead·National News·Other News

Covid Infected Teenager Slaps Mother In Face After Being Told To Stay At Home In Valencia Area Of Spain

Two girls, 13 and 15, raped after pimps offered them €20 each for sex at Murcia area flat in Spain

TWO women have been arrested in Murcia City for pimping out two underage girls they’d just met. Two men have also been detained by the

1 Mar, 2024 @ 12:15

Crime & Law·Lead·Other News

Spain’s top court opens ‘terrorism probe’ into exiled Catalan ex-president Carles Puigdemont

SPAIN’S Supreme Court has started a terrorism investigation into former Catalunya President Carles Puigdemont over protests linked to the region’s failed and illegally-organised 2017 independence

1 Mar, 2024 @ 10:04

Barcelona·Catalunya·Crime & Law·Lead·National News·Other News·Politics

Luxury rental villas costing €4k a month are converted into marijuana farms on Spain’s Costa Blanca

POLICE have arrested two members of a gang that set up indoor marijuana farms in luxury rental villas across Alicante province. One villa was located

29 Feb, 2024 @ 16:45

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

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

Police raid dealer who illegally exported military gear from Spain’s Malaga to Saudi Arabia

THE Guardia Civil has busted a Malaga-based company that smuggled military equipment out of Spain, with the items ending up in Saudi Arabia. The goods-

29 Feb, 2024 @ 14:45

Andalucia·Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga·Other News

Judge investigating Covid mask corruption scandal points to former Transport Minister Jose Luis Abalos as an ‘intermediary’, despite his claims he did nothing wrong

THE High Court judge investigating an alleged corruption ring involving the sale of masks during the worst days of the Covid-19 pandemic has pointed to

29 Feb, 2024 @ 11:19

Crime & Law·Lead·Other News·Politics

Two ‘influencers’ who ‘drugged and raped underage girls’ are arrested in Spain

TWO social media ‘influencers’ from Madrid have been arrested for drugging and sexually assaulting underage girls. The men brand themselves as Los Petazetax and produce

28 Feb, 2024 @ 17:30

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid·Other News

Husband of missing US expat Ana Knezevich ‘very concerned’ about her whereabouts, denies reports they were going through an acrimonious divorce

Can you help us find Ana? Email: tips@theolivepress.es THE husband of missing US expat Ana Knezevich is reported to be ‘very concerned’ about her whereabouts

28 Feb, 2024 @ 14:58

Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid·Other News

Bogus email demands 'immediate' €850 tuition fee payment from parents in Spain's Valencia

Hacker in Murcia accesses details of millions of drivers in Spain

A CYBERHACKER has been arrested in Murcia City after stealing details of over 40 million cars and their owners. The Policia Nacional said the man

28 Feb, 2024 @ 13:15

Crime & Law·Lead·Other News

Three Colombian men are found shot dead inside a car in Valencia after being ‘ambushed’

THREE Columbian men have been shot dead in the El Saler district of Valencia- one of them a major player in setting up a drug-trafficking

28 Feb, 2024 @ 10:38

Crime & Law·Lead·Other News·Valencia·Valencian Community

German tourist is robbed of €50,000 Rolex in Spain’s Mallorca

A GERMAN tourist has been reunited with his €50,000 Rolex watch that was wrenched off his wrist in Mallorca’s Port d’Andratx on New Year’s Day.

27 Feb, 2024 @ 17:30

Balearic Islands·Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca·Other News

PSpanish police officer is arrested 'for groping a young woman's buttocks' at the Malaga feria

How a British gang based in Estepona trafficked cocaine and hashish to Europe by hiding the drugs in furniture deliveries- all while living in a hotel complex

A BRITISH man has been arrested for being part of a gang distributing drugs from the Costa del Sol across Europe via parcel delivery companies.

27 Feb, 2024 @ 17:00

Andalucia·Costa del Sol·Crime & Law·Estepona·Lead·Other News

Major crackdown on illegal property renovations in Spain: At least 50 people are being investigated across Malaga province

AUTHORITIES say that at least 50 people have been investigated in the last year in Malaga province over illegal properties and land use transgressions as

26 Feb, 2024 @ 16:16

Andalucia·Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga·Other News

Six men who posted a €250k bail for their ‘narco’ friend are arrested in Spain’s Campo de Gibraltar after being unable to explain where the cash came from

AN accused narcotrafficker was released after posting €250,000 in bail – only for his associates who raised the money to be arrested for money laundering.

26 Feb, 2024 @ 13:30

Andalucia·Cadiz·Crime & Law·Gibraltar·Lead·Other News

‘Cocaine chauffeur’ who spent €1million of taxpayers’ cash on drug-fuelled parties for corrupt politicians in Spain’s Andalucia is FINALLY jailed

THE so-called ‘cocaine chauffeur’ who spent €1 million of taxpayers’ cash on organising drug-fuelled parties for corrupt politicians has finally been jailed. Juan Francisco Trujillo

20 Feb, 2024 @ 15:20

Andalucia·Crime & Law·Lead·Other News

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Ana Knezevich latest: Everything we know about missing US expat, 40, who vanished from Spain’s Madrid a MONTH ago

Spanish woman who was gang-raped in India is given just €11,000 in compensation – as she vows to ‘try and forget’ the ordeal

IPTV crackdown in Spain: First-ever sentence for pirate TV sees company fined €670,000 and its employees up to €7,000 each

Italian gangster, 38, is arrested on Spain’s Costa Blanca: Fugitive hid among the expat community for years to avoid jail at home

Pressure grows on speaker in Spain’s Congress of Deputies to quit, after more details emerge about Covid mask scandal

Two French nationals slapped with jail sentences for sexually abusing British tourist in Spain’s Ibiza

Guardia Civil arrests six, seizes more than two tonnes of hash, as part of ongoing drugs war on Spain’s southern coast

Police arrested 115 people last year for violent assaults against doctors and nurses in Spain

Spanish citizen gang raped while on motorcycle tour through India with her husband

School bullies ordered by court to pay €4,000 to boy who suffered appalling campaign of verbal abuse and physical attacks in Spain

Prosecutors to challenge ‘lenient’ punishment given to convicted rapist Dani Alves by court in Spain

Police dismantle giant sports betting fraud that fixed results and ‘delayed’ live satellite tv pictures to fool bookmakers in Spain

Two girls, 13 and 15, raped after pimps offered them €20 each for sex at Murcia area flat in Spain

Spain’s top court opens ‘terrorism probe’ into exiled Catalan ex-president Carles Puigdemont

Luxury rental villas costing €4k a month are converted into marijuana farms on Spain’s Costa Blanca

Police raid dealer who illegally exported military gear from Spain’s Malaga to Saudi Arabia

Judge investigating Covid mask corruption scandal points to former Transport Minister Jose Luis Abalos as an ‘intermediary’, despite his claims he did nothing wrong

Husband of missing US expat Ana Knezevich ‘very concerned’ about her whereabouts, denies reports they were going through an acrimonious divorce

Hacker in Murcia accesses details of millions of drivers in Spain

Three Colombian men are found shot dead inside a car in Valencia after being ‘ambushed’

German tourist is robbed of €50,000 Rolex in Spain’s Mallorca

How a British gang based in Estepona trafficked cocaine and hashish to Europe by hiding the drugs in furniture deliveries- all while living in a hotel complex

Major crackdown on illegal property renovations in Spain: At least 50 people are being investigated across Malaga province

Six men who posted a €250k bail for their ‘narco’ friend are arrested in Spain’s Campo de Gibraltar after being unable to explain where the cash came from

‘Cocaine chauffeur’ who spent €1million of taxpayers’ cash on drug-fuelled parties for corrupt politicians in Spain’s Andalucia is FINALLY jailed

LIFE IN SPAIN: A work of art that offers a glimpse into some ancient Spanish traditions.

Andalucia has the highest rate of deaths from cardiovascular diseases – Spain’s biggest killer

MULLINS IT OVER: Learning to tango with Spanish bureaucrats… and when that fails, get back to work

A National Hero: This week in 2006, Fernando Alonso won his second consecutive Formula One World Championship. MICHAEL COY ponders the importance of professional sport in our lives.

LIFE IN SPAIN: A tale of three Spanish exiles