Mother of missing Amy believes daughter is still alive · TheJournal.ie

Mother of missing Amy believes daughter is still alive · TheJournal.ie: "MOTHER of a Dublin teenager who went missing in Spain almost three years ago has said she still believes her daughter is alive – and that she has been brainwashed by an older man.
Amy Fitzpatrick (then 15) disappeared on the way home from a friend’s house in the Costa del Sol at 10pm on New Year’s Day in 2008, and has not been seen since.
Her mother Audrey told today’s Irish Examiner that she would mark the anniversary of Amy’s disappearance this Saturday by retracing the last known steps of her schoolgirl daughter before she vanished.
“She’s somewhere, but I don’t know where,” she said."

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2 College students murdered in Mexican border city - Fox News Latino

2 College students murdered in Mexican border city - Fox News Latino: "Two college students were fatally shot and set on fire in this violent Mexican border city, authorities said Tuesday.

The victims were identified as two males, ages 18 and 19, who attended the Autonomous University of Chihuahua, a public institution in the likenamed state.

Their charred bodies were found Monday inside a pickup truck belonging to one of them.

The students were chased down by armed men who shot them, doused their bodies with gasoline and set them ablaze inside the truck, Juarez police said.

The mother of one victim told reporters her son was not involved in any criminal activity and that she had no idea why he would have been targeted.

Her husband said it would be pointless to demand justice for his son, 'because here there is no justice."

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Spanish police arrested a gang of British fraudsters who allegedly used a Gibraltar bank account to help them scam E400,000

 "Spanish police arrested a gang of British fraudsters who allegedly used a Gibraltar bank account to help them scam E400,000 selling non-existent real estate in Turkey.

The gang operated on the Costa del Sol, as well as in Alicante and Turkey, and posed as property developers building top-end resorts in Turkey.


The scam was elaborate and the gang had prepared plans and offices in order to draw their victims in. They also worked with estate agents in the UK. “In this manner they would get their victims to pay important sums destined for the completion of the project into bank accounts in Gibraltar and Turkey,” the Policia Nacional said in a statement. The Spanish police did not identify the bank in Gibraltar and it was not clear last night whether the authorities here had been contacted for assistance with the investigation. They said the gang’s leader was arrested in Alicante but the investigation remained open and further arrests could not be ruled out. Numerous victims had been identified already – mostly foreigners living in Spain – but there may be more, the Spanish police added."

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K.P.G is accused of selling drugs at a bar he ran on the Costa del Sol.

Wanted drug trafficker arrested in Calahonda bar | Olive Press Newspaper | News Spain: "Dennis Patrick O’Brien of Liverpool, 61, and a 43-year-old Mancunian known by initials K.P.G have been arrested last week on Mijas Costa.
The arrests have been coordinated by Spain’s National Police and UK’s Serious Organised Crime Unit as part of operation Captura.
O’Brien was arrested in Trafalgar Bar at the Calahonda del Sol urbanisation. He’s a key member of the Kelly family from the Garston area of Liverpool and has been on the run for four years.
O’Brien has a pending life sentence for smuggling one and a half tones of cocaine into the UK. He also has charges for ambushing armoured bank vans and has a murder charge for the killing on William Osu in 1982.

K.P.G is accused of selling drugs at a bar he ran on the Costa del Sol. Sizeable amounts of marijuana, hashish and cocaine were found on his premises and several clients were carrying drugs on them."

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Alleged Australian drug lord arrested in Cyprus - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Alleged Australian drug lord arrested in Cyprus - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): "Hakan Ayik appeared in court in the port of Kyrenia, where he was ordered to be held for another six days while Turkish Cypriot police continue their investigation.

Ayik, who evaded capture in Cyprus a month ago, is on the most wanted list of the Australian Crime Commission.

He fled Australia in August when New South Wales police issued a warrant for his arrest.

Ayik, who was raised in Sydney and has a Turkish background, is closely connected to a Sydney bikie gang. He is known as a fitness fanatic and is a bar and brothel owner.

Turkish Cypriot police say they seized a laptop computer and equipment used to process drugs and eight mobile phones."

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The Press Association: 'Most wanted' suspect held in Spain

The Press Association: 'Most wanted' suspect held in Spain: "One of the UK's most wanted fugitives has been arrested in Spain.

Dennis O'Brien, from Liverpool, is suspected of leading a gang which plotted to import £166 million of cocaine into the UK from Peru.
The 62-year-old was found at a Costa del Sol bar on Saturday after a joint operation by the British Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) and Spanish police.
He is one of the fugitives featured in Operation Captura - Crimestoppers' campaign to trace suspected British criminals who are on the run in Spain.
Police caught up with O'Brien at the Trafalgar Bar, in Calahonda, a coastal town between Marbella and Fuengirola.
A spokesman said: 'Dennis Patrick O'Brien was arrested on Saturday in Calahonda in the Costa del Sol"

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ANDALUCIA, was the Spanish region where the highest number of houses were sold in October

"ANDALUCIA, was the Spanish region where the highest number of houses were sold in October, with 5,214, according to the National Statistics Institute. Of these, 3,896 were new properties. The lowest number of sales in Spain were seen in Mellila and Ceuta with 36 and 42 respectively."

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nine years in prison and fines of €1.1m each for trafficking with Ecstasy.

: "THREE men have been sentenced by Malaga Provincial Court to a total of nine years in prison and fines of €1.1m each for trafficking with Ecstasy. In July 2008, one of the men, an Italian, travelled to a café in Madrid where he met with the other"

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THE €30 million villa of Russian promoter, Vladimir Beniachvili, is being demolished

 "THE €30 million villa of Russian promoter, Vladimir Beniachvili, is being demolished 12 years after it was built on protected land in Malaga City. He built what he conceived as the Hispano-Russian Centre on protected land in Pinares de San Anton, one of Malaga city’s remaining green areas."

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Red-handed | Costa del Sol | News |

 Red-handed | Costa del Sol | News | The Largest English Language Newspapers in Spain: "THREE men aged between 19 and 24 were arrested by Local Police in Churriana when they were caught attempting to force open a car window. They had previously forced open seven parked cars and a van."

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Internal Affairs arrest Mijas Civil Guard in drugs investigation

Internal Affairs arrest Mijas Civil Guard in drugs investigation: "There were property searches in Málaga City where an ex member of the force was also arrested

A Civil Guard and a former officer with the force have been arrested in Málaga in an operation linked to drug trafficking which remains open and which saw at least two property searches taking place in Málaga City on Wednesday morning.

Diario Sur reports that the Civil Guard was arrested by Internal Affairs at the barracks in Mijas where he was based. The ex officer was taken into custody in the provincial capital.

The paper notes information from sources that there appears to be no connection with a similar case last month when 10 suspects were taken into custody on drugs charges. They included two Civil Guard based in Málaga and another based in Córdoba."

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Málaga Guardia Civil drugs chief arrested

Málaga Guardia Civil drugs chief arrested: "Málaga Anti-Drug Chief of the Guardia Civil has been arrested in an operation against drug trafficking. It comes as part of an operation which started on Wednesday and saw earlier reports of another Civil Guard and a former officer arrested.

The new arrest was also carried out on Wednesday by agents of the Internal Affairs of the Guardia Civil. It’s understood the arrested man, who has not been named in reports, was head of the EDOA Anti-drug and Organised Crime Team, which leads several different groups specialising in the persecution and fight against drug trafficking in the province.

Diario Sur reports that as many as five other Guardia Civil have now been arrested as part of the internal affairs operation which remains open. At least one of the Guardia Civil arrested is based at the barracks in Mijas, while others are thought to be based in Málaga and Córdoba."

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British couple robbed, stabbed and poisoned on dream holiday - Telegraph

British couple robbed, stabbed and poisoned on dream holiday - Telegraph: "Paul Sparrow, 58, and partner Valerie Roberts, 46, were set upon by a gang with knives as they sat on rocks on a beach on the Caribbean island of Margarita off Venezuela.
Mr Sparrow had a noose put around his neck and knife held against his throat.
When he struggled with one of the three attackers he was repeatedly stabbed in the back and hit over the head with a rock.
Miss Roberts, a gardener, also suffered stab wounds to the back and had her throat, arms and legs slashed in the horrific attack.
Their bag and camera were stolen in the robbery, which left the pair bleeding heavily and in need of hospital treatment which cost them £2,000 to fund."

Refunds promised for Lady Gaga fans cheated in Madrid

Refunds promised for Lady Gaga fans cheated in Madrid: "Some of the fans will have the option of exchanging their fake tickets for another of the diva's concerts

The hundreds of disappointed fans who were turned away at the door after unknowingly buying fake tickets for the Lady Gaga concert in Madrid on Sunday are to be compensated by the websites where they bought them online.

Many of the fakes were bought months in advance over the Internet from sites which act as an intermediary between the vendor and the purchaser. But when their serial numbers were checked at the doors to the Palacio de Deportes in Madrid, they turned out to be copies of eight authentic tickets and some 200 people were turned away.

20 minutos reports that the websites concerned have now offered refunds after advice to those affected from the consumers association, FACUA, that they have the right to claim compensation in addition to a refund. It’s understood that some of the sites will also be offering to exchange the fakes for free tickets to another of Lady Gaga’s concerts."

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Pedro Román declares in the Malaya court case in Málaga

Pedro Román declares in the Malaya court case in Málaga: "ex Deputy Mayor of Marbella was the right hand man to Mayor Jesús Gil

The continuing Malaya corruption case in the Provincial Court in Málaga, has been hearing the declaration of the ex Deputy Mayor of Marbella, Pedro Román, over the past two days, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Pedro Román, himself a real estate promoter, was the right hand man of the Marbella Mayor, Jesús Gil y Gil, between 1991 and 1998 and was known at the start of the Gil years as ‘the smile of the regime’, given his gentle manner. He got on well with Gil and even lent him 100 million pesetas so he could acquire the Sierrablanca urbanization in Marbella.

In court on Tuesday, Román tried to put as much distance as he could from the man at the centre of the Malaya affair, the ex Municipal Real Estate Assessor in Marbella Town Hall, Juan Antonio Roca. However the two men were two of the four who set up the Swiss registered company, Lispag AG, to purchase a plot of land in Puerto Banús for 4.3 million €. After, in September 2001, the land was reclassified this land was sold for 10.45 million to the Granada builder, José Avila Rojas."

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British paedophile sentenced to prison in Spain

British paedophile sentenced to prison in Spain: "plain clothes officer caught him downloading images of naked children in a Málaga web café

A 49 year old British man, unidentified in reports but with previous convictions in the UK for corruption of minors, has been found guilty in Spain of downloading photos of naked children in a web café in Málaga.

He is understood from the EFE news agency to have accepted a 15 month sentence in a plea bargain agreed before the trial was due to start at the provincial court.

He was arrested in April 2008 after he was seen downloading the images by a plain clothes policeman who saw him attempting to close down the window he was viewing. The officer confiscated five discs and a pen drive which was later found to contain 63 images of naked children.

The suspect had two warrants for sexual abuse out for his arrest when he was taken into custody, both of them issued by the National Court. EFE also notes an extradition order in 2002.
The 49 year old changed his name legally in 2003."

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Man shoots four people dead in Olot

Man shoots four people dead in Olot: "man has shot dead four people in Olot, Barcelona, this (Wednesday) morning in two separate shooting incidents.

His economic situation is being blamed for the crime, with the man first killing two builders, a father and son owners of the Construccions Tubert company, 62 year old Joan and 35 year old Ángel Tubert, where the shooter was reportedly about to be made redundant. They were in the La Cuina de l’Anna bar in the Canya area of the town.

Then he went and shot dead a local CAM Caixa del Mediterrani bank deputy manager, Rafael Turró, and one of the bank’s office workers, Anna Molas.

He shot the builders at 0910, and then drove his Suzuki car to the bank and carried out the second killings at 0930. He then handed himself into the police outside the bank. The local police had stopped there as the shooter had double parked.
The shooter’s words as he was being taken into custody were ‘Now I am satisfied’.

The shooter has now been arrested by the Catalan regional police, Los Mossos d’Esquadra. He has been named as 57 year old Pere P.P., who lives with his father in Sant Esteve d’en Bas, and who has no previous record.

A witness told Europa Press that the man involved was ‘strange’ and that he would often leave his work dressed as ‘sherrif’ complete with fake pistol and sherrif’s badge"

Spain-deaths father convicted of child sex abuse

 Spain-deaths father convicted of child sex abuse: "man whose partner is accused of murdering their two children has been found guilty of child sex abuse.
Martin Smith, 45, of Carlisle, had denied 11 counts of rape, attempted rape and indecent assault on his victim, who is now in her 20s.
But he was found guilty of the charges at Manchester Crown Court on Wednesday.
His partner, Lianne Smith, 44, is accused of killing their children Rebecca, five, and Daniel, 11 months, in a Spanish resort in May.
Smith, originally from North Shields, used hypnosis and violence to groom and sexually abuse the girl, the court heard.
Giving evidence via video link from Spain where she is being held in custody, Lianne Smith said she had never had any concerns about her partner of 18 years."

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No cabinet 'dissent' over prison policy, insists Clarke

No cabinet 'dissent' over prison policy, insists Clarke: "Ken Clarke has said there is 'no dissent' among ministers about proposed reforms to sentencing and penal policy designed to cut reoffending rates.
The justice secretary has been attacked by sections of the media for pledging to curb the rise in prisoner numbers.
Mr Clarke told MPs it was 'right' to imprison serious criminals and he was not at odds with Home Secretary Theresa May over whether prison worked.
He insisted he had never called for an end to short sentences."

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Crime drops across Andalucia for a second year running

Crime drops across Andalucia for a second year running: "The crime rate has decreased by 2.5% in Andalusia in 2010, in addition to a 5.36% drop in 2009. In particular, Granada stands, for the second consecutive year, as the third province with the largest drop in Spain.
Málaga province, meanwhile, has 60% of all the delinquency complaints of Andalusia, which also has the highest number of 'overburdened' local police stations in Spain, as the case of those located in the municipalities of Malaga, Marbella, Torremolinos or Fuengirola. In this sense, the chief of police in eastern Andalusia, Pedro Mélida, said that 'if Málaga sneezes, the whole region catches a cold.'
He has also stated, during a meeting with senior police officers of the Police Headquarters of Granada, as well as provincial commissioner, together with those of Almería, Jaén and Málaga, and to which has also assisted the Government Delegate of Malaga , Hilario López Luna, 'that these four provinces will again see another reduction in crime this year'."

89 Marbella properties are no longer illegal

89 Marbella properties are no longer illegal: "Approval to regularise the situation of the properties in La Corniche came from the Town Hall on Tuesday

Another urbanisation built illegally in Marbella has now been brought into line with the town’s new PGOU local development plan, affecting 89 homes on La Corniche Urbanisation in Nueva Andalucía.

Approval for the move to regularise the properties was agreed at a meeting of the local government on Tuesday."

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WikiLeaks cable: Americans tried to cover up death of Spanish journalist

WikiLeaks cable: Americans tried to cover up death of Spanish journalist: "Earlier this year, Spanish High Court judge Santiago Pedraz issued an arrest warrant to find and capture U.S. soldiers believed to have fired a tank's guns at a hotel for journalists in Baghdad, Iraq, that had been approved by the Pentagon as a safe haven for the press. Killed in the 2003 attack were a Reuters cameraman and Spanish journalist, Jose Couso.
Now comes a new twist to the ongoing controversy over the slaying in Spain via the trove of U.S. State Department documents recently made public by the WikiLeaks website.
Couso's family in Spain have launched a legal inquiry based on the U.S. cables, alleging possible collusion to cover up a potential war crime between Spanish and American officials. 'While we are careful to show our respect for the tragic death of Couso and for the independence of the Spanish judicial system, behind the scenes we have fought tooth and nail to make the charges disappear,' Eduardo Aguirre, an American ambassador to Spain, wrote in one 2007 cable posted by the El País newspaper. Then, just one month later, Aguirre told then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that the Spanish government 'has been helpful behind the scenes in getting the case appealed.”"

89 Marbella properties are no longer illegal

89 Marbella properties are no longer illegal: "Another urbanisation built illegally in Marbella has now been brought into line with the town’s new PGOU local development plan, affecting 89 homes on La Corniche Urbanisation in Nueva Andalucía.

Approval for the move to regularise the properties was agreed at a meeting of the local government on Tuesday. The compensation system set out to bring Marbella’s irregular properties into legality brings the town, in this case, 12,000 m2 of land to be allocated as green zones and monetary compensation of more than 700,000 €.

Felix Romero, spokesman for the local government, told the press that the Town Hall has also set the developer a security deposit of 250,000 € as a guarantee that building work which must take place in the area as part of the agreement is, in fact, carried out."

Investing for Profit in the Russian Mafia States Stock Market, Goodbye Chinese Century? :: The Market Oracle :: Financial Markets Analysis & Forecasting Free Website

Investing for Profit in theRussian Mafia States Stock Market, Goodbye Chinese Century? :: The Market Oracle :: Financial Markets Analysis & Forecasting Free Website: "//The Spanish Strategy to Combat the Russian Mafia: Follow the Money//
9. (C) Grinda traced the history of the Russian mafia in Spain to the mid-1990s, when several vory v zakone began to enter Spain. He said that since 2004 Spanish prosecutors have created a formal strategy to 'behead' the Russian mafia in Spain. He explained that this has been a top-down strategy done through extensive investigations of criminal actions by these vory v zakone living in Spain. These individuals have no known jobs and unknown sources of income, yet they live in large mansions. Spanish prosecutors have concluded that money-laundering is likely involved and the challenge has been how to prove this. Grinda says that Spain's longtime experience in fighting drug traffickers' use of money laundering has proven valuable in this regard.
10. (C) Grinda says the money-laundering investigations have a two-fold objective: to prevent the targets from profiting from the original crime and to prevent the targets from gaining enough clout to enjoy economic influence, which Grinda suggested sooner or later always reaches political power. This is why Spain's Attorney General has grouped together the prosecutors' office for anti-corruption and organized crime. As part of this strategy to prevent mafiosos from enjoying economic influence, Spain's strategy includes the seizure of businesses, companies, furniture and other assets."

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400 Britons lost £43 million in Spanish property deal - Telegraph

 400 Britons lost £43 million in Spanish property deal - Telegraph: "investigation is now ongoing into Ocean View Properties, based in Birmingham, which was the British representative for Sun Golf Desarrollos Immobiliarios SL in Spain.
The company was formally dissolved in March last year when investigators and liquidators were brought in to try and recoup some of the losses for its creditors.
No charges have been brought, but the official receiver public interest unit in Manchester has until March 2011 to decide whether or not they will launch a civil case.
It is understood a police investigation was also undertaken, but the decision over whether to pursue criminal charges has yet to be made."

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WikiLeaks cables: Russian government 'using mafia for its dirty work' | World news | The Guardian

WikiLeaks cables: Russian government 'using mafia for its dirty work' World news The Guardian: "Spain conducted two major operations – codenamed Avispa (2005-07) and Troika (2008-09) – against mafia networks on its territory, resulting in the arrest of more than 60 suspects. They include four of the alleged leaders outside Russia: Gennady Petrov, Alexander Malyshev (Petrov's deputy), Vitaly Izguilov (a key lieutenant) and Kalashov. Despite this, the networks are said to have swiftly reconstituted.
On 13 January 2010 Gonzalez, a special prosecutor for corruption and organised crime, gave a 'detailed, frank' briefing to US officials in Madrid. In a classified presentation to a new US-Spain counter-terrorism and organised crime experts' working group he said the mafia now exercised tremendous control over sectors of the global economy.
He said Russia, Belarus and Chechnya – the Muslim republic of Russia run by a pro-Moscow president, Ramzan Kadyrov – were 'virtual 'mafia states' '. Ukraine was 'going to be one', he predicted. He spoke shortly before presidential elections in Ukraine won by the pro-Russian Viktor Yanukovych. The country is now back under Moscow's sway.
'For each of these countries … one cannot differentiate between the activities of the government and OC (organised crime) groups,' Gonzalez told the US delegation.
His observations are likely to provoke a hostile reaction from Russia's political leadership and could lead to a serious diplomatic falling out between Russia and Spain.
Gonzalez said it was an 'unanswered question' to what extent Russia's prime minister, Vladimir Putin, was personally 'implicated in the Russian mafia and controls the mafia's actions'."

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Now you can do your business from a warehouse in Fazakerley or a villa on the Costa. Only the location changes, nothing else

ECHO investigation: why Mersey criminals set up business on the continent - Liverpool Local News - News - Liverpool Echo: "sunshine of the Costa Del Sol also attracts its share of villains as the traditional route for much of Europe’s cannabis shipped in from Morocco.
As one security source said: “Gone are the days when an old bank robber went abroad to lie low, get away from the heat from the UK authorities and spend his ill-gotten gains while topping up his tan.
“It is not Sexy Beast [a crime movie starring Ray Winstone] anymore.
“Now, the people going out to Spain and elsewhere do it to continue in their criminal activity.
“If it happens to be they are on-the-run too, they will only have limited finances available to them and so to keep living in the life they have been become accustomed, they will look to make mon With mobiles and email, the world is a lot smaller than it used to be. Now you can do your business from a warehouse in Fazakerley or a villa on the Costa. Only the location changes, nothing else.”
Ken Gallagher, the Serious Organised Crime Agency’s head of European operations, said: “While Merseyside organised crime gangs may have a significant percentage of what we deal with, that is also true for other parts of the country."

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Russian organized crime networks

Asia Times Online :: Southeast Asia news and business from Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam: "America's Federal Bureau of Investigation, Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of Homeland Security and other agencies were investigating 'Russian organized crime networks' who were murdering and stealing in Thailand's most popular tourist beach resorts, according to a US Embassy cable released by WikiLeaks.

Thailand, a modernizing, Buddhist-majority Southeast Asian nation, has attracted criminals from all over the world who exploit its friendly ambiance, low-cost workers, often corrupt officials and sophisticated forgery and sex industry networks.

The 'confidential' US cable was headlined: 'RUSSIA LOOKS TO REINVIGORATE BILATERAL RELATIONS WITH THAILAND, AGAIN,' dated December 4, 2009,"

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why Mersey criminals set up business on the continent - Liverpool Local News - News - Liverpool Echo

ECHO investigation: why Mersey criminals set up business on the continent - Liverpool Local News - News - Liverpool Echo: "IF you ever want to see the world, join Merseyside Police... It is not a line you will see in the police recruitment literature – when they were recruiting before the recent cuts – but a commonly-held opinion among those tasked with catching the region’s criminals.
Only two forces in the UK, Merseyside and the Met, have “level three capability” – the ability to fight organised crime on an international level.
It is a necessary tool in the fight against crime, as recent arrests right across Europe show.
Within the last six months, more than 45 Merseysiders were arrested on the continent or its surrounding islands for drugs.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Merseyside crooks pioneered what would later become international drug-dealing networks and came to be known by the authorities as the “Liverpool Cartel”.
They were the first to take a risk and go to countries which were the hub of drug production to forge direct links, cutting out the middle man and netting themselves tidy sums."

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Brutal Gangs Terrorize Cyprus Online Gamblers | Casino Scam Report

Brutal Gangs Terrorize Cyprus Online Gamblers Casino Scam Report: "Gambling has always had a bit of danger attached to it whether doing it online or at any local casino, but danger takes on a completely new meaning if you live in Cyprus and gamble. Internet gambling is very popular in the country and it has made quite a few “business men” very wealthy. Some of these wealthy businessmen have even been considerate enough to “loan” out some money to other needy gamblers in exchange for just a “little extra cash”. However these generous businessmen are not very friendly when it’s time to pay them back when your late! Criminal Gangs are running rampant in Cyprus and brutalizing gamblers who owe them cash and can’t pay. They even go as far as holding people hostage, terrorizing them and taking personal items from their home while they wait for payments. Once the police have been involved, these terrorized people are too afraid of retaliation to make a statement to have these gang members arrested."

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Contador's Lawyers Using Gasquet's Cocaine Defense - Sports News Story - WSB Atlanta

Contador's Lawyers Using Gasquet's Cocaine Defense - Sports News Story - WSB Atlanta: "Alberto Contador's lawyers are using tennis player Richard Gasquet's successful appeal against cocaine use as part of their own defense for a failed Tour de France doping test.
Contador's lawyer, Andy Ramos, told The Associated Press on Tuesday a decision in cycling's biggest case could come 'any day' as the Spanish cycling federation's disciplinary committee determines whether Contador deserves a two-year ban after testing positive for clenbuterol.
The three-time Tour champion says he ingested the muscle-building, weight-loss drug inadvertently through contaminated meat.
Contador's lawyers are using several cases relating to other athletes to highlight that Contador did not voluntarily take the drug. Contador will also lose his Tour title if he is found guilty.
Gasquet avoided a lengthy ban last year after the French player proved he inadvertently ingested cocaine after kissing a woman at a nightclub.
'Not one of the scientists we have worked with has said it couldn't have been anything but contamination,' Ramos said in a telephone interview. 'The levels are ridiculous - it couldn't be anything else.'"

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alleged drug-trafficking offense whose goods were to be paid with counterfeit notes

Siete detenidos en Badajoz y Dos Hermanas por el tiroteo de Montequinto | Andalucía-Sevilla | elmundo.es: "National Police agents of the Seville town of Dos Hermanas, in collaboration with the Drug Unit and Organized Crime in Seville and the Provincial Criminal Investigation Brigade of Badajoz, have resulted in the arrest of seven youths investigations into the persecution that ended in gunfire on the 26th November in the streets of the town Nazarene Montequinto specifically.
As reported by the National Police on Friday, the first research to the conclusion that the incident took place following an alleged drug-trafficking offense whose goods were to be paid with counterfeit notes.
At first, efforts by police work led to the immediate arrest of MFA, 22 years old and owner of the drug substance covered by the sale and the owner of the vehicle he was driving DHR, 23.
Following investigations, it was possible to identify, locate and arrest last November 29, two other individuals involved in the incidents, one in the town of Montequinto, JMPP 29, and another youth arrested in the town of Badajoz Villar del Rey, identified as DPM, 28."

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