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ÁLVARO FRÍAS / JUAN CAÑO
The convicted boss of a mafia-style organisation, born in Italy in 1968, and with initials P. G. F., was arrested by Fuengirola police last week, after being caught using his mobile phone while driving. Plain-clothes officers became suspicious of
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SUR
The so-called 'Operación Marverick II', orchestrated by the organised crime unit of the Guardia Civil (UCO), has led to the arrest of 14 people - 13 of whom are in prison - part of the Banda della Marranella offshoot of the Camorra mafia group
Opinion
Héctor Barbotta
The only thing we feel invaded by is the mafia-style gangs. It seems as though this has nothing to do with the local population and that's how we should treat it. The same happened some time ago, until a stray bullet fired by a clumsy hitman ended ... the life of a child who was passing by. That episode, back in 2004, brought an end to the absurdly mistaken criteria that had been adopted by the majority of citizens, and also the authorities, which made us think that mafia gangs and decent people
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Alberto Gómez
Police have held “an important leader” of the Ndrangheta mafia, based in Calabria, Italy. Officers were following instructions from the Italian authorities. The man was detained in the pizzeria he owns in Benalmádena and was wanted on a drugs
LifeStyle
A. J. LINN
But tell all this to Francesco, a Sicilian winemaker, and he laughs bitterly. “My problems,” he remarks, “are never-ending.” He is referring to the battle between farmers and the rural mafia. Looking around it is obvious he considers his winery to ... big-time mafia bosses have by and large been dealt with in high profile court proceedings, and are serving time. Their properties have been confiscated by the state, and the law was changed to enable them to be handed over to local cooperatives dedicated ... to winemaking. The thousands of vineyards already being exploited in this way produce wine with the label stating “Made in vineyards confiscated from the Mafia.” Many wines are dedicated by name to victims of Mafia violence. However all this
Opinion
ANDREW J. LINN
Italian winemakers are particularly malicious when it comes to attacking the competition, and mafia-style methods are common. We heard last week of two cooperatives that had been broken into at night, the intruders opening the taps of all the tanks
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JULIO RODRÍGUEZ
Guardia Civil operation against an organisation that was allegedly linked to mafia groups operating on the Costa del Sol. Two others, Oleg Kuznetsov, the main shareholder in the firm Aguas Sierra de Mijas, and Arnold Tamm, the alleged leader of the ... of the top members of the Russian mafia group known as Solntsevkaya. Tamm, whose real surname is Spivalovski, is allegedly “closely linked” to Semion Mogilevich, the leader of the organisation and one of the FBI's most wanted criminals since 2009, in
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JULIO RODRÍGUEZ
...a Guardia Civil operation against an organisation that was allegedly linked to mafia groups operating on the Costa del Sol. Two others, Oleg Kuznetsov, the main shareholder in the firm Aguas Sierra de Mijas, and Arnold Tamm, the alleged leader of ... considered by the Guardia Civil as one of the top members of the Russian mafia group known as Solntsevkaya. Tamm, whose real surname is Spivalovski, is allegedly "closely linked" to Semion Mogilevich, the leader of the organisation and one of the FBI's most
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SUSANA ZAMORA
...year, the mafia groups have become more violent. They now confront the security forces over packages of drugs, they recently attacked the local hospital to rescue a member of their gang who had been arrested and they harassed a female judge in the street ... million euros a year are defrauded from the State coffers because of the smuggling carried out by over 30 mafia groups in La Línea. National Police officers are assigned to Cadiz province, half of them in the Campo de Gibraltar. Another 25 per cent are ... needed. A similar number of of Guardia Civil officers are based in the headquarters in Cadiz and Algeciras. Hierarchy The 'army' of collaborators with the drug mafias include 'aguadores' (informers) who earn between 1,000 and 2,000 euros; 'paqueteros'
Opinion
ANDREW J. LINN
There is no rule that it has to come from Provence, and many wine-producing areas make excellent rosados, including Spain's Navarra and Somontano. In fact the business is showing signs of mafia-type practices. The sommelier of a top New York restaurant
Opinion
ANDREW J. LINN
...and mafia involvement. But it is precisely these federal-created statutes that have allowed New York, for example, to permit the setting up of a huge 80-million-dollar project for making marijuana-derived products. Although the New York initiative will
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Pilar Martínez
Boutique della Mafia, an Italian restaurant, and a food-court concept including Italian, Mexican and Asian food. There will also be a better 'grab& go' selection including Jamie's Deli, Eat and Giraffe Stop, among others.
Sport
JULIO RODRÍGUEZ
...year since Grinberg was arrested and imprisoned after police searches at the Marbella Football Club offices and at his home as part of the Operation Oligarkh investigation into alleged Russian mafia organisations on the Costa del Sol. In February he was
Sport
Julio Rodríguez
...unravel when Grinberg was arrested as part of 'Oligarkh’ operation against Russian mafia activities and was kept in prison from September 2017 until 8 February this year. Despite publicly declaring that Marbella was “not for sale", Grinberg opened talks
Opinion
Héctor Barbotta
...in doubt the condition of these people in their time of need and speculating about a Judeo-Masonic conspiracy involving the migrants themselves, the mafias that trade in their desperation, the non-governmental organisations that save them from
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ALBERTO GÓMEZ
Behind the illegal hawkers are several mafia-style organisations that supply the goods, the majority of them fakes, stored on industrial estates. The mafias force the migrants to endless working days, exposed to arrest at any moment. Tired of this
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The mafia is leaving the Costa del Sol. That may sound like a news item, but it actually refers to the actors in Snatch, with Rupert Grint (Harry Potter's friend in the film series) in the lead, after four months touring the province from top to
Opinion
Héctor Barbotta
Some might think that at this stage we didn't ought to be surprised or scared when someone talks of mafia organisations linked with drug trafficking being set up on the Costa del Sol. For a long time now international criminal organisations have
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JAVIER GUILLENEA
...and driven to Spain. The transport of puppies younger than three months is banned, but the mafias ignore this rule. Usually the puppies are younger than 20 days old and they travel without any vaccinations despite their adoption papers saying that they ... of them die a few days after being sold for a low price by the mafias who act as tradesmen. They receive and distribute the pets which have arrived in Spain from Eastern Europe. euros is the average price for a puppy which has been brought in