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Fake contracts allegedly sold for €1700 so non-EU ‘workers’ could get Spanish residencia and claim benefits in Alicante region

FALSE employment contracts were allegedly sold by a group of Alicante fraudsters so others could claim Spanish residencia and benefits. Policia Nacional arrested the gang

1 Mar, 2020 @ 14:00

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

1.65 million doses of doping substances seized in Spain after 100 boxes of growth hormone sent to wrong address

Seven were arrested, including five Spaniards, one Pakistani and one Moroccan

28 Feb, 2020 @ 16:05

Barcelona·Crime & Law·Lead

Child pornography gang operating across NINE Spanish provinces arrested – one with sexually explicit images of babies

NATIONAL POLICE have detained 15 people across Spain who owned and distributed child pornography through social media. One of the gang is said to have

28 Feb, 2020 @ 15:16

Barcelona·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid

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Apartment owner defrosts rack of RIBS on washing line as residents panic call police over ‘drops of blood’ on patio below

DEFROSTING a rack of veal ribs on the washing line may have seemed a neat idea at the time. But for one apartment owner in

28 Feb, 2020 @ 13:11

Crime & Law

Gang of five dangerous robbers arrested on Spain’s Costa Blanca

FIVE arrests were carried out in El Pilar de la Horadada and Torrevieja for numerous robbery offences this week. The quintet, well-known to Guardia Civil

28 Feb, 2020 @ 11:49

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Marta del Castillo’s killer implicates brother in Sevilla murder

Miguel Carcaño directly involves his brother, Francisco Javier Delgado, in the alleged murder and disappearance of the young woman's body

27 Feb, 2020 @ 17:09

Crime & Law·Lead·Sevilla

BREAKING: British Ambassador becomes involved in the inquest into the death of British man killed by police on Spain’s Costa del Sol

THE British Ambassador to Spain has become involved in the inquest into the death of violent British robber Sean Hercules.

27 Feb, 2020 @ 16:56

Crime & Law·Lead

Police arrest 15 for owning and distributing images of child sexual abuse through social networks in Spain

The arrests were made across nine provinces, while six others have already been charged for their alleged involvement

27 Feb, 2020 @ 11:41

Crime & Law·Lead

Lisa Brown suspect jailed for 12 years for role in €10 million drug ring while police in Spain no closer to solving expat’s disappearance

DEAN Woods aka Simon Corner has been jailed for 12 years for his involvement in a large scale Liverpool drug trafficking operation. Woods, 37, long

27 Feb, 2020 @ 10:52

Crime & Law·Lead

Expat was rammed into garage door by WIFE trying to park while almost FIVE TIMES over alcohol limit on Spain’s Costa del Sol

THE French expat who was rushed into intensive care after being rammed into a garage door was hit by his wife trying to park, it

26 Feb, 2020 @ 13:41

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

SPAIN: Football superagent Fali Ramadani ‘laundered millions with fake transfers’ so he could buy yachts and property

A Maltese ‘gatekeeper’ tax adviser company was helping the agents and their criminal network

26 Feb, 2020 @ 12:01

Crime & Law·Lead

Man kills wife with shotgun before committing suicide in Spain’s Andalucia

The woman is the third victim of sexist violence in Andalucia and number 12 in Spain this year

26 Feb, 2020 @ 10:20

Crime & Law·Lead·Sevilla

Gang of 47 arrested for selling ‘heart attack’ impotency drugs in UK, Madrid, Alicante, Barcelona, Valencia, Granada, Sevilla and Malaga

In total, more than €500,000 in cash, seven high-end vehicles valued at more than €300,000 and two firearms were seized

25 Feb, 2020 @ 15:01

Crime & Law·Lead

Spain money laundering probe launched into football agent of Napoli’s Kalidou Kouliba and Juventus’ Miralem Pjanic

A criminal investigation has been launched into one of the world's most powerful football agents

25 Feb, 2020 @ 11:52

Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

British mum in Spain whose toddler wandered along 25-metre ledge while she was ‘in shower’ told she won’t face charges

The shocking video shows the girl climbing out of the window of the fourth floor family apartment

24 Feb, 2020 @ 19:59

Crime & Law·Lead·National News

EXCLUSIVE: Mother of British man killed by police on Spain’s Costa del Sol still has questions 18 months after her son’s death

THE family of a British man killed on the Costa del Sol are still demanding urgent answers, nearly 18 months after his death.

22 Feb, 2020 @ 10:00

Crime & Law·Lead

Robbers caught short in Murcia bar – three arrested whilst going equipped

POLICE have caught a trio of thieves red-handed robbing a Murcia bar in the early hours of Monday, February 17. As they tried to hide,

22 Feb, 2020 @ 09:32

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

FIND HIM: Spain asks British police to help track down rapist and killer of three teenage girls in infamous Alcasser case recently featured on Netflix

SPAIN has officially asked for collaboration with the UK authorities to track down a fugitive who raped and murdered three girls in Valencia back in

21 Feb, 2020 @ 15:40

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Playboy ‘mastermind’ of Mallorca’s biggest real estate scam returns to Palma

The ‘mastermind’ behind Mallorca’s biggest real estate swindle has finally been hauled back to the island after first being put behind bars in Madrid

21 Feb, 2020 @ 14:20

Crime & Law·Lead·Mallorca

Drunk driver arrested after running over four people in one day in Spain’s Andalucia

Policia Local have arrested a 53-year-old male tourist after a breathalyser test showed he was three times over the legal limit when he caused a

21 Feb, 2020 @ 12:20

Crime & Law·Lead·Sevilla

British expats’ community fees used to line pockets of corrupt president with €600,000 in southern Spain

A PRESIDENT of community owners used community fees to line his pockets to the tune of €600,000, police have claimed. A Policia Nacional probe revealed

20 Feb, 2020 @ 15:15

Cadiz·Crime & Law·Lead

IN PICS: Police arrest 20 and save six from suffocation in raid on underground tobacco factory on the Costa del Sol

Six people were found trapped inside the Malaga based factory with serious breathing difficulties after their air supply was cut by police unaware of their

20 Feb, 2020 @ 11:48

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga