December 2022

A Valencia-based tax scam involving cars imported from Germany defrauded over €14 million from Spain’s tax coffers. 23 people- Spanish and Romanian nationals- have been arrested across Valencia Province in Torrent, Betera, Lliria, Pobla de Vallbona, Marines, and Olocau in addition to Valencia City. They’ve been charged with defrauding the Public Treasury and money laundering. […]

ALICANTE authorities are said to be astonished after a wanted kidnap gang leader turned himself in to police in Cadiz province, only for a judge to bail him. The Guardia Civil made a nationwide appeal last month to find Carlos Garrido Delgado, the alleged mastermind behind an Alicante kidnapping plot in June to prise out

THE NATIONAL Police have detained a 22-year-old man in Benidorm after his partner fell to her death on Thursday from the window of a sixth-floor flat. The suspect insisted that the tragic incident was accidental. Both the arrested man and the victim, who was also aged 22, had Spanish nationality and were residents of the

A pair of crack houses have been raided by police in Ronda where cocaine and heroin was sold to the neighbours. Police arrested two men and one woman for alleged drug trafficking and electricity fraud The illegal business was conducted in two houses where investigators found 184 bags of heroin and cocaine – worth around

An Irish man has been arrested in Valencia for attempted homicide after allegedly attacking another man with a glass outside a bar on Christmas Day. A judge refused to bail the Irish national due to the severity of the victim’s injuries. The 39-year-old unnamed suspect is said to have committed the assault outside the St.Patrick’s

IT WAS an image that not only prompted the laughter of the television commentators narrating the 2022 Kings’ Day parade in Cadiz, but also became an instant meme on social media: the ‘broke-neck bear’.  The wardrobe malfunction suffered by the unfortunate person wearing one of the polar bear costumes at the event has lived on

THE seven reservoirs in Malaga end 2022 at 37% of their capacity, with a total of 228 cubic hectometres (Hm3), which is 17 hectometres more than last year. In a year in which rainfall has been scarce, in fact the year 2021/2022 has gone down in the books as the fifth driest hydrological year since

THE year 2023 will commence with temperatures between 1 and 3ºC above average in practically all of Spain, except in specific inland areas. In regards to Malaga province, the last few weeks of the year have elapsed with almost spring-like weather and above average temperatures for this time of year. Highs hovering between 21 and

A SERIES of domestic violence murders of women in Spain has turned December into the month with the highest number of such deaths this year, for a total of eight. The last month of the year is also the third-worst since records began, only exceeded by 2008 and 2015, when there were 10 and 11,

SPAIN has announced bigger tax breaks to woo more international TV and movie producers to the country. As of January 1, tax rebates on international TV shows shooting in Spain will be €10 million per episode. Films and TV series will also be able to take advantage of total tax relief doubling to €20 million