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Life in the shade
THE enclave of Zagaleta has often been described as It’s one of Spain’s most exclusive place‘southern Europe’s to live’. on behind the highmost expensive places to live. But few And when you count tech fences of La Zagaleta, know what goes ties, captains of industryon the celebri- a giant the second member and, now, the palace. Olive Press of the family,” adds global dictators who Property takes a peekwhere Putin is said to own the agent. stalk its privileged spaces, that’s no surprise. gated community that “It’s real royal golf The multi-million price rity is ‘its number one claims that secu- “Our perimeter shielding, of the locals are to and the attitudes priority’. tags certainly Indeed, match,” he confollow suit, as does tems and security routinesdetection sys- around 240 homes security is of so much its incredible golf have so far been tinued. “It’s ultra exclusive and will thwart imporcourse, which has just tance so snobby, way more than a few hundred year, that after a late-night incident last most attempts to attack properties, built. the Chelsea or people allowed to which explains why an Israeli company the incident rate is “Most homes go for around 7 to 8 mil- Cheshire set. was commisthere’s its intriguingplay… and then sioned to build a new “Owners put 10,000 recent links to fence. ‘high tech electric’ 100 times lower than in other residen- lion euros,” explains one British agent, Russian dictator Vladamir tial complexes,” he claimed. who has sold a number club bar so they can euros behind the Putin, who Expected always get a drink owns a property there. The estate there over the last year. of properties or cigar when they to become the most want and “And some have expen- Baraka’ and was originally called ‘La even doubled The giant 2000 sqm sive in Spain, literally it owned crawling with Astonthe place is in price over the last by disgraced bilthe Rock of the King palace, known as 900-hectare estatewill run around the lionaire Saudi Martins, few and DB4s and years.” that (or Roca del Rey) McClarens.” counts on its own private vis, between Marbella sits in Benaha- Khashoggi, who arms dealer, Adnan All surrounded Thesedays, was and the foothills licopter pad and bowling vineyard, he- of the Serrania de some of the world’s said to have held they have either by deep woodland, galeta is runthe company behind ZaRonda. alley. sea by most or Ignacio mountain views debauched (or both), But it’s the three floors “The residents are parties at the hunting ter his father died two Perez Diaz, afwhile there is also lodge in the equestrian years ago. a private According that has got eyebrows underground euros each in two being charged 5,000 1970s. center and golf course, Europe’s security and raised among pay for it,” reveals installments to help Today it is the with in 2019, itsto its last available accounts clubhouse of the resort, a second one on the way. a source. “They are immediate holding As revealed by the defence elite. not exactly happy about which was acquired company Zagaleta International by a group of in- The amazing course, said to be one of it.” month, it counts Olive Press last It comes after Head UK Inc is based in Panama, while on armed guards of security Jose vestors in 1989 led by Andalucian bank- the best in Spain, only counts on 250 two other enand has a deep bunker Miguel Navarro boasted er, Enrique Perez monitoring the Flores, who came members, which is because only home- tities, Soto Properties SA and Campo last year that Straits of Gibraltar owners can join. Alto SA, are based in 24/7. And this in a his team have a ‘maximum response from Huelva. Switzerland. time of three minutes The giant estate was “The price for membership to any alert’. alone is approximately 420 then divided into 120,000 euros and plots, of which then it’s 10,000 a See pages II and III to find out year for the lead member more on the properties and 7,000 for Zagaleta available in
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HYPNOTISED BY JESUS!
HE grew his hair long like Jesus and was looked up to ‘like a god’. A so-called ‘healer’ (or curandero) he had a herbal medicine practice on the costas and a series of intelligent graduate friends. But sex cult leader Tio Toni, 64, was allegedly an evil child abuser, who brainwashed dozens of people into effectively living in slavery. Now, after police arrested Tio Toni - real name Antonio GL - along with eight other followers, five of them female, he is set to face 80 years in prison.
PSYCHIATRIST: Miguel Perlado
Victims and therapists tell Olive Press of ordeal at the hands of sex abuse cult leader Tio Toni By Jorge Hinojosa
In a shocking investigation, the Olive Press can reveal how Antonio allegedly hypnotised his followers to believe he was a spiritual healer over a staggering 30-year period. Victims and psychologists told us how the alternative medicine practitioner conned his respectable middle class patients into giving him money and sometimes even their homes. He even managed to enlist them into ritual sex sessions, some of them filmed on camera. In some of his most depraved acts, he allegedly took the virginity of teenagers, in front of his followers, also on camera. He managed to first snare his victims through an alternative health practice in the coastal city of Castellon. At the clinic, which doubled as a health shop, he conned his victims into believing their health and lives
vices and computers and ‘a bunker full of security and surveillance equipment’ revealed the local mayor. There were also allegedly videos of sexual orgies in which ritual practices regularly took place. Meanwhile, they seized training manuals for members, including one, ‘A course of Miracles’ which gave them a series of exercises and orders to follow.
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This week, a long-time neighbour of his home in Castellon, told the Olive Press Tio Toni would initially not charge for the ‘health’ services he provided. The woman, a fortune teller, visited his practice in Castellon on many occasions and ‘nearly got sucked in’. She said: “I spent months going to his consultation because he said he was a healer. He put his hands on me, claiming it would cure me. “But it soon became clear he was trying to manipulate me, especially when after a few sessions he asked me to go to a private back room with him. “That was the moment when I felt something strange was going on.” Asking to remain anonymous, she continued: “He was over-friendly with me, and told me he was sent from God and that’s why he grew his hair out like Jesus. “He was certainly very Portals Nous, persuasive and I saw a lot of people be07181, come totally obsessed with him,” she continMallorca. ued. “He made them SITE: The sect’s compound in rural Valencia feel they were totally
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- would improve by joining his cult, called Vistabella. As well as saying that he had been chosen ‘as an envoy from God’ and he was ‘cleaning up society’, he told them he was able to cure their ailments, including cancer. But once they had moved to live on his giant inland estate in the rural Maestrazgo region of Valencia, they effectively became his slaves. Working around the clock on a schedule their leader dictated, they had no idea, at least initially, that behind the scenes he was allegedly abusing their children and often their wives and partners. When police finally raided his huge finca, Mas de la Chaparra, a bright pink building, near the village of Vistabella del Maestrat, on March 15, they were astonished by what they found. Aside from €15,000 in cash, they discovered over 100 valuable watches, but the most unusual was a collection of keepsakes and mementos. These included drawers full of bizarre hair cuttings and dozens of religious calling cards. There were numerous storage de-
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SECT: Leader Tio Toni loved.” Over the course of ‘a few years’ she lost an alarming four friends to the sect, as well as a female member of her own family. “I was so worrie I ended up organising a meeting with them to try and tell them that this guy was manipulating us, but they just refused to believe me,” she continued. She revealed how Toni continually managed to expand and add to his inland estate in order to house his growing number of ‘believers’. When she tried more recently to get her friends out, she revealed how Toni had sent some of them to her home threatening to expose her as a witch. “They accused me of having done witchcraft on a child in the sect who had got really ill or died,” she explained. “It was very intimidating.” A psychologist, who called in police after he began working with a number of victims last year, said the abuse on the group and, in particular, children was ‘truly shocking’. Miguel Perlado told the Olive Press that the victims had first come to him ‘very confused’ about what was going on inside. “They could barely even describe the place where they had lived for so long,” he revealed, adding that they were threatened about speaking out ‘or they would get bad energy’. He said they ended up becoming very isolated from their family and friends and Tio Toni even made them become isolated from each other and ‘encouraged conflict between them’.
Burdened
They were burdened with many chores and the house was continually upgraded and maintained, so they ‘could not think for themselves’. He added that many of the minors Continues on Page 2