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Georgian mafia henchman extradited to Spain | Olive Press Newspaper | News Spain: "right-hand man of Georgian mafia boss is being extradited to Spain.
Leon Lann, aka Leonid Kaplan, managed Costa del Sol real estate investments for gang leader Zakhar Kalashov.
Kalashov was sentenced...
Strip club assault charge: "Christopher Brian Neilson, 28, has been charged with assaulting Maxwell Chapman about 6am on Tuesday.
CCTV footage showed Mr Chapman being knocked unconscious with an elbow strike to the head before his attacker walked away. He has regained consciousness but remained in intensive care yesterday.
Neilson appeared in Melbourne Magistrates Court on Thursday.
Charged with intentionally and recklessly causing serious injury...
Euro Weekly News | 1093 days since Amy Fitzpatrick vanished | Costa del Sol | News | The Largest English Language Newspapers in Spain: "1,093 days since teenager Amy Fitzpatrick vanished into thin air near her home on the Costa del Sol. Amy's disappearance on New Year’s Day,...
'Drug lord' gets bail: "ALLEGED drug lord Hakan Ayik - one of Australia's most wanted men - has been granted bail by a Turkish Cyprus court despite fleeing capture there before.
Ayik is alleged to be the co-ordinator of a drugs syndicate stretching across several countries and...
Euro Weekly News | Marbella-based British company named in nation-wide fraud | Costa del Sol | News | The Largest English Language Newspapers in Spain: "GUARDIA CIVIL are investigating a possible fraud which has affected parents with children in schools throughout Spain. A company based in Marbella, Forward Press (Europe) Ltd, organized a short story contest for young writers in schools all over the country.
Diplomas were handed out to the...
Wanted drug trafficker arrested in Calahonda bar | Olive Press Newspaper | News Spain: "TWO British thugs have been snatched by Spanish police.
Dennis Patrick O’Brien of Liverpool, 61, and a 43-year-old Mancunian known by initials K.P.G have been arrested last week on Mijas Costa.
The...
WikiLeaks: How U.S. tried to stop Spain's torture probe | McClatchy: "Don't indict former President George W. Bush's legal brain trust for alleged torture in the treatment of war on terror detainees, warned Mel Martinez on one of his frequent trips to Madrid. Doing so would chill U.S.-Spanish relations.
Rather than a resolution, though, a senior Spanish diplomat gave the former GOP chairman and housing secretary a lesson in Spain's separation of...
PressTV - 'UK behind 2009 Iran assassinations': "terrorists involved in the assassination of three people in the western Iranian city of Marivan last year have confessed that British intelligence services were behind the attack.
The terrorists shot dead the second son of Mamousta Mostafa Shirzadi, Marivan's Friday prayers leader, along with two of his friends on July 5, 2009. The three victims were Sunnis.
Following a month of investigation, Iran's...
Net closes on Assange: arrest by British police expected in days - Home News, UK - The Independent: "Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, is expected to be arrested in the coming days after Swedish prosecutors filed a new warrant with British authorities.
The Independent revealed yesterday that a procedural error with the European Arrest Warrant had delayed the arrest of the 39-year-old Australian, who is wanted in Sweden over sexual allegations...
More than 200,000 € worth of fake 500 € notes have been found in the room of a Málaga hotel. As if in a Hollywood film the notes were found behind the air conditioning grill in one of the rooms by a worker in the in the city centre.
The room supervisor noted that the grill had been forced and found the notes behind, then calling the National Police.
The notes have been set to Madrid to confirm they are counterfeit, and an investigation has been...
Christopher Kinahan and his two sons, Christy Junior and Daniel walked out of the Albolote Prison in Granada on Friday
María del Carmen Gutiérrez Henares, in Court Number 3 in Estepona authorised the release from prison for his two sons, Christy Junior and Daniel, with bail set at 60,000 € for each one of the three.
Reports indicate that they all left the Albolote prison in Granada on Friday
They have been held on remand since May when the police...
