The last of the May 2009 looking Back articles concerns the fate of the palm trees along the Avenidad de Salobreña in Motril, uprooted when they modernised the thoroughfare.
Tag Archive for Gürtel
Corruption Prime Concern for Majority of Spaniards
by Martin Myall •
Six out of every ten Spaniards consider that corruption is the main problem that the country has.
Political Manipulation in the Judiciary System?
by Martin Myall •
In Italy they call the Mafia, the Octopus, because its tentacles reach everywhere; in Spain the same could be said about the political class.
Gürtel Reaches Motril?
by Martin Myall •
For those of you that are no familiar with the Caso Gürtel, it is probably the biggest political corruption scandal ever to rock Spain and involves the Central Government.
The Barcenas Nightmare
by Martin Myall •
Nightmare for the Partido Popular, that is, because this said gentleman was a conservative member of the Spanish Senate and the treasurer for the party on a national level – corruption investigations have unearthed that besides being a prime suspect in the Gürtel scandal, he also stashed away 22m euros in Switzerland.
Gurtel Gnashing
by Duncan Inglis •
As mentioned last month, the connection between the national corruption scandal of Caso Gürtel and the Urbanisacion Las Alminares has been taken up by the Salobreña opposition parties as an electoral WMD against the Mayor.
Money Laundering Touches Salobreña
by Editor •
It’s not a good time for the governing party in Salobreña to hear that the judge who is investigating the biggest political corruption scandal in over a decade (Gürtel) confirmed that the case touches Salobreña.
Corruption Touchdown I
by Editor •
El Caso Gürtel is possibly the biggest corruption scandal in history of post-Franco Spain, and one of its tentacles has touched the Costa Tropical: Urbanisación Las Alminares.
Corruption Touchdown II
by Editor •
First of all, it is very important to make it very clear here that not all the villas in Urbanisación las Alminares are tainted by this scandal – many were bought by honest people through honest means.
Money Laundering
by Dave Nichols •
There’s only one place to start this month’s effort, for it’s not often our village makes the national news! I refer of course to the investigation (code-named Gürtel) into the source of funds used to purchase some of the houses built on the new(ish) urbanisation Alminares, abutting the Monte de Los Almendros.