In the resort of Spain seized property and assets of 2.4

Posted on Dec 22, 2011

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Assets valued at about 2.4 billion euros seized from a large-scale police operation against corruption in the government of Spanish resort of Marbella in the autonomous region of Andalusia (south), ITAR-TASS referring to representatives of local law enforcement.

In the case of detained more than 20 people. Among them -
senior officials, including a mayor of Marbella, Marisol Yague, Secretary of the City Council, an adviser to the planning and improvement of the city.

Spanish law enforcement representatives also noted that this operation was carried out, including through operational-investigation records sharing
investigation of the local judiciary with the Russian General
Prosecutors Office and the Department of Economic Security of the Interior Ministry.

So, one of the assistants Yague was arrested by police at once
on arrival to Spain from Russia. All the detainees are accused “of financial fraud, to pressure, artificially high prices, embezzlement of public funds,” etc.

Among the confiscated property of corrupt – jewelry, real estate, luxury cars, antique weapons and even more than one hundred elite thoroughbred horses.