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SPECIAL REPORT: How €680 million of Junta de Andalucia cash was embezzled in ERE scandal, Spain’s biggest EVER public...

Laurence Dollimore - 8 Dec, 2019 @ 10:01

OVER €25,000 per month on cocaine, €400,000 for a fake chicken farm and thousands on bottomless gin and tonics

Andalucia

Olive Press helps Sky News track Prince Andrew in Southern Spain as royal flees questions over links to paedo...

Staff Reporter - 21 Aug, 2019 @ 11:20

As well as attending a friends 50th birthday, he has been seen playing golf at Spain's most expensive golf course, Valderrama, which costs €400 a round, not including a buggy

Crime & Law

New leaked ‘Operacion Kitchen’ documents reveal how Spain’s Partido Popular leaders siphoned off millions for suits and a wedding

Elisa Menendez - 21 Nov, 2018 @ 15:56

Revealed in a series of hand-written notes, kept by former PP treasurer Luis Barcenas, the documents demonstrate how the party was illegally funded on a national scale

Business & Finance

Podemos leader faces confidence vote after ‘luxury’ home purchase

Joe Wallen - 26 May, 2018 @ 12:13

THE members of Spain’s anti-austerity party Podemos are to vote on whether it's leader should step down after buying a €600,000 ‘luxury’ home. The party’s...

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PARTY’S OVER: Thomas Cook set to call time on boozy Club 18-30

Elisa Menendez - 14 May, 2018 @ 12:57

After almost 50 years of providing infamous parties for young Brits abroad, the travel company is set to sell the brand to cater to millennials' changing holiday tastes

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President of Madrid, Cristina Cifuentes, renounces masters qualification and apologizes to university in Spain

Elisa Menendez - 17 Apr, 2018 @ 11:34

The Conservative politician claims she has not done anything illegal but blames the university for 'administrative irregularities'

Crime & Law

Distribution company will also sue over Mallorcan meat scandal

Joe Wallen - 13 Apr, 2018 @ 16:20

THE distribution company connected to the rotten meat scandal has announced that they too will take the dodgy company to court. The Association of Food...

Lead

ESSAY: Why do politicians in Spain never resign?

Staff Reporter - 7 Apr, 2018 @ 10:40

As more scandal emerges over a leading politician’s faked university degree, Lenox Napier asks: ‘why do politicians never resign in Spain?’ SPAIN’S leading political problem...

Andalucia

Spanish politicians in Mijas are not all the same, says leading expert

Staff Reporter - 18 Feb, 2018 @ 10:27

Writes Bill Anderson

Andalucia

FIVE year investigation into Spain’s biggest ever public money fraud scandal sees 275 people probed but NOT ONE charged

Laurence Dollimore - 9 Sep, 2017 @ 11:27

THE investigation into Spain’s biggest ever public money fraud, the ERE scandal, is now into its fifth year...but the authorities have yet to prosecute...

Politics

Ex-Junta bosses Chaves and Grinan set to be prosecuted in €855 million ERE fraud scandal

Joe Duggan (Reporter) - 8 Jun, 2016 @ 19:00

Junta heads on the block

Opinion

FIFA’s foul play

Rob Horgan - 14 Jun, 2015 @ 16:30

The arrests of 14 FIFA delegates and the publication of tales of corruption are long overdue

Opinion

I know nothing: Chaves plays dumb in ERE scandal

Tom Powell - 15 Apr, 2015 @ 12:13

Just like his famous comedy name-sake from Fawlty Towers, Manuel Chaves insisted this week: ‘I know nothing’

Politics

Ex-Junta de Andalucia president Manuel Chaves claims ignorance on Spain’s biggest public money scandal

Iona Napier - 14 Apr, 2015 @ 18:40

Ex-Junta president insists he ‘would have acted’ had he known about €855 million ERE fraud

Lead

Princess Cristina to stand trial for tax fraud

Jacqueline Fanchini (Reporter) - 23 Dec, 2014 @ 15:28

The Infanta is to be tried in relation the her husband's charity scandal

Andalucia

Is Spain’s Catholic church on its knees?

Tom Powell - 13 Dec, 2014 @ 11:00

The Spanish church is in freefall after a scandal exposed a sinister paedophile sect, praying on youngsters. Are its days of influence numbered, asks Jacqueline Fanchini and Tom Powell

Lead

Bankia produced rigged accounts to sell stocks to investors

Jacqueline Fanchini (Reporter) - 6 Dec, 2014 @ 10:30

The state-owned lender Bankia presented error-strewn accounts during its corruption probe

National News

Health Minister Ana Mato resigns over Gurtel scandal allegations

Tom Powell - 27 Nov, 2014 @ 12:35

Judge Pablo Ruz accused her of benefiting from illegal party kickbacks

Andalucia

BREAKING: Ex-Junta de Andalucia bosses to be probed over links to ERE fraud scandal

Imogen Calderwood - 14 Nov, 2014 @ 11:23

Manuel Chaves and Jose Antonio Grin to be investigated by the Supreme Court

National News

Childhood friend of arrested Francisco Granados linked to massive corruption case

Jacqueline Fanchini (Reporter) - 10 Nov, 2014 @ 13:55

Builder David Marjaliza received large transfer from Granados' Swiss bank account

Business & Finance

Bank chairmen ordered to pay millions of euros following ‘magic’ card expenses scandal

Rob Horgan - 22 Oct, 2014 @ 10:29

Former chairman of Caja Madrid and Bankia ordered to pay €19 million by today or face their assets being seized in the wake of Spain's expenses scandal

Andalucia

BREAKING: Mayoress of Manilva resigns from office

Rob Horgan - 17 Oct, 2014 @ 14:21

Antonia Munoz Vazquez has stepped down from her position as Mayoress of Manilva, amidst administration scandal

Business & Finance

Spanish politicians and bankers targeted by expenses scandal investigations

Rob Horgan - 13 Oct, 2014 @ 11:51

Dozens of politicians, bankers and financial advisers embroiled in expenses scandal as Caja Madrid and Bankia come under investigation

Andalucia

Torremolinos PSOE leader grilled over connection to massive training course fraud scandal in ‘circus-like’ council meeting

Jacqueline Fanchini (Reporter) - 9 Sep, 2014 @ 17:00

Torremolinos mayor demands the town's PSOE leader explain his connection to the scandal, as the meeting descends into a 'circus'

Andalucia

Ex-Andalucian tax boss arrested in €2 billion corruption scandal

Imogen Calderwood - 14 Aug, 2014 @ 16:37

Angel Ojeda charged in Spain's 'biggest ever fraud case'

National News

Magaluf nightclub closed following ‘mamading’ oral sex scandal

Imogen Calderwood - 30 Jul, 2014 @ 14:17

Carnage Magaluf bar crawl facing large fines

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