Juan Antonio Roca told the press on his release that he is considering returning to his job in Marbella Town Hall

Juan Antonio Roca walked free from prison in Granada – two years since his arrest on charges of urban corruption, fraud, money laundering, embezzlement, the misappropriation of public funds, falsifying official documents and the illegal possession of firearms.Judge Óscar Pérez – who granted bail for the former chief of urban planning at Marbella town hall in late March – announced a bank transfer from Roca’s lawyers during a hearing at court number 5 in the Costa del Sol town.
Under the bail conditions, Roca has to attend court everyday and not go within 500 metres of an airport. This is over continuing police fears the former chaffeur, who is claimed to have amassed a 200-million-euro fortune during his time at the council, will flee Spain.Investigators believe he has hidden bank accounts in tax havens around the globe.

Residents of Marbella gathered in the town today to protest at the fact that the man at the centre of the Malaya corruption case, the ex municipal real estate assessor, Juan Antonio Roca, has been released from jail on 1 million € bail after two years on remand. Groups of locals and left-wing politicians from I.U. collected outside one of the properties owned by Roca in San Pedro Alcántara.Meanwhile the Marbella Town Hall issued a statement saying that they would continue to challenge the release in the courts. Town Hall spokesman, Félix Romero, said that their appeal would stay in place and they were waiting to hear the opinions of both the provincial and national courts on the matter, given the flight risk which Juan Antonio Roca represents.
For his part Juan Antonio Roca told the press on his release that the charges against him had been greatly exaggerated, to the extent that they should be in the Guinness Book of Records.
Under the bail conditions he has to sign in the court or with the police every day, and cannot go closer than 500m to any airfield.
20 minutos has reported meanwhile that after signing at the court today Roca said he is considering returning to his job in Marbella Town Hall. He described it as a possibility and a right he has, and also reminded the press that he still has not been sentenced for anything. He also said that he would, for now, remain living in Marbella, although revealed that he wanted to visit Murcia and Madrid next week.
"It is a possiblity (that he returns to his job) given that it is a right I have"
Meanwhile as one comes out, another goes back in. The ex Mayor of Marbella, Javier Muñoz, also charged in the Malaya corruption case in the town, returned to the Alhaurin Prison at 7,30am on Tuesday morning after enjoying his first three day pass. He spent the time with family and friends inside the villa ‘Mi Gitana’ with his partner, diva Isabel Pantoja, in the La Pera urbanisation in Puerto Banús. He arrived back at the jail in her four-wheel drive vehicle driven by her personal chauffer.Muñoz is also serving time for three separate sentences on town planning offences.