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Have you seen Senor Boom Boom Bloomfield? A MULTI-MILLIONAIRE British property investor who failed to pay taxes for 24 years is reportedly living in Spain. Entrepreneur Paul Bloomfield enjoyed a life of luxury with several homes, a helicopter and private jet without submitting a single tax return. wqvxzw Nicknamed ‘Boom Boom Bloomfield’ after his lucrative property deals in the 80s, he has now emerged as one of those who had offshore accounts with HSBC in Switzerland.The bank has been the subject of a major scandal after it came to light that thousands of its British customers were encouraged to set up offshore accounts.
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Bloomfield, who helped organise the financing of the new Wembley stadium in 2003, met HMRC investigators in 2011 but told them he did not own an offshore bank account, any property or have any income of his own. But the HSBC files given to HMRC reportedly show Bloomfield did have an offshore account with the bank in 1993. Tax officials are said not to believe denials about not having any income and concluded he was liable for tax for the past 20 years, but he was not prosecuted. Have you seen Bloomfield? Contact newsdesk@theolivepress.es with any information.
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Islamic takeover EXCLUSIVE By Tom Powell GOOGLE has launched an investigation into why its map site lists a key Andalucian town as being under Muslim rule. It comes after the Olive Press spotted that Google Maps was labelling Algeciras as a ‘Taifa’, an Islamic term unused in Spain since the middle ages. A probe is now underway to find out how the bizarre ‘editing error’ labelled the Cadiz port with the title, which ceased to exist in 1058. Under Islamic rule, the Al Andalus caliphate divided its regions into taifas including Ronda, Sevilla and Granada.
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It comes, controversially, after extremist Muslim group Isis announced its desire to reclaim Al Andalus, ‘the land of our forefathers’.
Google probe after Olive Press spots Algeciras is apparently still under 11th century Muslim rule Osama Bin Laden also made claims to retake the former Moorish region for Islam. It is not known if a member of Google’s staff is an Isis sympathiser or whether an outsider is responsible. An embarrassed Google spokesman thanked the Olive Press for ‘flagging this mistake which we have worked to rectify’. She said: “This has now been fixed and should start to appear on Maps soon.” “I can confirm this is not the work of a hacker,” she added, putting the strange label down to a mere ‘editing error’. However, Briton Nick Orson
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who spotted the ‘strange case’ while searching for a Spanish holiday destination, said: “The whole thing is very mysterious. “You don’t just accidentally label a place ‘Taifa’ by pressing the wrong key. You need to have historical knowledge and use it deliberately,” added the retired biologist. Isis has announced frightening plans for one single Muslim caliphate, spanning from Morocco to China, with Spain
as the main European target. The Taifa of Algeciras existed for 23 years in 11th century Moorish Andalucia, until it was annexed to the Taifa of Sevilla. The reaction to the ‘editing error’ has been one of bewilderment. A spokesman from Algeciras Town Hall told the Olive Press: “It is a curious error, perhaps Google meant the ‘Bay of Algeciras’, or maybe Google was around 1000 years ago.”
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