Sean Connery, the first and legendary James Bond, is accused

Marbella courts will host this week a whole parade of celebrities. At hearings of the former mayor of Marbella Julián Muñoz, his ex-wife, Mayte Zaldívar, and the popular singer Isabel Pantoja scheduled for 13 and October 14 joins the Scottish actor Sean Connery, who has been quoted on Friday, 15th , with his wife Micheline to declare in the framework of Operation Goldfinger.

The little walk will start this Wednesday, in which Mayte Zaldívar and Julián Muñoz have a subpoena in the Court of Instruction No. 5 in Marbella, where they will transfer to the opening of the trial against them for alleged money laundering and bribery case that had come away from macrosumario Malaya. During this event will be required to provide security to "secure the financial responsibilities" with the warning that not lend "them to seize assets in an amount sufficient to secure the sum mentioned" to each of the defendants.

A day later appear Isabel Pantoja for the instructor to notify the said ruling. The judge has required a deposit of 3.68 million euros for a continuing offense of money laundering and will face trial in a prosecution request for three and half years in prison and a fine of 3.7 million euros. Julián Muñoz, the judge requires a deposit of 7.46 million and his ex-wife for 2.6 million euros. Thus, the anti-corruption prosecutor, in its indictment, the former mayor sought for seven and a half in prison and a fine of almost 7.5 million to his ex-wife, three and half years in prison. Besides Pantoja, Mayte Zaldívar Julián Muñoz and there are seven people indicted in this procedure which is a separate part of the Malaya case.

In this separate piece investigates whether Julián Muñoz, while he was mayor of Marbella, enriched and if used his ex-wife and Isabel Pantoja to launder money. Anti-corruption prosecutor maintains in his letter that both Pantoja and Zaldivar were perfectly familiar with the illicit origin of funds and goods received from Julián Muñoz. The public prosecution also argues that Muñoz knew involvement "in numerous criminal proceedings, followed by administrative corruption crimes of economic content."

Regarding Pantoja, who was arrested in May 2007 at his home and paid a deposit of 90,000 euros to avoid prison, the prosecutor referred to the transfer of funds relates to the purchase of two buildings, an apartment in the Hotel Guadalpin and the chalet My Gitana. Marbella also has a hole for Hollywood stars. In the case with respect to Sean Connery, who is in the hands of the court number 1 in Marbella, there are a dozen suspects and are investigating whether the sale of the estate Malibu, which was owned by Scottish actor, the upgrading and construction of a luxury apartment building.

Sir Sean Connery, the first and legendary James Bond, is accused, along with his wife, the procedure instructs Judge Ricardo Puyol for alleged irregularities in the operation planning to build 72 apartments allowed on the floor of the villa of the actor. This is one of the cases filed after the complaint filed by the Anticorruption Office in 2006, which were then separated in a score of proceedings for an offense against the planning and money laundering, among other crimes.

Connery's wife, Micheline Roquebrune, is also charged in the case, along with 25 others which include Julián Muñoz, a former mayor of the town, and Juan Antonio Roca, a former adviser to the Consistory urban and alleged mastermind of the Operation Malaya. The investigations, which led to registration of the two offices of the firm Díaz-Bastien & Truan Abogados (located in Marbella and Madrid) studying the possible prejudice to the municipality at 2.7 million euros for the sale and subsequent redevelopment of the estate Malibu , where the Scottish actor has his home, and sold in 1998 for $ 9 million.