March 2024

Police dismantle giant sports betting fraud that fixed results and ‘delayed’ live satellite tv pictures to fool bookmakers in Spain

75 members of a sports betting syndicate that duped bookmakers have been arrested by the Policia Nacional and the Tax Agency in association with Europol and Interpol. The first phase of the police operation saw 22 people detained in the Madrid, Guadalajara, and Zaragoza areas, who made up to €2 million from laying down bets. […]

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Four-year-old dies in Spain’s Mallorca after becoming trapped in tumble dryer

A FOUR-year-old boy has been found dead in his home in Mallorca after apparently climbing into a tumble dryer in the family home and becoming trapped. The child is thought to have got into the domestic appliance and closed the door, leaving him unable to escape and also with a limited air supply. The parents,

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Two girls, 13 and 15, raped after pimps offered them €20 each for sex at Murcia area flat in Spain

TWO women have been arrested in Murcia City for pimping out two underage girls they’d just met. Two men have also been detained by the Policia Nacional and Guardia Civil and have been charged with sexual assault. The girls, 13 and 15, met the women in the San Andres district of Murcia who persuaded them

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Spain’s clothing giant Inditex to make gradual return to Ukraine, after two-year closure caused by Russian invasion

SPANISH clothing giant Inditex, which is the parent group of brands such as Zara and Bershka, is to make its return to Ukraine after a two-year closure prompted by the Russian invasion.  Sources from the company, which was founded by billionaire Galician businessman Amancio Ortega, told news agency Europa Press that the process of reopening

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Partido Popular spokesperson denies any involvement in Covid mask scandal engulfing Spanish politics, despite being mentioned by the two main suspects in wiretaps

PHONE taps carried out by the Spanish Guardia Civil while investigating an alleged corruption scandal involving the sale of face masks during the worst months of the Covid-19 pandemic contain mentions of the parliamentary spokesperson for the conservative Partido Popular, Miguel Tellado. A report from the police that has been leaked to the Spanish press

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Santander Bank computer error in Spain causes ‘double-charging’ of customers who are reassured that their balances have not been altered

A COMPUTER glitch has been blamed for causing Banco Santander customers in Spain to be double charged for transactions on Friday morning. The bank confirmed that it suffered ‘an incident’ in its computer network but no figure has been over the number of clients hit by the error. Santander has denied it is a cyberattack

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Spain’s top court opens ‘terrorism probe’ into exiled Catalan ex-president Carles Puigdemont

SPAIN’S Supreme Court has started a terrorism investigation into former Catalunya President Carles Puigdemont over protests linked to the region’s failed and illegally-organised 2017 independence referendum. Although Puigdemont fled Spain in 2017 after the vote, the court states that there are several indications that he held ‘the absolute leadership’ and was the intellectual author behind

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