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Employees under investigation

SUSANA ZAMORA

...their financial situation and because they were afraid that even with the evidence they wouldn't be able to sack the employee. "Some of them don't think it's worth carrying out an investigation when it is going to cost them money and may not even lead ... These investigations are billed by the hour. They need careful planning, an analysis of needs and the preparation of a budget. "A work-related investigation lasting two or three days can cost between 1,000 and 2,500 euros," says Rojas.

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Who set fire to the Sierra Bermeja?

As the smoke has cleared and the flames have died in the Sierra Bermeja, the question has shifted from "when" and "how much" to "who" and "why." Specialists from the Forest Fire Investigation Brigade (BIIF) and the Seprona nature protection branch ... Hence, the head of Junta has called for the public’s help with the investigation. BIIF and Seprona are already working on a reconstruction of the fire from the two sources. At this time, all the hypotheses are open, and, among other lines of ... investigation, the agents are collecting information from previous cases in the area. The Sierra Bermeja has suffered several other forest fires this year. The first was in May, when a little more than three hectares burned. The second was in July and 350

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One dead and four injured, two seriously, in head-on crash in Cártama

JUAN CANO

...the western Costa del Sol, at kilometer 1.2 the 112 Andalucíe emergency services control centre confirmed. For reasons that are still being investigation, the lorry collided head-on with one of the vehicles and these, in turn, with two others. The

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Costa currency exchange agencies in 52-million-pound money laundering investigation

SUR

Spain's National Police force and the customs surveillance service have dismantled a network of currency exchange agencies in Fuengirola for allegedly laundering more than 52 million pounds of criminal proceeds. To do this, they pretended to offer

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Regional president says Sierra Bermeja fire was started deliberately: "with dead leaves, a pine cone and a lighter"

JOSÉ MARÍA MARTÍN

The president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, has said this Saturday that the fire investigation brigade has found signs that the fire was started deliberately. It appears that remains of the same fire-lighting method had been found at

Local

Police smash a gang that supplied rental vehicles to other criminals

ÁLVARO FRÍAS / JUAN CANO

A gang, which allegedly specialised in providing rental vehicles to other criminal organisations, has been uncovered after an investigation was sparked by Local Police officers in Malaga. National Police officers took over the case after Local ... Police officers in Malaga stopped a vehicle and found its occupants were carrying 99,940 euros in cash, which they could not explain. During the investigation, the National Police officers discovered the vehicle that was stopped was a rented and

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Brit arrested in Estepona accused of hacking 130 Twitter accounts, including those of Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Bill Gates

ÁLVARO FRÍAS / FERNANDO TORRES

...arrested by Spain’s National Police force this Tuesday (20 July), following investigations initiated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and with the collaboration of authorities in the UK. The investigations began in July of last year after the

National

Investigation launched after 73-year-old woman died following her second Covid jab

EUROPA PRESS

The Andalusian Ministry of Health is investigating the death of a 73-year-old woman from the Cadiz town of Olvera after receiving her second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. This has been confirmed by the head of the Junta’s vaccination programme, Dav

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The Sierra Bermeja wildfire forces the closure of the AP-7, near Estepona, to traffic again

JUAN CANO / JOSÉ MARÍA MARTÍN

...well as the firefighting teams from Malaga province. The fire started at 9.37pm on Wednesday in two different zones, which opens up the possibility that it was started intentionally, something that the specialists from the Forest Fire Investigation

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Junta's head: 'If the fire was started deliberately, we will hunt down the killers'

JUAN CANO

...above 45 kilometres an hour,” he said. The Junta’s head said that there are too many "coincidences" to not believe that the fire was not started deliberately. However, he pointed out that the investigation into the cause of the fire has yet to be