prosecutor asked Roca where the money came from, was when Roca appeared nervous. ‘It was 1987’, he said, ‘when all Spain used black money’.

The man who is at the centre of the Malaya corruption case hesitated in his declarations to the court in Málaga on Wednesday for the first time. Juan Antonio Roca, the ex Municipal Real Estate Assessor in Marbella Town Hall, told the prosecutor that he had never tried to hide his wealth, and that everyone could clearly see him enjoying what was his. Roca has estimated his worth to be 210 million €.

The anti-corruption prosecutor was trying to establish if Roca had money before he entered Marbella Town Hall in 1992. Roca said he had, with Marbella Inversiones, which was one of his companies, assets of about 500 million pesetas in 1989, although Roca admitted that movements of the money were not declared to the taxman. Despite that admission Roca declared ‘I am clean of all suspicion’.

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He went on to explain the money came from his 71 companies. Roca said that just before the Malaya Case broke in March 2006, he had decided to transfer all his wealth to his children. Roca said he had been putting between 3,000 and 4,000 € a year in bank accounts for each of his children since they were born.

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