True Detective

Eric Desvaux French Policeman

Wednesday, 19 December 2007

Eric Desvaux had "tarnished the reputation of a great state body." He was sentenced to nine months in jail, with three months suspended.
The 39-year-old, a former European swimming champion, was arrested in May after his girlfriend accused him of stealing a camera from the body of a man who died in a road crash. When police officers searched his home they found the stolen camera -- and a cannabis plantation.
In court, Desvaux did not deny he committed the crimes, but said he had suffered from relationship problems.

Robin Adkins

Robin Adkins, 43, was charged with possession of marijuana over 20 grams and introduction of contraband into a correctional facility, both third-degree felonies.
According to Volusia County
sheriff's deputies, Adkins was visiting her husband at Tomoka Correctional Institution, a state prison in Daytona Beach, when correctional officers said she was acting suspicious.
During the visit, Adkins went to the bathroom, and when she exited she was walking slowly with her arms clutched to her waist, deputies said. When she sat back down with her husband, officers said she appeared to be trying to remove something from the waistband of her pants.

The charge of trafficking carries the mandatory death sentence

Razali Ahmad, 33, of Gombak, was found guilty of trafficking in 858gm of cannabis which was found in his sling bag in a house in Jalan Dewan Gombak Setia, Gombak,Judicial Commissioner Abang Iskandar Abang Hashim ruled that the prosecution had failed to cast a doubt on the prosecution’s case.
The charge of trafficking carries the mandatory death sentence.
The prosecution called eight witnesses while Razali was the only witness for the defence.
Razali was represented by counsel James George while deputy public prosecutor Shoba Venu Gobal appeared for the prosecution.

Greek Orthodox nunnery

A Greek Orthodox nunnery was turned into a marijuana plantation by two men posing as gardeners for elderly nuns, police said on Tuesday.

Acting on a tip-off, officers raided the nunnery in the village of Filiro, near the northern port city of Thessaloniki, and found more than 30 large cannabis plants in the enclosed gard

Intent to Supply

woman who supplied counterfeit prescription drugs to the UK was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for money laundering offences. The woman from Uxbridge was arrested as part of a joint investigation between the City of London Police, and the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). Police officers, along with Enforcement Officers from the MHRA, found counterfeit prescription drugs worth over £250,000, including more than 50,000 units of one particular drug when they searched an address in November 2006. In addition, twelve passports were found hidden inside a suitcase and a total of 30 bank and visa cards were also recovered. The defendant was also charged with offences under the Identity Card Act. Investigators discovered that the drugs originated in Pakistan and were then mailed to the woman. She was paid in cash and this money was then credited to a bank account in a pseudonym used in one of the false passports. In July 2007 the defendant was subsequently charged with trademark offences, possession with intent to supply class C drugs and money laundering. Detective Constable Wilson McQuitty,City of London Police Economic Crime Department, said: "This woman was exploiting people who genuinely needed these drugs for her own personal gain. Together with colleagues from the MHRA we were able to take these drugs out of circulation and seize numerous fake documents and bank cards which were being used to launder the money she was making." Mick Deats, Head of Enforcement MHRA, said: "Today's result sends out a very clear warning that dealing in counterfeit medicines doesn't pay. The MHRA will continue to clamp down on those who flout the law and put the public's health at risk. People should ensure that they only obtain their medicines from legitimate outlets, e.g. their doctor or pharmacist. If people do not then there can be no guarantee to their safety, quality or indeed that they work. At best these medicines could be a waste of money, at worst they could be severely detrimental to your health." The woman was sentenced to 12 months for the false identity offences and 18 months for the two cases of possession with intent to supply Class C drugs.

Operation Nemesis

16 men and one woman were charged after 25 simultaneous drugs raids were conducted by Staffordshire Police in Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire. This was part of Operation Nemesis, Staffordshire Police's continuing crackdown on major drug dealers which resulted in 22 arrests. One man, who was arrested on suspicion of offences linked to counterfeit clothing including money laundering, was bailed pending further investigation. Officers seized numerous items of evidence including two firearms, various quantities of drugs, computer equipment, and significant amounts of cash

29-year old Sierra Leone national and 32-year old Nigerian

A 29-year old Sierra Leone national and 32-year old Nigerian travelling together on route to their homes in the London area were stopped by HMRC officers after arriving on a flight from Istanbul. HMRC has issued a statement today on a separate case in which officers arrested two women at Manchester Airport this week seizing about 14 kilos of cocaine in baggage with a street value of approximately £840,000. The women appeared at Manchester Magistrates charged with the illegal importation of Class A drugs this morning and have been remanded in custody

Vladimir Dimitrov Konstantinov

Police in Peru arrested a 38-years-old Bulgarian citizen at the international airport of Jorge Chávez with 12.97kg cocaine. Bulgarian Vladimir Dimitrov Konstantinov was to fly to Spain through Amsterdam, police said as quoted by EFE news agency. Konstantinov was arrested after sniffer dogs rushed to his luggage. When police officers opened his suitcases, they found the drugs divided in 13 packages, hidden between clothes

Bulgarian customs officers

Bulgarian customs officers and police and Portuguese police arrested two Bulgarian cocaine smugglers at Lisbon airport during a joint operation.
Portuguese police detained a 38-year-old man who organised the international drug-smuggling ring from Latin America to Western Europe, and a 30-year-old drug dealer, an Interior Ministry press release said.
The dealer traveled from Brazil to Portugal. He had swallowed 1.2 kg of capsuled cocaine.
Drug dealers who swallow capsules to smuggle the drug, usually intake from 0.6 to 0.8 kg of narcotic substance, the press release said.
Bulgarian and Portuguese authorities worked nearly four months to reveal the smuggling ring. The arrest of the two Bulgarians was the last of a series of related arrests.
Bulgarian police detained two men, who had swallowed 1.2 kg of cocaine, at Sofia airport in November 2006. Other two Bulgarian traffickers were arrested at Lisbon airport a week later, on December 8 2006.

The total quantity of cocaine seized from the related operations is 4,4 kg. The drug could have been sold for more than 180 000 euro on European markets.

death of a 23 year old Brasilian

death of a 23 year old Brasilian in Porto earlier this month wasn't reported in the English speaking press. He had swallowed 52 condoms of coke, 23 of which had been expelled in his hotel room and the rest found during an autopsy. The article from Brasil's Estado states the drug would result in 10,000 doses.

Katy Conner

died during a flight from Mexico to Birmingham. After she began bleeding from her nose and mouth and the flight was diverted to Terceira in the Azores. She died due to 60 packets of the stuff bursting in her stomach

secret mass graves

Friday, 14 December 2007

The Spanish government and judges might be instructed to cooperate in the investigation of scores of secret mass graves dating from the civil war (1936-39) and its aftermath. They may be forced to begin opening such graves and to identify the corpses lying within.
The graves are dotted all over Spain and their existence has been known to Spanish people for over 60 years. They are reported to contain the remains of more than 30,000 republican soldiers, militants and other opponents of Franco’s fascist dictatorship. The victims were either captured or detained during the civil war and executed later, or were summarily executed by falangists or Francoist troops in the days and months immediately after the war. Their bodies were flung into hurriedly dug graves by the roadside, at the bottom of cliffs or in the middle of fields. Some were grabbed; others were persuaded to give themselves up after being assured that nothing would happen to them if they did so.
According to campaigners, among the scores of uncovered mass graves are some containing more than one thousand corpses near Oviedo and Gijon in the north, Teruel in the east and Seville in the south. The biggest grave near Merida is believed to contain more than 3,500 bodies.

Puente Romano and the Marbella Club

The judge investigating the Hidalgo money laundering case in Marbella, Manuel Martin Hernandez-Carrillo, interrogated three people connected with the hotel group that owns the Puente Romano and the Marbella Club last week. One of them is said to be the director of one of the hotels. The director of the Marbella Club, Juan Carlos Luna, said he had never been ordered to appear before the judge and that he and the hotel had nothing to do with the case. A local newspaper said it had not been possible to contact the director of Puente Romano. The case had been conducted in absolute secrecy until September, when the court began to release some details of the involvement of the Cruz Conde lawyers’ practice, which also has connections with the Malaya case of urban development-related corruption in Marbella town hall.

30.000 dwellings

30.000 dwellings in the municipality which either have been built or are in the process of being built with illegally issued building licences. Basically, these were given in spite of the fact that they violated the 1986 Town Planning Regulation in force at present. The violations range from constructing houses on land not designated for building, for example in green belts or on land set aside for public facilities, to granting licenses in spite of the fact that buildings did not meet regulations or building codes, for example, building more homes or square metres on a plot than regulations allowed. Many of these dwellings have been completed and have been purchased by bona fide owners who have registered their title in the land registry and inhabit them. Now they have found out that they are illegal despite the fact that their solicitors had checked that the Land Registry showed the developer had a clean title and the latter had obtained a presumed legal building licence. Furthermore, in some instances the property even has a license known as the “First Occupation Licence” which is granted by the Town Hall and allows people to occupy their dwelling. Now some of these buildings are in danger of being demolished as result of court orders that declare their building licences null and void.

paid money to Judge Francisco Javier de Urquía

Thursday, 13 December 2007

The Andalucian High Court of Justice, TSJA, has said that ‘there is absolutely no doubt’ that Juan Antonio Roca, the ex municipal real estate assessor in Marbella Town Hall, paid money to Judge Francisco Javier de Urquía. The instruction judge in the Andalucian High Court, Miguel Pasqau, has thus ordered that the case proceed to a full hearing on the charges of perversion of the course of justice and bribery.
Charged are the judge, Francisco Javier de Urquía, who has now been removed from Court number two in Marbella, Juan Antonio Roca, and a man described as a friend of the two and named as Arnau Fabrice Albouhair.
Meanwhile, Ecologistas en Acción have denounced what they claim is the administrative perversion of the course of justice in Marbella Town Hall. They claim that the town hall’s decision not to revise the building licences of some 1,000 properties granted permission between July 1991 and March 2006 by the Jesús Gil administration amounts to that, as the permissions were granted illegally

Ken Macintyre, 64, was with a friend when they were attacked

Wednesday, 12 December 2007

Ken Macintyre, 64, was with a friend when they were attacked and robbed near Domino bar in the Spanish holiday resort in the early hours of Saturday morning.
A spokesperson for the Foreign Office confirmed: "A man was attacked in an old part of the resort of Benidorm. However, we do not believe that the mugging caused the man's death. We believe that a subsequent incident caused the death of one of the men."
Spanish police said that Mr Macintyre and his friend were both "well-known visitors" to Benidorm.

LISKA and BOHINC advertised and sold over the internet a product that they called BOOM

TIBOR LISKA and BLAKE BOHINC were arrested this afternoon on charges that they used interstate wires to market and sell, in the United States and abroad, the active ingredient in the prescription drug Viagra by falsely labeling it as a purely herbal supplement they called "BOOM!". According to a criminal Complaint filed today in Manhattan federal court:
From at least March 2006 through November 2007, LISKA and BOHINC advertised and sold over the internet a product that they called BOOM! -- purported to be a purely herbal supplement for the enhancement of sexual performance -- which was sold in individual packets containing chocolate-flavored powder. Internet advertisements for BOOM! claimed that the product was a "far safer" and "certainly less expensive" herbal alternative to Viagra.

Nigeria Arrests

32-year-old Ahukanna Chukwuka Daniel was caught by the law enforcement agents with hard drugs while boarding an Italian bound Alitalia aircraft from the airport.
Also caught was 36-year-old Ike Prince Chris, who attempted to smuggle some drugs to Germany aboard a KLM flight.
Only on last Friday, the anti drug agency, in a statement by its spokesman, Ofoyeju Mitchel said it had arrested one Mwaugo Magnus Emeka for attempting to beat the security point to export some drugs, through Ethiopian airline to Israel.

5 years for drug dealing

50 year old from Scotland who is doing 5 years for drug dealing. He filled me in pretty well on how the arrest and conviction process works over here. I must say it takes your breath away! When I think of the slack attitude most tourists in Bali have towards drugs when the reality is that possession is considered a serious offence and marijuana a Class A drug, I shudder. There are people here doing 20 years for drugs and they are going nowhere unless a Solution can be reached. My interviewee told me all about Solutions and it also blew me away.

Schapelle Corby

Schapelle Corby is languishing in a Balinese jail as are the Bali Nine, and now, a young woman of only 42 years of age is facing jail time in Lombok for her part in possessing and dealing drugs in Indonesia. At one time she was initially facing drug charges which carried a maximum penalty of death. A long-term resident of Lombok, Higgs ran a small resort with her husband Melvin before she was arrested after a raid on her home in February.
She was charged with using and dealing marijuana which is classed as a narcotic under Indonesia's tough drug laws. Prosecutors have demanded a one year jail sentence for the woman arrested in the city of Mataram for possession of 49.6 grams of marijuana. She told the police that she bought the drug for Rp 500,000 for her own use.

Bali Party Arrests

3 foreign men from Italy, Australia and Belgium were arrested at a Kerobokan villa during a raid on a party.
Its quite possible that some of those arrested had nothing to do with drugs, but were simply in the vicinity. In all likelihood the person who sold the drugs, heard about the upcoming party and informed on them. The Scottish fellow I interviewed inside Kerobokan jail a while back claimed he was arrested for being in the vicinity of a drug transaction, but had no part in it.

21 American citizens have died in custody in Mexico

21 American citizens have died in custody in Mexico and that "Mexican police regularly obtain information through torture."

The brains of the operation Malaya, Juan Antonio Roca

The brains of the operation Malaya, Juan Antonio Roca, the public prosecutor requested a sentence of 10 years in prison for money laundering, false documents, illegal possession of weapons, trafficking of influences and crimes against regional planning.The Judge said...
Óscar Pérez, the judge now in charge of the Malaya corruption investigation in Marbella, has decided to treat an order for French wines and champagne placed by the man at the centre of the corruption, Juan Antonio Roca, as separate from the main case. The prosecution service argues that the ex Municipal Real Estate assessor planned to pass the cost – more than 850,000 €, onto Marbella Town Hall, although Roca himself has denied the accusation. The investigation will determine if there is any evidence of fraud.
The Management Committee which ran the Town Hall after the Malaya case broke last year until a new local government was formed after the municipal election earlier this year, passed the invoice onto the Anti Corruption prosecutor in July 2006. It was made out to the Town Hall, for the attention of Roca, and included 350 bottles of ‘Petrus 1979,’ at 2,000 € each, and 50 bottles of ‘Dom Perignon,’ at 300 € a bottle.

"We rented a private plane to eat cus-cus in

"We spend four million pesetas in a birthday"
"We rented a private plane to eat cus-cus in
Marruecos ” Morocco "
"The least we always had at home were one hundred million pesetas"
"Julian Munoz has properties in Madrid Barcelona and Seville, and nothing is in your name, just in case."

Isabel PANTOJA MARTIN, born on 07 August 1956 in Seville (Seville), the son of John and Mary, owner of the National Identity Document number 28515553

Brief summary: Isabel PANTOJA MARTIN, born on 07 August 1956 in Seville (Seville), the son of John and Mary, owner of the National Identity Document number 28515553-S.
En Málaga, siendo las 00:05 horas, del día 3 de Mayo de 2007 y en cumplimiento de lo dispuesto en el artículo 520 de la Ley de Enjuiciamiento Criminal (L.O. 14/83), se procede a poner en conocimiento del epigrafiado que ha sido detenido por su participacíon en un presunto delito de BLANQUEO DE CAPITALES , así como de los derechos que le asisten, consistentes, fundamentalmente. In Malaga, with 00:05 hours of the day on May 3, 2007 and pursuant to the provisions of Article 520 of the Criminal Procedures Act (LO 14/83), is to draw the attention of epigrafiado has been arrested for his participacíon in an alleged crime of MONEY LAUNDERING, as well as the rights, consistent, basically.

Judge Torres just locate in Switzerland a chest Security 2 million Swiss francs

Judge Torres just locate in Switzerland a chest Security 2 million Swiss francs (1.2 million euros) was in the name of one of the presumed front of Rock. Francisco Antonio Soriano Pastor, abogado de Roca encarcelado e imputado por el caso Malaya, al salir de Alhaurín viajó hasta Andorra donde supuestamente intentó vaciar varias cuentas corrientes con dinero de Roca. Francisco Antonio Soriano Shepherd, a lawyer from Rock imprisoned and accused by the Malaysian case, to leave Alhaurín traveled to Andorra where allegedly tried to empty several accounts with money from Roca. Fue el pasado mes de Agosto, cinco meses después de las primeras detenciones. It was last August, five months after the first arrests. El juez Torres esta convencido que estaba rescatando fondos para Roca. The judge is convinced that Torres was rescuing funds for Rock. Dispone de cuentas en Isla de Man, Suiza, Islas Caimán, o las Islas Vírgenes. There are accounts in the Isle of Man, Switzerland, Cayman Islands, or the Virgin Islands.

Judah Binstock has returned to Marbella.

Judah Binstock has returned to Marbella. Muñoz. Just after closing the investigation of Malaya and go to Grenada Judge Torres, the multimillionaire Jewish reappeared, owner of the majority of land in the municipality and alleged sponsor of the motion of censure against Julian Munoz.

He did so in a wheelchair and surrounded by his "gorilla" at a gala dinner and without his wife Josie, who dared to speak a few days ago to journalists of "Tomato", accusing journalists of the situation in which located Marbella after Operation Malaya.

Although Binstock has official residence in Buenos Aires and Paris, where he lives and makes their business really is in Marbella. His immense mansion called Villa Magnolia and his company through which conducts all its business Corporation New Marbella.
How is it possible that in Operation Malaya to stop all those who were part of the motion of censure "amañada" Rock to drive Munoz of the mayoral race and is not acknowledged to testify to the alleged sponsor of this motion? Justice is still time to sit on the bench Judah Binstock. . He is now in Spain.

Judah Binstock connection to corruption in Marbella

An address book with telephone Montaner, Judah Binstock Aki Kuj wing and Raneapino
Among the documents seized Juan Antonio Roca following his arrest in April 2003, shortly before entering custody and work in the summary of the case soqueol, provides a comprehensive phone book, with names of relevant world politics, entertainment and urban businesses. The name "Judah", in allusion to British tycoon of Jewish origin Judah Binstock, is repeated several times. agosto de 2003. The businessman Binstock as he puts his hand that moved the threads of censure against former Mayor Julian Munoz in August 2003. Binstock's relations with the former councilors of tripartite Marbella Isabel Garcia Marcos and Carlos Fernandez, personal friends of the tycoon, are well known and are already spoken former Cabinet chief of the tránsfuga PSOE, Binstock, one of the largest owners of land in Marbella and controversial winner of the casino Sevillian Mairena del Aljarafe has background for various offenses in the UK, and has among its members the lawyer Engelbert Schereiber. This is a practicing lawyer from an office opened in the tax haven of Liechtenstein and accused in the summary by the attacks of 11 September in New York, for his alleged involvement in money laundering for the Al Qaeda terrorist network.

. As regards the former adviser of Public Works of the Board of Andalusia and architect by profession, Jaime Montaner, on the agenda of Rock seized in 2002 appears both a fixed number as a motive. Montaner was the architect who drafted the joint Hotel Senator Marbella, as well as the building of 99 houses sealed by the operator. In just three days, the former adviser got the permission after personally requested his handwriting.. The telephone listing, nine pages extension manuscripts, also appears in t eléfono mobile "A.ki" Kujala, one of the major players involved in the White Whale summary of the case by the alleged money laundering. De hecho, la sociedad Royal Marbella States S.L.. Indeed, the Royal Society SL Marbella States. administrada por Kujala, firmó al menos un convenio con el Consistorio marbellí que le permitió edificar una promoción de viviendas de lujo, anexa al hotel Puente Remano, contraria al Plan General de Ordenación Urbana (PGOU) de 1986. Administered by Kujala, at least signed an agreement with the Consistory Marbella that enabled him to build a promotion of luxury homes, annexed to the hotel Bridge Remano, contrary to the General Urban Plan (PGOU) from 1986. Another recurring phone for Rock in its agenda is the well-known promoter Murcian Olive Thomas, also accused in the summary of the case Malaya. Nombres del mundo del José Asenjo. Names of the bull as the world's clever trianero Emilio Munoz, or farmers or Saturnino Buendía Ignacio Gonzalez Sanchez Dalp also have their place in the address book seized, in addition to the singer's Rancapino or "particular" the former deputy leader and socialist Jose Asenjo.

Jomeh Gomshadzehi was hanged in the city of Zahedan

Friday, 7 December 2007

Jomeh Gomshadzehi was hanged in the city of Zahedan after being arrested with 3,300 kilos of opium, 84 kilos heroin, and 95 kilos of morphine. The state news agency IRNA identified him as a notorious drug trafficker who sent narcotics to Turkey and Arab states in the Gulf. It said that while trafficking drugs four years ago, he killed a policeman and then escaped to Dubai.

death penalty for drug dealing

The Philippines congress has approved and President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has signed a draconian new anti-drug measure, the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002. The act mandates the death penalty for drug dealing -- no matter how small the quantity -- or for possession of as little as 500 grams or marijuana (a pound is 454 grams), ten grams of opium, morphine, heroin, ecstasy, or cocaine, or 50 grams of methamphetamine, or "shabu," as it is called in the Philippines. The new law will go into effect in July.

"I want to deliver a message to all illegal drug traffickers to immediately close their business," said Rep. Antonio Cuenco (Cebu City) at a press conference at Malacanang Palace in Manila after President Macapagal-Arroyo signed the bill into law on June 7. "They have no future. If they are caught, they will be punished with life imprisonment or a death sentence," said Cuenco, one of the bill's most ardent proponents.

400 prisoners have been hanged in Singapore since 1991

400 prisoners have been hanged in Singapore since 1991, giving the small city-state possibly the highest execution rate in the world relative to its population of just over four million people. The execution figures include a significant percentage of foreign nationals. It is not known how many prisoners are currently on death row, but the shocking death toll from executions continues to rise.Most of those executed were convicted of drug trafficking

Trinh Nguyen Thuy

Trinh Nguyen Thuy and 32 of his associates on charges of trafficking and producing heroin, according to papers there.
According to the police investigation, the gang was responsible for bringing in about 200kg of heroin and almost 700 kg of opium from Laos to Vietnam between 2001 and 2003.
Thuy has also admitted to bribing officials so that he could be allowed to grow opium poppies on farms close to Hanoi city.
these actions would make Thuy’s gang one of the largest in Vietnam, a country that has very strict laws against the drug trade with the death penalty often enforced.

Nguyen Van Huy, aged 36, and his 39-year-old wife, Hoang Le Thuy

Nguyen Van Huy, aged 36, and his 39-year-old wife, Hoang Le Thuy, had 500 grams of heroin hidden away in bottles of medication in their baggage, as they attempted to fly from Ho Chi Minh City back to their hometown of Melbourne. Their three daughters, aged between two and 10, were travelling with them and have been handed over to relatives. They face possible decades away from their parents.

Barbara Higgs

Barbara Higgs is facing the local justice system over the seizure of 49.7 grams of marijuana at her residence in Lombok.
The interesting part of this case is the fact that Higgs is a permanent expatriate who lives in Indonesia and owns a hotel on Senggigi Beach tourist area. One might think an expat would be a little savvy to the local laws and know of the disproportionate punishments for drugs in the country.
Local sources supposedly tipped off police to the drugs in her possession.
Higgs allegedly also tested positive to Marijuana in her urine sample.
If convicted of the most serious charge, she will face the death penalty. The lesser charges she is facing will see her with between 4 and 20 years

Iwuchukwu Amara Tochi

Iwuchukwu Amara Tochi was hanged just before dawn on 26 January 2007. He had been caught with 727 grams of heroin in the transit area of Changi airport 2 years ago we gloat over the mules that we capture. Once caught, we put them on a conveyor belt to the hangman's rope. With the mandatory death penalty, there's no room for mitigation; we aren't able to offer them a reduced sentence in return for information that might lead to the capture of the drug lord. Why should they help law enforcers when they're going to be hanged anyway?

65% of all drugs in the UK had come from Jamaica.

Jamaican drug mules are reportedly paid between £2,000 (J$130,400) and £5,000 (J$335,000) for each trip.
The deputy head of the Jamaican narcotics police, Superintendent Glendon Wright, said a survey last year had shown that 65% of all drugs in the UK had come from Jamaica.four tonnes of cocaine is making its way into the UK each year through drug mules.

one in 10 air passengers from Jamaica were smuggling drugs

Jamaica's narcotics police have reportedly said "umpteen drugs couriers are travelling from Jamaica to the UK".

MARBELLA TOWN HALL

Thursday, 6 December 2007

MARBELLA TOWN HALL has put a reserve of 34,650 euros on the Rolls Royce that Jesus Gil used during his time as mayor. The present mayor of Marbella, Angeles Muñoz, announced last August that the Rolls was to be auctioned as it is no longer in use and is being held by the Local Police.
The decision was made to sell off the vehicle partly because of its value and also because of what it symbolises. The car was valued by a municipal specialist. The Rolls Royce along with the BMW X5 that ex-Mayor Marisol Yague used were sent to auction last year but not sold due to the lack of interest by the public. The Rolls Royce was valued at 45,000 euros and the BMW at 25,514 euros. The Rolls Royce Silver Spur was registered in 1992; it has eight cylinders and 173 horsepower. The luxury vehicle was used on various occasions for official undertakings and gala openings. Gil also enjoyed the use of limousines and horse-drawn carriages during his mayoral tenure.

Fernando del Valle

Fernando del Valle, the founder of the firm of lawyers in Marbella where he has focused the police investigation linked to the network of money laundering, has been hosting his constitutional right not to testify. El detenido no ha hablado ni ante la Policía, ni ante el juez que decretó el lunes por la noche su ingreso en prisión. The detainee has not spoken either to the Police or to the judge who ruled on Monday evening his detention.

Según fuentes cercanas al caso, Fernando del Valle, ha estado “muy tranquilo y sereno” durante las seis horas que ha permanecido en las dependencias del Juzgado de Instrucción número 5 de Marbella. According to sources close to the case, Fernando Valley, has been "very quiet and calm" during the six hours that has remained on the premises of the magistrate No. 5 in Marbella. El letrado, que desde el lunes por la noche está en prisión incondicional, se ha negado en todo momento a hacer declaraciones. The lawyer, who since Monday night is in prison unconditional, it has consistently refused to make statements.

El juez de Marbella (Málaga) Miguel Ángel Torres decretó en la madrugada del lunes la prisión incondicional para Fernando del Valle Vergara, chileno de 57 años, como presunto "cerebro" de la red de blanqueo de dinero que operaba en la Costa del Sol. The judge in Marbella (Malaga) Miguel Angel Torres ordered in the early hours of Monday unconditional prison for Fernando del Valle Vergara, a Chilean of 57 years, as alleged "mastermind" of the money laundering network operating on the Costa del Sol.

A media mañana del martes, del Valle ha ingresado en la prisión de provincial de Alhaurín de la Torre. At mid-morning on Tuesday, the Valley has entered the provincial prison of Alhaurin de la Torre.

Por el contrario, el juez ha dejado en libertad bajo fianza de 30.000 euros a una secretaria de su bufete, cuya identidad se desconoce. By contrast, the judge has been released on bail of 30,000 euros to a secretary of his law firm, whose identity is unknown.

Nueve de los 49 detenidos ya están en prisión Nine of the 49 detainees were already in jail

Con el ingreso en prisión del abogado Fernando del Valle, el juez Miguel Ángel Torres ha enviado ya a la cárcel a nueve de los 41 detenidos en esta operación, la mayor desarrollada en España contra el blanqueo de dinero. With the detention of lawyer Fernando del Valle, Judge Miguel Angel Torres has already sent to jail for nine of the 41 arrested in this operation, the largest developed in Spain against money laundering. Sin embargo, los arrestados podrían ser diez si se confirma la detención de un ciudadano francés que ha declarado esta madrugada y al que se pudo ver salir de los juzgados en un furgón policial, junto con un marroquí para que se decretó prisión. However, those arrested could be ten if it is confirmed the arrest of a French citizen who has declared this morning and saw that leave courthouse in a police van, along with a Moroccan who was ordered to prison.

El abogado Fernando del Valle, chileno de nacionalidad, de 54 años, se dio de alta en el Colegio de Abogados de Málaga el 10 de enero de 1980 con el número de colegiación 579. The lawyer Fernando del Valle, a Chilean national, 54 years old, was given up for the Bar Association of Malaga on January 10, 1980 with the number of membership 579.

Entre estas actividades ilegales que se podrían haber beneficiado de esta trama constan el tráfico ilícito de drogas, homicidios, tenencia ilícita de armas, prostitución coactiva, secuestros, ajustes de cuentas, estafas internacionales, evasión de impuestos y fraudes bursátiles, entre otras. These illegal activities that could have benefited from this scheme consists illicit drug trafficking, murder, illegal possession of weapons, prostitution coercive kidnappings, the settling of scores, international scam, tax evasion and securities fraud, among others.

Los agentes practicaron 15 detenciones el pasado jueves en ése despacho de letrados, en el corazón financiero de Marbella, mientras otras tres personas fueron arrestadas en la oficina de la misma empresa en el núcleo de población marbellí de San Pedro Alcántara. The players practiced 15 arrests last Thursday of lawyers in this office, in the financial heart of Marbella, while three others were arrested at the office of the same company at the heart of Marbella population of San Pedro Alcantara.

David Case, 44, Sebastian Stephen, 41

Sunday, 2 December 2007

David Case, 44, of Kingarth Street, Cardiff, and a second man, Sebastian Stephen, 41, of Adventurers Quay, Cardiff Bay – alleged to have been the mule organiser

Marianne Telfer

Marianne Telfer is one of a growing band of women who have found themselves in prisons around the world accused of acting as drug mules.

Hundreds of British women are currently serving time for drugs-related offences in prisons outside the UK.

from Dewsbury in West Yorkshire, and Bolton, Lancashire

The men, from Dewsbury in West Yorkshire, and Bolton, Lancashire, were reportedly planning to stash the drug in loudspeakers before smuggling it on to planes. They were arrested at a luxury hotel with 1kg of pure cocaine.

Katriya Connor, a 23-year-old chef

Katriya Connor, a 23-year-old chef from Liverpool, died after packages of cocaine exploded in her stomach during a flight from Cancún, in Mexico, to Birmingham.

Davena Payne, a 19-year-old student

Davena Payne, a 19-year-old student from central London, was arrested as she attempted to board a plane at Rio de Janeiro's international airport with more than 8kg of cocaine worth an estimated £300,000.

Nigerian women on drugs charges in UK jails has risen

The number of Nigerian women on drugs charges in UK jails has risen almost sixfold in three years, figures supplied to the BBC News website show.

On 30 June this year, 85 of the 151 Nigerian women in custody in the UK were being held for drugs offences. In 2002 there were just 15 out of 29.

“Dracuweed”

“Dracuweed” or super-hybrid marijuana is widely grown in the mountains of Michoacan, Mexico and is transported by every means imaginable, to include a tunnel system into the United States. This hybrid crop is usually fueled by a sophisticated irrigation system and is extremely resilient to pesticides. The Associated Press reports that this new ‘super grass’ yields double the amount of marijuana as the old conventional type of marijuana plant and is genetically improved to achieve this growth pattern. No reports as to the strength of Dracuweed have been drafted, and it is still “Super Bubba Kush”, “White Widow” and “Super Skunk weed” that top the charts on extreme highs and harsh crashes that leave a person brain dead for hours. Wouldn’t that be a productive person to have employed in the workplace!

Black tar Mexican heroin

Black tar Mexican heroin is mixed with an over-the-counter antihistamine found in products like Tylenol PM. Both the illegal and legal antihistamine drugs have the same effect; it acts like a depressant, and when mixed together with heroin it will slow a person down and could even result in death. In Dallas alone, approximately 20 students have died in the past two years in cases that are known. Cheese heroin is now widely used, say Dallas school officials, and addiction to the substance is as common as marijuana addiction. And once a child is addicted, where and from whom do they get the money to buy these illegal drugs? They steal, most commonly from their parents. And not just cash, because drug traffickers take credit cards numbers as currency for their business sales

lost his 15-year-old son to cheese

Fernando Cortez is getting involved. He lost his 15-year-old son to cheese earlier this year. Cortez swears his son wasn’t a user and is haunted by what-ifs. What if he had done this versus that? Would his son still be alive? In the end, Cortez has had to put away those thoughts and channel his grief into something that could save lives. He goes to Dallas schools, speaking out about his painful experience and giving out his cell phone number to anyone who needs to talk. He urges parents to do the same — talk to their kids.

Drug experts add this advice: don’t bury your head in the sand. If your child’s grades drop, he loses interest in the activities he once loved, if he changes friends, if he starts to have trouble at school … all of these are warning signs that need to be acted upon immediately. With drug dealers stepping up their efforts to target your kids, police and drug counselors say we should all make as much of an effort to keep them safe.

Something called “cheese” is killing kids.

In August of 2006, no one had even heard of it — so much so, that when a school district police officer first saw a bag of this drug, he thought it was fake. Now officials realize cheese is all too real; at least 21 kids have died from overdosing on it.

Cheese is a combination of black tar heroin and crushed up Tylenol PM tablets and hits of it sell for a buck or two. Like any type of heroin, cheese is highly addictive and deadly. If that’s not enough to scare you, there’s this: drug pushers cooked it up special for kids.

“Traditionally heroin is going to be an adult user drug,” says Dallas Independent School District Officer Jeremy Liebbe. “Black tar heroin is cooked on a spoon, mixed with liquid and injected. Meaning needles. Not many kids are wild about needles, so if you want to market heroin to kids you've got to come up with an alternative to it.”

POLICE have quashed an 'urban myth'

POLICE have quashed an 'urban myth' that a new drug called Strawberry Quick is being given to school children in Lincolnshire.
Lincolnshire Police say people have been informed of the new drug by e-mail and over the web.
A police spokesman said: "The message gives information about a drug which is allegedly known as Strawberry Quick.
"The message claims this drug, based on crystal meth, looks and smells like a strawberry sweet or type of confectionary and is being handed out to school children in school playgrounds.
"It also allegedly comes in several other flavours.
"It seems this message is a hoax or urban myth which originates from the USA.
"We have long advised parents and school teachers to instruct children not to accept sweets from strangers and such advice is still relevant but there is no truth in the rumours surrounding the use and supply of any such drug within Lincolnshire.
"Lincolnshire is a very safe place to live but we do discover children and young people using illegal drugs both inside and outside schools.
"We would ask for parents, school teachers and members of the public to be vigilant and to report any concerns or suspicions to the police. "However, they should disregard the information as described above and delete any e-mails they receive regarding the drugs supply."

It tastes like candy - often times like strawberry-flavored candy - but it's flavored methamphetamine

In their quest to lure new, younger clientele, drug dealers are mixing their wares with over-the-counter pain remedies and other familiar products - even candy - and peddling them under non-threatening names.

A new drug temptation has turned up in Grays Harbor County. It tastes like candy - often times like strawberry-flavored candy - but it's flavored methamphetamine. On the street, users call it "Strawberry Quick".

Users and investigators say some kids as young as 11 and 12 already use meth. Now with a new evolution in meth production - meth with the coloring, look and flavor of sugar candy - they worry even younger kids will be lured by the drug.

Leroy Carr made his first appearance in U.S. District Court

Leroy Carr made his first appearance in U.S. District Court in Seattle on Monday. He's charged with possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, according to a news release issued by federal prosecutors.

Both U.S. and Canadian law enforcement officers have contacted Carr numerous times over the past nine months in the vicinity of the border. He almost always was carrying large amounts of cash, night-vision goggles and a hand-held GPS unit containing the coordinates of a well-known smuggling trail, the news release states.

SAA employees, including a pilot,

SAA employees, including a pilot, had been arrested in countries such as Brazil, Australia and the United Kingdom since 2000.

Lindiwe Harriet Luthuli, 40

stewardess Lindiwe Harriet Luthuli, 40, pleaded guilty to smuggling 5kg of cocaine and 10kg of herbal cannabis - valued at about £325 000 (more than R3,5-million) - into the United Kingdom. She is expected to be sentenced in Isleworth Crown Court

South African Airways is battling to control a growing drug-smuggling epidemic

South African Airways is battling to control a growing drug-smuggling epidemic among its own staff - with three stewards arrested on charges of cocaine and dagga smuggling in the past seven months.

The airline though is adamant that the problem is not isolated to SAA, but an international problem.

Anthony Cruz, 16

Anthony Cruz, 16, was stopped by customs officials as he arrived on an American Airlines flight from Santiago in the Dominican Republic. X-rays of his body revealed 80 balloons of heroin with a total weight of 988 grams (nearly 1 kilo and more than 2 pounds). According to officials, the heroin was worth $500,000.

Gordon Vuong was 16

Gordon Vuong was 16 in January last year when he was arrested at Phnom Penh airport with more than two kilograms of heroin strapped to his body.

He was subsequently convicted and sentenced to serve 13 years in a Cambodian prison.

caught with heroin strapped to his body at Phnom Penh airport

The Federal Government has confirmed that the Australian Federal Police did play a role in the arrest of an Australian teenager who's been jailed for drug trafficking in Cambodia.

In a case which has similarities to Bali Nine drug trafficker Scott Rush, Gordon Vuong was caught with heroin strapped to his body at Phnom Penh airport in January last year.

His mother has told the Bulletin magazine that she gave the AFP information about her son, but she says she hoped the police would use it to stop him leaving Australia to traffic drugs.

latest drug mule captures

.Osvaldo Aldrete Davila, the drug smuggler who was shot in the buttocks by El Paso Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean in 2007, was arrested on drug charges at the Zaragoza Bridge this morning, officials with the U.S. Attorney's office said.
Aldrete was arrested by agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General on a sealed indictment charging him with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana, and with possession with intent to distribute marijuana in September and October 2007.

Type of arrest Number of arrests United States

Saturday, 24 November 2007

Estimated totals of top seven arrest offenses in the United States, 2005

Total arrests* 14,094,200
Drug abuse violations 1,846,400
Driving under the influence 1,371,900
Simple assaults 1,301,400
Larceny/theft 1,146,700
Disorderly conduct 678,200
Liquor laws 597,800
Drunkenness 556,200

*Arrest totals are based on all reporting agencies and estimates for unreported areas.
Source: FBI, Uniform Crime Reports, Crime in the United States, annually.

future of houses already built on land too near the beaches

Thursday, 22 November 2007

future of houses already built on land too near the beaches, as has happened, for example, in El Palo, Pedregalejo and La Araña. What is going to happen to these houses?

The document proposes that these areas be planned all over again, and this will be the opportunity to do it in a rational way, taking the environment into account much more than before.

Can the local inhabitants of these areas be sure their houses will not be knocked down?

Owners of houses built on public land need not worry; we are working to find a reasonable solution for all concerned.

We have much the same situation in areas like Banana Beach in Marbella, the El Castillo area in Manilva, a building belonging to the Unicaja banking group in Arroyo de la Miel and the La Rada Hotel in Estepona. What’s going to happen in these cases?

First let me say that all cases have to be looked into one by one, and in many cases we are already working on a solution. There are also cases in which we are considering moving the buildings in question, because they have been badly located in the first place. They do nothing for the surrounding areas they are in, and given the possible effects of climate change in the future, they will become a risk. We should not close our eyes, therefore, to any possibility. We must search for urban planning solutions in areas we have no direct control over, and these solutions must respect the rights of property owners, ensuring that they will not lose their properties and have them in less vulnerable areas.

several concrete blocks chained to his feet.

Wednesday, 7 November 2007

The body of a 34 year old man, who was reported missing ten days ago, was found last Sunday lunchtime by a fisherman at the bottom of the River Júcar with several concrete blocks chained to his feet.

The victim, who was from Cullera, but worked in a meat processing factory in Torrent, was found in an inaccessible spot located roughly halfway between Cullera and Sueca, known locally as 'L'Astut'.

Attempts to contact the victim by mobile phone immediately following his disappearance were unsuccessful, and his car was subsequently found parked in the nearby town of Sollana.

Nick Baker, 32, was sentenced by Chiba District Court

Saturday, 3 November 2007

Nick Baker, 32, was sentenced by Chiba District Court, near Tokyo, on Thursday for violating the narcotic control act and customs act.

He was also fined 5 million yen (£25,470), a court official said.

Juan Carlos Ramírez-Abadía

Juan Carlos Ramírez-Abadía - a 44-year-old Colombian accused by US authorities of ordering hundreds of executions and smuggling billions of dollars worth of cocaine into the US was caught.

Katriya Connor, a 23-year-old chef from Liverpool,

Katriya Connor, a 23-year-old chef from Liverpool, died after packages of cocaine exploded in her stomach during a flight from Cancún, in Mexico, to Birmingham.

The men, from Dewsbury in West Yorkshire, and Bolton, Lancashire

arrested three British men who they alleged were planning to set up a cocaine trafficking network between South America and the UK.

The men, from Dewsbury in West Yorkshire, and Bolton, Lancashire, were reportedly planning to stash the drug in loudspeakers before smuggling it on to planes. They were arrested at a luxury hotel with 1kg of pure cocaine.

British citizen named by police as Allan Grinham

British citizen named by police as Allan Grinham was arrested trying to board an Iberia flight to Europe with more than 6kg of cocaine.

Davena Payne, a 19-year-old student from central London

Davena Payne, a 19-year-old student from central London, was arrested as she attempted to board a plane at Rio de Janeiro's international airport with more than 8kg of cocaine worth an estimated £300,000.

30,000 illegally constructed homes in Marbella

The ex Prime Minister, José María Aznar, is now known to have purchased an attic in an illegally built urbanisation in Marbella in 2005. The building, Hoyo 15 in Guadalmina Baja, goes against the 1986 Urban Plan, and is part of an estimated 30,000 illegally constructed homes in Marbella.

Julián Muñoz deposited a €50,000 euros bail payment

Julián Muñoz deposited a €50,000 euros bail payment pertaining to charges arising from a money-laundering investigation unrelated to the 'Malaya' investigation into property development-related corruption, at Marbella court this morning.

On the 21st September, Muñoz's lawyers posted a first bail payment of €50,000 euros pertaining to the 'Malaya' case itself, but their client will remain behind bars for the forseeable future as Muñoz is currently serving two consecutive 12 month sentences having already been convicted as part of the 'Proinsa' and 'Moansa' urban fraud and corruption investigations.

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