'Fat Freddie' Thompson in Alicante and his lieutenant who shot Foley is in Malaga

'Fat Freddie' Thompson and two of his key associates have fled to Spain in fear of their lives.The trio, including the gangland figure reported to have shot Martin 'Viper' Foley, left the country at the weekend.Thompson is thought to be in Alicante and his lieutenant who shot Foley is in Malaga.Early Saturday, the home of another associate was ripped apart in a grenade attack.The 2.20am explosion came horrifically close to claiming the lives of the children of the household. They had been watching television until 2am.The grenade was rolled into...

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Spanish police say they have arrested six people on suspicion of smuggling heroin

Spanish police say they have arrested six people on suspicion of smuggling heroin from Turkey and distributing it just outside Madrid.Police say investigators have seized 28 kilograms (62 pounds) of heroin, five rifles, two guns, ammunition, a large amount of jewels and more than €185,000 (US$290,000) in cash during raids.The suspects, which included one Turkish national, allegedly used a distribution point in Canada Real Galiana de Valdemingomez, a shantytown to the southeast of Madrid.Police said Tuesday the two suspects were carrying a large...

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Fat’ Freddie Thompson is lying low in Salou in Northern Spain

Fat’ Freddie Thompson is lying low in Salou in Northern Spain after he fled Dublin with a €40,000 hit-bounty on his head.Meanwhile, Thompson’s arch enemy INLA gangster Declan ‘Whacker’ Duffy has also fled Ireland in a last-minute bid to avoid assassination. Following a series of vicious stabbings shootings between the rival gangs Gardai fear - open warfare on the streets of Ireland’s capital city Dublin.With both fractions locked into a deadly feud...

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Baltasar Garzón, travelled to Málaga those arrested in‘operación Troika’ face charges of illegal association, money laundering,

Baltasar Garzón, travelled to Málaga where he ordered one of the people arrested in the city, Spanish woman Leocadia Martín, to jail without bail on money laundering and other charges, and extended the detention time of Svetlana Kousmina, a Russian woman, wife to one of the men arrested in Marbella as part of the case. In Málaga provinces searches were carried out in Marbella, Estepona, Málaga City, Torrox and Nerja with another one of the heads, Alexander Malyshev being arrested at his home in Frigiliana.he has released four of those arrested...

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Francis Smith who lives in Alhaurin, Malaga,not guilty verdict

The case against a man accused of conspiring to distribute a staggering £2.6 million worth of cannabis has been dropped – because the evidence has been destroyed.Francis Smith had denied conspiring with van driver Roy Selby and others to distribute the 1.2 tonnes of cannabis in February 2006 near Rugby.Selby, now 43, from Stockton, was jailed for two-and-a-half years in August that year after he admitted possessing the cannabis with intent to supply it.It was alleged that evidence was found linking Smith (56) who lives in Alhaurin, Malaga, on Spain's...

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Brink's-Mat bullion Detectives last week found six suitcases crammed with gold inside a London deposit box.

Police have begun a search of over 7,000 safety deposit boxes in what is believed to be a massive crackdown on British gangsters.Around 300 officers are involved in what is being described as a hunt for cash, guns, drugs and child pornography. They believe they could find contents worth tens of millions of pounds.Cops said the raids on three London depots, thought to belong to the Safe Deposit Centres Ltd company, would target the “top tier” of Britain’s...

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Sir Mark Thatcher, son of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, branded a "dirty player"

"Spain is heavily mentioned by Simon Mann. It was where the plot started and that country has very good intelligence service," he said, adding that a special relationship still existed between the west African nation and its former colonial rulers. "And yet not a hint was given from Spain and we wonder why. Sir Mark Thatcher, son of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, branded a "dirty player" who hoped to reap huge benefits from the plot and claimed that Ely Calil, the London-based businessman who allegedly financed the project, was planning...

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Man believed responsible for twelve armed robberies over the last two years that netted around a quarter of a million euros, was arrested in Huelva

Man believed responsible for twelve armed robberies over the last two years that netted around a quarter of a million euros, was arrested in Huelva last Friday. The 67 year old recommenced his activities in April 2006 after escaping from Villabona jail in Asturias, where he was serving time for 11 similar offences. After a lengthy investigation, the suspect was tracked down to a car dealership on the La Paz industrial estate where he had just bought a car using a false identity. A search of the man's home in El Portil (Huelva) yielded a wealth...

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ANTI-Russian mafia operation was carried out simultaneously in several places in Spain

ANTI-Russian mafia operation was carried out simultaneously in several places in Spain, including Marbella, Nerja, Malaga, Torrox, Palma de Majorca, Javea, El Campello, Valencia and Madrid.Spanish authorities said Friday they had broken up a massive Russian criminal network operating in the south of the country, arresting 18 people.The Tambovskaya-Malyshevskay gang is the "largest criminal organisation of Russian origin in the world" and has been...

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Monzer Al Kassar Marbella property siezed and all funds contained in three separate bank accounts

Indictment seeks the forfeiture of an estate located in Marbella, Spain, and all funds contained in three separate bank accounts. The forfeitures represent the alleged proceeds obtained from the charged offenses.Michael J. Garcia, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michele M. Leonhart, the Acting Administrator of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), announced that international arms dealer Monzer...

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Two Spanish tourists who have been detained on charges of making homosexual advances at two taxi drivers in Gambia

Two Spanish tourists who have been detained on charges of making homosexual advances at two taxi drivers in Gambia face up to 14 years in prison for violating the principles of Islam, the gay organisation FAGC said Tuesday in Barcelona.The Spaniards were being held at a police station in the coastal resort of Kotu. They were arrested Friday after the taxi drivers reported them to police.Gambian President Yahya Gammeh has threatened to "cut off the head" of any homosexual caught in the touristic West African country.The Spaniards were receiving...

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Spanish police have arrested 16 people suspected of being part of a gang that stole hundreds of tons copper for sale in Spain

Spanish police have arrested 16 people, most of them Romanians, suspected of being part of a gang that stole hundreds of tons copper for sale in Spain and abroad, the interior ministry has said.It said the theft of copper rolls from a solar park in the southern region of Albacete led police to a warehouse where the gang had hidden around 1.6 tonnes of copper as well as machines for making fake identity cards.The ministry said in March that police had detained 77 Romanians suspected of being part of a gang that stole copper to ship to China and...

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Spanish resident convicted of drug smuggling

Two Nigerians have been convicted and sentenced to 21 years’ imprisonment in hard labour by an Accra Regional Tribunal presided over by Justice Frank Manu for possessing narcotic drugs.Mondistus Nidimakor had 11years jail term for each count of attempting to export and possessing 73 pellets of cocaine while Gabriel Alaoma received 10 years for each count of importing and possessing 4475.388g of heroine, a narcotic drug.However, the sentences are to run concurrently. The convicts had initially pleaded not guilty to the charges but later changed...

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