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Rock solid JUNTA DE ANDALUCIA leader Susana Diaz will next week meet Gibraltar’s Chief Minister Fabian Picardo. The meeting comes amid tensions over Brexit, and will attempt to “provide solutions and assurances amid the uncertainties,” a government of Gibraltar official said. Talks will reportedly focus on the economy of the Campo de Gibraltar comarca (county), the only territory in the world with a continental UK border.
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Double-dealer Husband of dead British mum in new con claim By Matt Ford The husband of a British mother-of-two whose body was found on a Costa del Sol beach was allegedly exporting cannabis-laced e-cigarettes from Spain. Essex-born Paul Muldoon, 33, was initially held over an alleged €900,000 boiler room fraud, which reportedly involved convincing pensioners to invest in a shady rare metals scheme. But when investigators swooped on his rented Marbella office they unearthed over 400 e-cigarette vaporisers containing high levels of cannabis oil. They were imported illegally from California and sold onto smoking clubs in the UK, according to detectives. A body which washed up on a Marbella beach on Sunday is
believed to be that of Mr Muldoon’s wife Rebecca, 35, who vanished on January 2. He was first taken into custody on New Year’s Day after neighbours reported shouting and screaming coming from the couple’s penthouse apartment in the Vigil de Quiñones neighbourhood. But he was freed after his wife failed to attend a hearing, with investigators confirming that he was in jail when she went missing. The court was unaware that Mr Muldoon was on the UK’s most wanted list, and he had been on the run since last April. He later turned himself in after being advised that a European Arrest Warrant had been issued in his name and now faces extradition. Turn to page 2
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SMOKED OUT: The e-cigarettes seized during police raids and (inset) Paul and Rebecca Muldoon.
Fraud scam TWO men have been held in Marbella on suspicion of posing as gas company employees. The pair, aged 24 and 37, targeted elderly people, gaining access to their homes and carrying out ‘essential maintenance,’ before convincing them to sign fake contracts and pay hundreds of Euros, police said in a statement.