Sean Connery is facing a fresh probe into tax deals in the Costa del Sol, it emerged last night.

Sean Connery is facing a fresh probe into tax deals in the Costa del Sol, it emerged last night.
A Spanish judge has widened an investigation into alleged financial irregularities surrounding the Scots star, 79, and wife Micheline Roquebrune, 81.

Officials suspect those involved in the sale of Connery's former home in Marbella of up to £2.25million in tax evasion and money-laundering.

But now judge Ricardo Puyol wants to quiz them on a separate multi-million pound land sale in Malaga six years ago.

Investigators believe a property firm linked to Sir Sean and his wife failed to pay £1.4million of tax on the sale of development rights to land it owned on the outskirts of the city.

Sir Sean and his wife lived in Marbella from the Seventies to the late Nineties - entertaining stars including Richard Burton, Michael Caine and George Best in the beachside villa.

They sold it for a reported $9million (£6million) - and 72 luxury flats were built there, now worth £2million each. Police raided offices in Marbella and Madrid in May in an operation codenamed Goldfinger - after the 1964 Bond film Sir Sean starred in - and seized 30,000 documents.

The extension of the Connery probe comes less than a month after he was reportedly ordered to pay £2.75million to a court investigating the sale of the Marbella villa, called Malibu. The couple were given 30 days to pay the deposit as a bond against possible future fines. Neither have charged with any offence.



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