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Tried and tested tips from new A PENNILESS pensioner is blogger the Spanish Guiri desperately trying to clear Page 41 her name in a massive money laundering scandal. The 78-year-old British expat has spent 15 years battling to prove her innocence after a string of UK police investigations. Yet the former primary school teacher suspects an ex-husband is entirely to blame for the labyrinthine mix-up. Now forced to squat in a dilapidated home, in Salobrena, pensioner Patience Kelly, has taken matters into her own hands after a three-year money launderWhy our reporter had ing investigation left her to NOT break the ice on impecunious. his date in San Pedro Led by Staffordshire police, Page 24 investigations began in 2005
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EXCLUSIVE By Iona Napier & Rob Horgan after £135,000 (€180,000) ‘went missing’ from the sale of Kelly’s Essex home which she owned with her ex-husband. She insists she has no idea where the money is and suspects her ex-husband might be behind it. Police and council letters seen by the Olive Press claim Kelly committed fraud by failing to declare her Spanish assets. In total, they believed she had ‘laundered’ up to €2.5 million through ‘three or four’ Spanish villas, which were not declared. However, Kelly insists she has only ever owned one house in Spain and the €2.5 million relates to the purchase of properties with her ex-husband in the UK in the 1980s. She insists she has ‘no idea’ where the money is now, but believes her ex-husband may still have it hidden somewhere. However, based on the evidence before the authorities,
WHILE the Royal Family led a military parade for Spanish National Day, left-wing politicians around the country were quick to dub it a ‘celebration of genocide’. A growing section of Spanish society is now openly questioning whether they should be celebrating Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the New World with a national holiday. Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias predictably caused headlines when he rejected King Felipe’s invite to the Royal reception in Madrid on Monday. But it was left to other leaders, including Barcelona mayor Ada Colau, to openly speak out.
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DETERMINED: Kelly wants to clear her name she was evicted from her council flat in Staffordshire in 2007 for benefit fraud. While police ‘mysteriously’ dropped the investigation a year later, she has still not been publicly cleared of the allegations. “I have spent the last 15 years trying to clear my name and been treated like a criminal throughout,” she told the Olive Press. “I have lost hundreds of thousands in the process and have
lived a hand-to-mouth existence throughout.” Staffordshire police confirmed they were aware of the case, but would not comment on why it had apparently been stopped. A source at Staffordshire council revealed there was ‘a stack of paperwork’ on Kelly and that she was ‘well known’ in the area. Officially though, a spokesman confirmed there was ‘no current case’ against her.
Mayor of Cadiz Jose Maria ‘Kichi’ Gonzalez criticised the 3,500-strong Madrid military parade, complete with aeroplanes, insisting: “We never discovered America, we massacred and subjected a continent to our culture in the name of God. Nothing to celebrate.” It is estimated some 50 million indigenous Americans died from violence as well as disease during centuries of Spanish rule, after Columbus landed in the late 15th century. As Colau tweeted: “I am ashamed of the state for celebrating genocide and, on top of that, with a military parade that cost €800,000!” Podemos’ leader in Andalucia, Teresa Rodriguez added: “I think a national holiday should mark one’s own liberation and not the slavery of another.” Thousands of citizens agreed, taking to Twitter to vent their disapproval through the hashtag ‘#nadaquecelebrar’ (nothing to celebrate). However, many thousands still lined the Madrid streets to celebrate ‘Hispanic day’, desperate to gain a view of the Royal princesses.