Now have the figures of the corruption in Marbella Malaya scandal when the former Mayor’s Julián Muñoz, Marisol Yagüe, her deputy Isabel García Marcos and the big boss in the Malaya José Antonio Roca, who was town planning advisor plus 100 more people in Marbella community, Marbella police, councilors and business people. The money thought to have been laundered during the infamous ‘Malaya’ case in Marbella has been calculated at around 670 million euros.
Most of this involves payments received in exchange for ‘favors’ relating to building development in the city, say police. They have given quicker buildings licenses for apartments, villas and other properties. They sold community plots illegal and gave license for building on them. It is said to have been laundered by up to 26 people who worked according to the orders of the alleged ringleader, former town planning assessor for Marbella Juan Antonio Roca.
The suspects are spread across Spain and include six lawyers from a firm in Madrid. In addition to property development corruption on the Costa del Sol – and particularly in and around Marbella – the ‘Malaya’ case is believed to have involved homes built in Los Alcázares (Murcia).
December 10th, 2009 at 6:05 am
Sounds like a bad deal! I am sure there are many more out there. Thank goodness they caught them and hopefully things all work out!
December 10th, 2009 at 8:38 am
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December 18th, 2009 at 9:46 am
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January 14th, 2010 at 7:40 am
Any leads on the people involved getting charged. It’s a bad deal when people in local government are running bad operations.
January 20th, 2010 at 4:02 pm
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