Santa Pola CF 2 – 1 UD Horadada Three first half goals, the opening couple to the home side, settled an entertaining match at the Manolo Macia, earning Santa Pola only their second win of the season. The Marineros were on the score sheet early ...
Santa Pola CF 2 – 1 UD Horadada Three first half goals, the opening couple to the home side, settled an entertaining match at the Manolo Macia, earning Santa Pola only their second win of the season. The Marineros were on the score sheet early ...
Representatives of several associations got together last week in the Rocajuna offices of lawyers ArocaSequier when the Solidarity Fiesta Calendar 2015 was presented. Andy Ormiston explained that this is the ninth charity calendar which various chari...
Following a story first reported in the Leader two months ago, Operation 'Masina', has resulted in the arrest of three people with charges made to a further twelve as agents from the Guardia Civil broke up a locally based organisation that allegedly marketed used vehicles with tampered odometers.
In the police operation speedometers were found to have been ‘clocked' on about 200 cars, some of which had seen their mileages reduced by 246,000 kilometres prior to their sale with forged documents. Of the 200 vehicles the Guardia estimated that 122 of the buyers since 2011 were retired expatriates.
The case dates back to last January, when the Civil Guard first detected a possible fraud involving the purchase of one such a vehicle in Torrevieja.
After initial investigations it was found that vehicles were being delivered, along with their forged vehicle servicing booklets showing a false maintenance history, usually indicating that servicing had been carried out at much lower mileages and shorter intervals. A police spokesman said that the failure to meet the maintenance intervals recommended by the manufacturer would have meant that there was a "major risk" of vehicle failure which could have been extremely "dangerous2 to anyone in the vehicle at the time.
Searches were subsequently carried out in six locations, including two homes in Torrevieja and Quesada, and two industrial buildings in Almoradi which were fully equipped to repair and paint the vehicles, with their mechanics working "behind closed doors.”
During the searches numerous documents were also found which showed the actual mileages of the vehicles, as well as numerous Odometers that had been removed from their vehicles, on which were recorded substantially lower mileages. Officers impounded a total of 151 vehicles on which the odometers had been manipulated.
After the vehicles were first purchased by the group they were moved to the warehouses in Almoradi where the mileages were changed before many of them received a new coat of paint, changing the original color in order to “make them more appealing in an attempt to disguise their actual condition." The vehicles were then leased to rental companies or sold to individuals, many of them locally based on the Orihuela Costa or in Torrevieja.
After analyzing the information accumulated from seized reports the gang was found to have manipulated the odometers on 198 vehicles, ‘clocking' them back by an average of more than 140,000 kilometers, and in several cases well over 200,000.
Among those arrested are a Romanian father and son identified as IC and CC, 58 and 36 years of age respectively, and a man of Spanish nationality who served as a the manager on the used car lot premises. He was identified as CMGR aged 50.
The operation is still ongoing and the used car lot at the centre of the investigation still remains closed and sealed off by the Guardia Civil.
Filed under: http://www.theleader.info/article/44827/Los Montesinos author Andrew Atkinson has penned a book – The Full ‘Monty' - written from experiences by him and his wife Helen in their three year search looking for a Casa in Spain.
Andrew is looking for a publisher or business to help him get the story into print: "Los Montesinos - The Full 'Monty' - tells of our 'eye-opening' visits to Montesinos when seeing workers sat drinking wine - some asleep - during our Casa build. "To that of needing permission to do almost anything to our property...even tiling the garden!," said Andrew.
Andrew and Helen searched for a property spanning Almoradi, Alicante , Benidorm, Benijofar, Cabo Roig, Cabo de Palos, Cartagena, Denia, Elche, Guardamar, Lo Pagan, Los Alcazares, La Mata, La Zenia. Murcia, Polop, San Miguel, Santiago de la Ribera, Torrevieja, Torremendo, Mojocar - leading to their arrival in Los Montesinos on the Costa Blanca south.
"It's been a great experience over the last decade and hopefully the book will give an insight to anyone contemplating living in Spain, either permanently, or as a non-resident," said Andrew.
Interested publishers and businesses can contact Andrew on 07702340744 or via email on: lancashiremedia@talktalk.net LOS MONTESINOS - The Full 'Monty' author Andrew Atkinson and wife
Filed under: http://www.theleader.info/article/44442/The pressure group ‘Stop Accidentes' said on Monday that a man who had been sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in prison for killing a baby in Almoradi, in 2007, following a traffic accident, has fled the country to avoid imprisonment. The incide...
A fire forced the evacuation of three houses on Sunday in the hamlet of El Mudamiento close to Almoradi. The source was reported as being the back yard of one of the properties in which a large amount of firewood was piled. Fortunately, according t...
A todo tren 2024 ” Tapas, Dulces y Tardeo”
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19th April 2024
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