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FLUORESCENT kites accentuate its bright blue skies, Caribbean-style sweeping white sandy beaches, which seem wow factor, while the stiff beaches bring the million miles away from its easterly Costa a could easily pass for Chefchaouen hopefully not sweep you Atlantic breezes will Sol neighbour. del aouira. or EssWelcome to Tarifa, the off your feet. Handbags and hippy wind and kite surfers’ It’s no surprise that those-in-the-know scarves hang in the paradise that is unique from doorways around Spain flock pretty much Spain) for in Andalucia (and the summer seasonto the hotspot as soon as trendy barsof fashion boutiques while the its hip, international and quality restaurants begins. vibe and deep layers But there’s more to this will enancient Moorish town gage you for hours. The star of the Costaof history. than surfing and Having everything a town could want Light - that stretches de la Luz - or Coast of is truly a treat. beaches and its old quarter with glorious beaches, it’s no wonder paired technically all the wayfrom here to Cadiz (and Entering via a medieval Tarifa through Huelva to Porarchway, its cobbled has been constantly fought over. tugal), Tarifa is unrivalled for its kilometres of streets and whitewashed buildings are over- Romans first settled near the town (you can laid with a tangible north-African vibe that Continues on
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HE’S been keeping a low profile since he ended his eight-year term as US President, but keep your eyes peeled for Barack Obama this weekend. According to sources close to the Olive Press, the 56-year-old could be taking a well-earned break in Mallorca starting this Saturday. The 44th president of the United States is already in Spain to attend an economic conference in Madrid, before jetting off to Porto to speak at a climate change summit on Friday. “He’s in Madrid on Friday morning, then flies to Portugal, before returning to Madrid,” said
the high-level political source. “He then heads to Mallorca, after that, but I can’t tell you any more,” he added. We understand he will be joined by wife Michelle and his two daughters. It comes after Michelle promised to return with her husband and family, after a short break in Mallorca last summer. She has twice had holidays on the island as friends of the former US ambassador to Spain James Costos. Obama and wife Michelle are also believed to have been at the wedding of tech tycoon Elon Musk’s brother in Girona last weekend. See page 3.
Still at it EXCLUSIVE By Laurence Dollimore
A SERIAL expat fraudster exposed many times by the Olive Press is incredibly STILL making thousands from scamming holidaymakers in Spain. Paula Neale is apparently conning countless ourists a month from rental scams, despite being arrested in May, in an ongoing police investigation. The Olive Press can reveal the British mother-of-two is continuing to snare victims while out on bail, after her arrest in Burgos. As well as new victims coming forward, we have been contacted by an old friend of Neale, 44, in the UK, who unwittingly allowed her to use her email and her PayPal account.
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Press has a copy of, there is a total of at least €17,830 taken via PayPal. One of the victims Alex McIntyre, who is listed on the payments, said he was scheduled to stay at a villa arranged by Neale - who uses the aliases Paula Kari and Gabriel Goodman - this week in Malaga. McIntyre paid €700 for the villa near Mijas, where his aunt lives. But when he showed his aunt the pictures of the villa, she couldn’t recognise the area and when she went to look for it couldn’t find it. McIntyre tried to contact Paula - who was using her Gabriel alias - but she ignored him until he tried to cancel his PayPal payment. “She got very angry and demanded I close the PayPal dispute,” McIntyre told the
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ning of the year by Neale, who she had met five years ago when she lived in Kent. “She said she had had all her belongings stolen and she said. had no money to pay for “It is amazing what she has got up to and I just feel repetrol or feed her children. “She told me she was in ally sad for those kids, who trouble and had to keep have not had a stable life changing her name and lo- since they were young. cation due to a stalker and I “They must be teenagers felt sorry for her,” she con- now and I dread to think what effect it has had on tinued. “She said she was getting them.” work writing scripts but she The Olive Press has printed needed a friend to help her nearly a dozen stories over collect the payments and I the past FOUR years detailing how the British fraudster stupidly believed her.” was cheatOver the next ing holifour months daymakshe agreed ers out of to send her thousands. Thomas Cook Gone fishin’ Thanks to cash passport ACCUSED: Neale our tip-offs, payments, as Olive Press, “she blocked the the Spanish money me on social media after came in via authorities telling me I would be get- her PayPal aceventually ting no refund.” launched count. This week her long time “But that was Operation friend in the UK, who asked until a bank Neale earliwhere?? ANTHONY’S to remain anonymous, told flagged up a er this year us: “She has to be stopped. payment and PAULA: A previous in a bid to 2 for 1 issue from 59€ It is completely wrong what I did my retrack her she is doing.” search and found all your down. The mother-of-two, based articles and reported her to She was eventually picked in Edinburgh, said she had the1 UK Untitled-1.pdf 16/06/2017 15:36 and Spanish police,” up in Burgos in May as she been contacted at the beginwas getting into a stolen car. She had managed to evade police for a number of months by hiding in Girona and even in France, where she set up a new Tinder profile, describing herself C as ‘not your typical English woman abroad’. M Voted BEST
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POLICE are in pursuit of seasoned expat fraudster Paula Neale who has fled to France following an Olive Press probe. Detectives contacted us following a tip off that the mother-of-two was staying in a hotel in Catalunya and preparing to cross the border this week. She had been staying at Hotel Figueres, near Girona, and asked to pay for the room using her ‘husband’s’ credit card. It comes after four years of investigation by the Olive Press has uncovered more than 30 victims of her rental scams undertaken in various false names.
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THE alleged lynchpin in Spain’s biggest ever political fraud claims he made SIX previous confessions up. Former Junta employment boss Francisco Guerrero insists he did not personally gain from the ERE scandal, that saw up to a billion euros embezzled over a decade. He claims he only gave details of the so-called ‘reptile fund’ that he allegedly oversaw, after police put considerable pressure on him. Guerrero is facing eight years in prison for embezzling €65 million of money from the €647 million emergency public fund that he managed between 1999 and 2008.
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A SEASONED British fraudster has struck again. Paula Neale - exposed in the Olive Press four times in two years - has brought her dirty tricks to the Costa del Sol again. The rentals conwoman has snared a series of unsuspecting foreigners through her well oiled ruse of sub-letting properties. A number of victims have lost thousands in lost deposits, after she took over a two-bedroom apartment in Mijas. Using the alias ‘Sharon Tate’ she rented the Riviera apartment for three months, before
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VICTIMS are erty fraudster hunting an alleged propCosta del Sol who has vanished from owing tens euros. of thousandsthe EXCLUSIVE of The Guardia By Imogen days as a holiday Civil confirmed Calderwood rental, but is investigating me around she horse-owninglast night it posits becca Wells an 11-monthit and convinced me showed to rent properties expat Reto sign contract. cias against after receiving four claim “I want that she has denun- One to. no clared. her caught and punished,” Page 11 Briton Wells,her. victim, British 37, also known he deexpat Raymond accused of told the Olive Wells, a mother-of-two as Prior, duping people Press: “I Iost Paul, into paying is posit on renting a €1,000 de- hampton, appears from Wolverde- “She had a home to same trick actually only she didn’t own. at different have repeated the the rented it for properties around four A region over the last eight Facebook years. campaign launched by has now been ing to gather the group, aimas possible. as many victims In the case Yorkshire, of Paul, 60, from as a deposithe put down €500 first month’sand €500 for the erty in La rent at the propCala de Mijas August. in But after just asked Paul three days Wells clear out ‘so and his wife to certificate an urgent energy dealt with’. matter could be AN embattled “We were left two days, and in the dark for centre owner animal rescue upon returning the place has admitted discovered is ‘out of control’. staying there,another couple Kim Halliwell (above) our possessionswith many of now agreed to allow an has still inside,” 15 dogs he said. initial and “We still haven’t her Mijas many cats to leave kennels, following get some things managed to an Olive Press investigation. back, absolutely furious andwe are It comes after police filed a denuncia.” also inhave spected the site, following When Paul various denuncias set up an urgent mer from formeeting with Wells to dis- Afterstaff. cuss what BLAZE: F1 we told of had legend Gachot the ‘terrible failed to show. happened, she conditions’ (inset) loses at Kim’s Animal However another Rescue, friends yacht in fire and supportcouple in ers rallied their early 20s also turned around with aim of cutting up telling him the numberthe similar amountthey had lost a animals by of of money. The Olive half. “Lots of her Press attended victims are worse situation emergency meeting, in an than us, anda various who knows other centresspoke with are still to how many more found new and has woodwork,” come out of the We have volunteers. he added. Another victim appeal to now launched an is Stuart Hall, who lost out animals. find homes for the 44, and his Continues
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