ISSUE NO. 1681
21 - 27 September 2017
Wife held in fraud raid THE wife of a former Ukrainian government minister has been held in Marbella. It comes as the Guardia Civil probe an alleged multi-million Euro money-laundering scheme in which her husband, Serhiy Tulub, allegedly a personal friend of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, is also implicated.
Wild, wild Westbrook SHE is rumoured to have suffered a miscarSINGLE? riage. Daniella And forWestbrook. mer Eastenders star and Costa del Sol resident Daniella Westbrook, 43, has now taken to Twitter to spark rumours that she has split from fiancé Alan Thomason, 32. She wrote: “Hurting from my loss. The hotel wasn’t the only thing he destroyed that day. I never knew him at all! Walking away.” The emotional message comes in the wake of recent claims the couple trashed a Benidorm hotel room.
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By Matt Ford Marbella Council has insisted that disgraced former councillor Carlos Fernandez is extradited to Spain. A city hall official said that Fernandez “cannot be allowed to flaunt the rules of law in such a basic fashion,” adding that it is “an obligation of our country to get this person here to explain what happened.” The demand comes after t h e 4 9 - y e a r- o l d w a s h e l d in Rivadavia, San Juan Province, Argentina, after an 11-year manhunt. He went on the run in June 2006 after Spanish police swooped on his home when he became implicated in the still-ongoing ‘Malaya’ municipal corruption scandal. A day later his lawyer issued a letter stating that he was walking the Way of Saint James in Galicia and would cooperate fully, but he has not been seen since. The Malaya investigation has seen more than 100 people jailed includ-
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Council demands extradition
Got him! Photo credit Policia Federal de Argentina
FOUND: Carlos Fernandez (centre) with two police officers in Argentina. ing ex-mayor of Marbella, Julian Muñoz, his ex-wife Mayte Zaldivar and his exgirlfriend, the singer Isabel Pantoja. A rg e n t i n i a n i n v e s t i g a tors reportedly staked out his home for a week before the raid, and said in a statement that he had und e rg o n e “ s u rg i c a l o p e r a tions to change his appearance.”
They had been working alongside Spanish detectives and seized a number of items, including paper documents, three tablets, a computer and a pen drive during the operation. Fernandez was also sentenced to two years behind bars for embezzlement in 2005 and his extradition appears likely after authorities in Malaga yesterday
( We d n e s d a y ) a n n o u n c e d that they will begin the process immediately.