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Top Spanish tourist resort Salou, in Tarragona, has passed local bylaws which stop men walking shirtless through several of the town’s central streets and public places. Women are restricted from wearing bikinis in the same streets as well as in public buildings such as the library, market, civil centre etc.A statement from the Town Hall said that they wanted to establish a balance between the rights and obligations of the citizens, and it comes...
A court in the Spanish city of Malaga sentenced an elderly Finnish couple to three years and three months imprisonment after finding them guilty of engaging in money laundering for several years on Spain’s Costa del Sol. The two were also ordered to pay EUR 1.3 million in fines. The court found that Aimo Veikko Voutilainen and Maria Leena Voutilainen had laundered nearly EUR 800,000 through...
