Euro Weekly News | Marbella’s Malaya corruption €810m super-trial underway | Costa del Sol | News | The Largest English Language Newspapers in Spain: "IN the first day of Spain’s biggest ever corruption trial being held in Malaga, lawyers asked for phone tapping evidence to be scrapped for infringing their clients’ rights in a bid to have the whole case cancelled. The list of 95 people accused in the case that centers on planning corruption in Marbella Town Hall, features many high profile people including two former mayors and 15 councillors.
Àt the heart of the case are numerous building licenses handed out illegally by the town hall, on rural land, in exchange for money.
Charges range from money laundering to influence peddling.
In the case of Juan Antonio Roca, the alleged mastermind of the whole operation, his lawyer asked that the trial be completely annulled.
Roca is charged with a string of planning offences, influence peddling, embezzlement, coercion, fraud and money laundering for which the prosecution is seeking 30 years in prison and fines of €810m.
One lawyer, representing the Sanchez Zubizarreta-Soriano Pastor law firm, claims that 5,000 pages of the summary are missing and that this meant that the legal rights of the accused were not guaranteed."
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