British man arrested after stabbing incident in Orihuela: "31 year old British man, a resident of Torrevieja, in connection with the alleged stabbing of two others.
The police were called by the security guards at the Flamenca Beach Commercial Centre and found two men and a woman, one of them injured on his knuckles and cheek, running from a group of Moroccans, but who were indicated to be the aggressors.
The British man was carrying a large knife and the other had a cut to his neck and an ear.
Police say the British woman who was with the arrested man has a record for theft, fraud, falsification of public documents and causing injury."
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Monday, 7 March 2011
Malaga woman robbed at knifepoint in hospital
Malaga woman robbed at knifepoint in hospital: "Francy F.C. underwent an operation in the Materno Infantil Hospital in Málaga on Wednesday, and when she woke up on Thursday found a man in her hospital room who then threatened her with a knife.
Her family had gone to the hospital cafeteria to eat something and the man had used the opportunity to take her purse containing 250 € and some jewellery, some pearls and gold earrings which had been placed in the bedside cabinet.
Despite being partly sedated, Francy rang for the nurse and the man ran off. Security guards called by the nurse took ten minutes to appear.
The thief is described as tall and thin with curly hair and a beard. He was wearing a black tracksuit with orange t-shirt and carried a rucksack."
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Her family had gone to the hospital cafeteria to eat something and the man had used the opportunity to take her purse containing 250 € and some jewellery, some pearls and gold earrings which had been placed in the bedside cabinet.
Despite being partly sedated, Francy rang for the nurse and the man ran off. Security guards called by the nurse took ten minutes to appear.
The thief is described as tall and thin with curly hair and a beard. He was wearing a black tracksuit with orange t-shirt and carried a rucksack."
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Policeman dies in shoot out in Fuengirola
Policeman dies in shoot out in Fuengirola: "55 year old national policeman, named with the initials M.M.R. has died in a shoot out in Fuengirola, but it was the policeman who was trying to kidnap a banker, presumably for a ransom.
The policeman was killed in the shoot out with members of the Special Operations Group after taking the manager from the savings bank at 3pm with the plan to use the manager’s car to make the get away. However the bank manager threw away the car keys and escaped, leaving the policeman to return his home in the Urbanisation Torreblanca del Sol, where he got trapped in the shootout on Friday night.
One of the special operations police was injured in an arm and was allowed home after hospital treatment.
Police found three firearms in the house and have arrested the 53 year old wife of the policeman who now faces charges for her possible implication in the plan.
The police are also now reported to be investigating if the policeman could have committed other crimes."
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The policeman was killed in the shoot out with members of the Special Operations Group after taking the manager from the savings bank at 3pm with the plan to use the manager’s car to make the get away. However the bank manager threw away the car keys and escaped, leaving the policeman to return his home in the Urbanisation Torreblanca del Sol, where he got trapped in the shootout on Friday night.
One of the special operations police was injured in an arm and was allowed home after hospital treatment.
Police found three firearms in the house and have arrested the 53 year old wife of the policeman who now faces charges for her possible implication in the plan.
The police are also now reported to be investigating if the policeman could have committed other crimes."
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Friday, 4 March 2011
Civil Guard arrest Alicante gang who posed as police to steal from drug dealers
The gang of eight Spaniards, two Algerians and one Moroccan are described as ‘extremely violent’.
The investigation has been ongoing since March last year and has seized over the months since then 8 tons of cannabis in separate hauls in Murcia, Alicante, Andalucía and Castellón. Other items confiscated include 8 firearms, 5 bullet-proof vests, 5 detonators, frequency inhibitors, 6 top range vehicles and a semi-rigid boat.
The gang is understood to have operated in Valencia, Murcia and Andalucía, and was extremely well organised, often changing their meeting places and addresses to avoid capture.
The operation remains open and the Civil Guard believe more suspects could be taken into custody, following the initial arrests last week."
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Valencia councillor accused of blackmailing a brothel
She alleges that he went to her club and demanded 100,000 € to obtain an activities licence, doing to through two intermediaries, José Luis Bayo, ex President of the Partido Popular youth wing, Nuevas Generaciones, and Carlos Andrés, the Deputy Secretary of the Valencia Federation of Municipalities and Provinces, who described himself as Sr. Igual’s assessor.
The club’s owner is claiming the regional councillor demanded initially 42,000 € and a Rolex gold watch, but then the demand was lifted to 100,000 €.
The Madame presented a recording, made in 2008 between her daughter Noemi and Bayo, which indicates negotiations on how the payment should be made"
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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’.
When the
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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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’.
When the
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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Alicante mother who killed her daughter's rapist to remain free while pardon application is considered
Alicante mother who killed her daughter's rapist to remain free while pardon application is considered: "The provincial court in Alicante has decided to stay the imprisonment order for a woman from Benejúzar sentenced for killing the man who raped her 13 year old daughter while the government decides whether to grant her a pardon.
Antonio C.V. was serving a nine year sentence for the 1998 rape and was out on a prison pass in June 2005 when he approached the victim’s mother at a bus stop in Benejúzar and asked her how her daughter was. Mari Carmen García then went to fill a bottle with petrol, doused him with the fuel and set him alight.
She was initially sentenced to nine and a half years for the murder, but received the lesser term of five and a half years on appeal to the Supreme Court."
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Antonio C.V. was serving a nine year sentence for the 1998 rape and was out on a prison pass in June 2005 when he approached the victim’s mother at a bus stop in Benejúzar and asked her how her daughter was. Mari Carmen García then went to fill a bottle with petrol, doused him with the fuel and set him alight.
She was initially sentenced to nine and a half years for the murder, but received the lesser term of five and a half years on appeal to the Supreme Court."
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Body found in burnt out car in Málaga
Body found in burnt out car in Málaga: "Police in Málaga are trying to identify a body which was found in a burnt out car in the Campanillas district of the city on Wednesday night.
The call reporting the burning vehicle near the Carretera de la Fresneda came in shortly before 10.30 pm, and the body was found inside the car’s boot once the flames had been extinguished.
There has been no confirmation as yet on the sex of the victim who was found inside the vehicle."
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The call reporting the burning vehicle near the Carretera de la Fresneda came in shortly before 10.30 pm, and the body was found inside the car’s boot once the flames had been extinguished.
There has been no confirmation as yet on the sex of the victim who was found inside the vehicle."
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Civil Guard seize more than a ton of cannabis in Andalucía
Civil Guard seize more than a ton of cannabis in Andalucía: "on the coast of Carboneras, Almería province, in the east of the region. 779 kilos of cannabis
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British man arrested for attempted strangulation
British man arrested for attempted strangulation: "Local Police in Rojales, Alicante, has arrested a 40 year old British man who is accused of trying to strangle his partner in their home.
Europa Press reports sources close to the case saying that it happened between 4pm and 5pm on Wednesday this week in the Ciudad Quesada area of Rojales, where the police received a call about possible domestic violence.
On their arrival at the home they arrested the British man, who is accused of trying to strangle his 41 year old partner, who is also British. It is reported that there had been previous occasions of violence, but the woman had not denounced them.
The man was taken to the Guardia Civil barracks in Almoradí and will appear shortly in the Violence Against Women Court in Torrevieja."
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Europa Press reports sources close to the case saying that it happened between 4pm and 5pm on Wednesday this week in the Ciudad Quesada area of Rojales, where the police received a call about possible domestic violence.
On their arrival at the home they arrested the British man, who is accused of trying to strangle his 41 year old partner, who is also British. It is reported that there had been previous occasions of violence, but the woman had not denounced them.
The man was taken to the Guardia Civil barracks in Almoradí and will appear shortly in the Violence Against Women Court in Torrevieja."
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DISGRACED former world boxing champ Scott Harrison's hopes of a prison transfer to Scotland from his hellhole Spanish nick have been KO'd
DISGRACED former world boxing champ Scott Harrison's hopes of a prison transfer to Scotland from his hellhole Spanish nick have been KO'd by the threat of standing trial on fresh assault charges.
Harrison, 33, was due to be flown home from grim Botafuegos jail to Glasgow's Barlinnie prison later this month to serve the rest of his 30-month sentence for battering a cop and a man in street attack.
But last night it emerged he will have to remain in Spain as he faces trial over a SECOND violent brawl in the Costa del Sol.
It's understood the dad-of-three is facing accusations he and two pals attacked three men with bottles and glasses in a brothel in Alhaurin el Grande.
And Harrison - whose long-awaited jail move was previously held up for months by Interpol - could face up to eight months more in jail if convicted.
A source said: "No one quite understands how the authorities gave Harrison the go-ahead to return to Scotland when this was hanging over him.
"Scott's obviously taken it pretty badly. He feels as if he's in complete limbo at the moment.
"Scott had been given a return date for March 20 and was getting ready to go to a jail in Madrid for a few days before getting a flight to Glasgow. Now he's been told the move is off and he's staying put until further notice.
"His lawyer is trying to push for a quick trial over the brothel incident so he can try to revive the move to Scotland if cleared.
"But the worry now for Scott must be that he's going to end up getting another conviction and more prison time."
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Wednesday, 2 March 2011
Latin Kings ,King Wolverine, Vara Velastegui is regarded as the "king of kings" among Spain-based gangs
The three most senior leaders of a Spanish gang that grew out of a violent Hispanic organisation have been jailed by a court in Madrid.
The gang's Ecuadorean boss, Eric Javier Vara Velastegui, is already in prison but prosecutors said he continued to run the gang while under lock and key.
He was sentenced to four more years, with key lieutenants sentenced to two years and three-and-a-half years.
The Latin Kings grew in 1940s Chicago and later spread through the US.
According to the judgement the organisation was based fundamentally on violence, both towards its own members and towards rival gangs, Spain's Efe news agency reports.
Most members of the Latin Kings are thought to be migrants from Latin America.
It retains its violent reputation even though some efforts have been made to integrate the gang into local culture, especially in Catalonia, where it is not banned.
Known by the codename King Wolverine, Vara Velastegui is regarded as the "king of kings" among Spain-based gangs, according the the country's El Pais newspaper.
Jose Fabricio Icaza, known as The Prince, was given a three-and-a-half-year term, while Maria Torres - The Godmother - was sentenced to two years.
As well as jailing the three gang leaders, the Madrid court ordered the
to be disbanded, in line with a previous ruling from 2007. Prosecutors said that judgement was flouted by Vara Velastegui.
He is already behind bars serving a sentence for murder but is thought to have retained control of the Latin Kings criminal network while serving his time.
The sentences end a long legal battle by the gang members, who had appealed against earlier judgements ordering the dissolution of the group.
They claimed that testimony given anonymously in court during a previous trial had infringed their rights by preventing them from knowing the identity of their accusers.
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The gang's Ecuadorean boss, Eric Javier Vara Velastegui, is already in prison but prosecutors said he continued to run the gang while under lock and key.
He was sentenced to four more years, with key lieutenants sentenced to two years and three-and-a-half years.
The Latin Kings grew in 1940s Chicago and later spread through the US.
According to the judgement the organisation was based fundamentally on violence, both towards its own members and towards rival gangs, Spain's Efe news agency reports.
Most members of the Latin Kings are thought to be migrants from Latin America.
It retains its violent reputation even though some efforts have been made to integrate the gang into local culture, especially in Catalonia, where it is not banned.
Known by the codename King Wolverine, Vara Velastegui is regarded as the "king of kings" among Spain-based gangs, according the the country's El Pais newspaper.
Jose Fabricio Icaza, known as The Prince, was given a three-and-a-half-year term, while Maria Torres - The Godmother - was sentenced to two years.
As well as jailing the three gang leaders, the Madrid court ordered the
to be disbanded, in line with a previous ruling from 2007. Prosecutors said that judgement was flouted by Vara Velastegui.
He is already behind bars serving a sentence for murder but is thought to have retained control of the Latin Kings criminal network while serving his time.
The sentences end a long legal battle by the gang members, who had appealed against earlier judgements ordering the dissolution of the group.
They claimed that testimony given anonymously in court during a previous trial had infringed their rights by preventing them from knowing the identity of their accusers.
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Tuesday, 1 March 2011
National Police officer arrested for smuggling migrants into Cádiz
National Police officer arrested for smuggling migrants into Cádiz: "There have been a number of arrests over recent days in connection with a network which brought Moroccan migrants from Ceuta over the Strait of Gibraltar onto the coast of Cádiz province.
The first arrests were on Saturday night, including a National Police officer, who is from Chiclana and was assigned to Immigration and Border Control in Ceuta. He and another man arrested in Chiclana are believed to have led the organisation.
Another three people were taken into custody late that night after the National Police intercepted a van carrying seven irregular immigrants which had boarded the last boat to Algeciras , bypassing police controls."
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The first arrests were on Saturday night, including a National Police officer, who is from Chiclana and was assigned to Immigration and Border Control in Ceuta. He and another man arrested in Chiclana are believed to have led the organisation.
Another three people were taken into custody late that night after the National Police intercepted a van carrying seven irregular immigrants which had boarded the last boat to Algeciras , bypassing police controls."
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Funds recovered in Andorra connected to Llíber illegal properties case
Funds recovered in Andorra 
connected to Llíber illegal properties case: "The Civil Guard have recovered 2.4 million € from an account in Andorra which officers say is money which had been diverted there by a real estate corruption network in Llíber, in inland Alicante province.It’s understood to be part of the money which was paid over by developers in return for Town Hall licences to build properties illegally on rustic land. It’s estimated that some 300 properties received permission to be built in this way.
The case has seen 18 people taken into custody since the first arrests took place in December 2008, including Llíber’s former Partido Popular Mayor, José Mas. The town’s ex municipal surveyor is another of the suspects; ABC newspaper reports that he and his wife are the holders of the Andorra account.
The total amount defrauded is believed to be as much as 90 million €."
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Maltese notary arrested in Spain
Maltese notary arrested in Spain: "Notary Pierre Falzon had been arrested in Marbella, Spain, on the strength of a European Arrest Warrant.
The Secretariat for Small Businesses said the warrant was requested by the Malta 
police and Dr Falzon was arrested on Saturday.
His wife insisted with timesofmalta.com that her husband is abroad because he is ill and his arrest was a consequence of him having been unable to attend a court sitting."
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The Secretariat for Small Businesses said the warrant was requested by the Malta police and Dr Falzon was arrested on Saturday.His wife insisted with timesofmalta.com that her husband is abroad because he is ill and his arrest was a consequence of him having been unable to attend a court sitting."
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Monday, 28 February 2011
Santiago del Valle's wife says on live TV that he killed Marí Luz Cortés
Santiago del Valle's wife says on live TV that he killed Marí Luz Cortés: "Isabel García, the wife of Santiago del Valle, who is currently in court charged with the murder of the Huelva five year old, Marí Luz Cortés, has said on live television that her husband killed the child.
Previously the accused’s wife had been considered as being capable of saying any story to defend her husband, but speaking to Ana Rosa Quintana on her Telecinco programme on Friday morning, she said that her husband killed the child by accident. She said the child fell at hit her head by accident, and once unconscious, her husband and sister in law, believing the child to be dead, put her in a shopping trolley and took her to the river in the car. They threw her in not knowing she was still alive. The story matches what the forensic scientists have already said during the court hearing.
Asked why they did not take the child to hospital, she replied that her sister in law was scared.
In tears she said, ‘I don’t want my husband to hate me’. She expressed regret for the suffering caused to Mari Luz’s family and said that she was very sorry."
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Previously the accused’s wife had been considered as being capable of saying any story to defend her husband, but speaking to Ana Rosa Quintana on her Telecinco programme on Friday morning, she said that her husband killed the child by accident. She said the child fell at hit her head by accident, and once unconscious, her husband and sister in law, believing the child to be dead, put her in a shopping trolley and took her to the river in the car. They threw her in not knowing she was still alive. The story matches what the forensic scientists have already said during the court hearing.
Asked why they did not take the child to hospital, she replied that her sister in law was scared.
In tears she said, ‘I don’t want my husband to hate me’. She expressed regret for the suffering caused to Mari Luz’s family and said that she was very sorry."
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Four AXA Directors arrested in Spain on fraud charges
Four AXA Directors arrested in Spain on fraud charges: "The Guardia Civil has arrested 13 people accused of document falsification as part of a 3.6 million € fraud. Four of those arrested are directors of the AXA insurance company, three in Sant Feliu de Llobregat and another in Madrid.
Reports indicate that they had created companies using family names to carry out the fraud. One of those arrested is Francesc Pardo, the previous director of the logistic centre in Sant Feliu de Llobregat who allegedly authorised the payment of false facturas which were then sent to AXA, according to Cadena Ser.
It was the company itself which denounced the case to the Civil Guard last October when serious accounting irregularities came to light in an internal audit."
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Reports indicate that they had created companies using family names to carry out the fraud. One of those arrested is Francesc Pardo, the previous director of the logistic centre in Sant Feliu de Llobregat who allegedly authorised the payment of false facturas which were then sent to AXA, according to Cadena Ser.
It was the company itself which denounced the case to the Civil Guard last October when serious accounting irregularities came to light in an internal audit."
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German man shot dead at traffic lights in L'Álfás del Pi
German man shot dead 
at traffic lights in L'Álfás del Pi: "The body of a man, shot in the head, was found in a black Danish plated Mercedes at a traffic lights on the N-332 road in l’Alfás del Pi, direction Benidorm on Friday.The Guardia Civil found the car at the El Albir traffic lights after receiving a report at 7pm. The car was found with the sun roof lowered, and the Guardia found the gun cartridges nearby.
Emergency workers from SAMU could only confirm the death on their arrival at the scene.
A statement from the Guardia Civil confirmed the body showed signs of violence and had been shot. They said victim was a 45 year old German man who worked locally in a second hand car dealership in El Albir."
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Grupo Mirador owners face seven years in prison
Grupo Mirador owners face seven years in prison: "The prosecutor is requesting a seven year prison sentence and 12,000 € for the owners of the Mirador real estate group which is accused of accepting and not returning deposits for properties which were never built. A private prosecution, representing 12 people who lost their deposits, is demanding eight years in prison.
An instruction judge in Málaga has ordered that the brothers Enrique and Leopoldo Faura, the unique administrator and the proxy for the Mirador group, to be processed in court on a charge of continued illegal enrichment.
Those affected paid between 29,960 € and 43,000 € in the years 2004 and 2005 for flats in a building which was projected to be built in Vélez-Málaga. 
A total amount of 400,970 € was paid.
However the company never built the properties or even obtained a construction licence which it first applied for in March 2007."
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An instruction judge in Málaga has ordered that the brothers Enrique and Leopoldo Faura, the unique administrator and the proxy for the Mirador group, to be processed in court on a charge of continued illegal enrichment.
Those affected paid between 29,960 € and 43,000 € in the years 2004 and 2005 for flats in a building which was projected to be built in Vélez-Málaga. A total amount of 400,970 € was paid.However the company never built the properties or even obtained a construction licence which it first applied for in March 2007."
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Promoter accused of Estepona real estate fraud says he returned the money he was paid
Promoter accused of Estepona real estate fraud says he returned the money he was paid: "The British investors affected have filed a suit against the promoter and 3 British real estate agents
The properties were sold off-plan but were never built, and Miranda says he was paid 12 million € by Ocean View to build the development on their behalf, but returned the funds when it became evident that ‘administrative problems’ made the project unviable.
Miranda maintains that he never had any direct contact with the purchasers or received any money from them.
The case is under instruction at Court No. 16 in Madrid, where the Marbella law firm, Lawbird, has filed a suit on behalf of the investors affected by the Estepona development and two others in Morocco and the Dominican Republic.
El País indicates that Ocean View is now under liquidation, and those affected want the company’s three directors, David Charles Stewart, Robert John Parkes and Colin Thomas, to answer charges in court."
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Ricardo Miranda, the Spanish promoter who has been taken to court by British investors over an alleged real estate fraud in Estepona, says he returned all the money he received for the project to the British company involved, Ocean View Properties.
The properties were sold off-plan but were never built, and Miranda says he was paid 12 million € by Ocean View to build the development on their behalf, but returned the funds when it became evident that ‘administrative problems’ made the project unviable.
Miranda maintains that he never had any direct contact with the purchasers or received any money from them.
The case is under instruction at Court No. 16 in Madrid, where the Marbella law firm, Lawbird, has filed a suit on behalf of the investors affected by the Estepona development and two others in Morocco and the Dominican Republic.
El País indicates that Ocean View is now under liquidation, and those affected want the company’s three directors, David Charles Stewart, Robert John Parkes and Colin Thomas, to answer charges in court."
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