Archives for December 2010
December 27th, 2010
Officials at the UK Department for Work and Pensions will work with their counterparts in countries such as Spain where the most fraud is carried out by British benefit claimants. Top scams are said by the department to include claimants not informing the authorities that they have moved abroad, and those ...
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December 24th, 2010
The number of foreign visitors to Spain rose in November for the seventh straight month despite a drop in tourists from its main market Britain, government data showed yesterday. The country welcomed 2.9 million foreign tourists last month, a 2.7 percent increase over the same time last year, bringing total arrivals ...
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December 22nd, 2010
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 €200 million of cocaine into the UK from Peru. It has been revealed that the 62-year-old was
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December 22nd, 2010
The world's biggest lottery payout – Spain's €2.3bn Christmas El Gordo "Fat One" – sprayed money across the country today, with shares in the winning ticket reportedly spread through several towns and cities. The announcement of the winning number sparked celebrations in
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December 21st, 2010
Spain’s traditionally smoke-filled bars and restaurant interiors will soon be a thing of the past as the nation’s lower house approved a tough new anti-smoking laws that will rid the country of its reputation as one of Western Europe’s easiest places to light up. The bill, proposed by Prime Minister
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December 21st, 2010
Spain's central government budget deficit shrank by nearly half in the first eleven months of the year, providing further evidence the country's efforts to close one of the euro zone's biggest funding gaps is on track. "We will easily meet our deficit targets for 2010,"
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December 20th, 2010
All but one of the 35 objects stolen three weeks ago in one of Spain's biggest thefts of modern art have been recovered, police said today. The artworks, which included a drawing by Pablo Picasso and a dozen works by Chillida, were stolen from a transport lorry parked in a warehouse ...
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December 20th, 2010
The biggest gamblers in Spain, according to the amount spent per person on tickets for this year's 'El Gordo' lottery, live in La Rioja. Residents from the region have spent 101.24 euros each in a bid to win a part of the expected 2.35 billion euro prize fund. Castilla y Leon ...
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December 17th, 2010
Spanish authorities have arrested 25 people suspected of involvement in a 10 million euro fraud scheme targeting German owners of timeshare vacation property in the Canary Islands, police said today. The suspects contacted the timeshare owners, offered lucrative terms to buy their shares and lured the owners into paying what turned ...
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December 17th, 2010
Spain will ward off the worst of a European debt crisis without needing a rescue and there is no threat to the euro currency's existence, the head of the International Monetary Fund said yesterday. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, interviewed at a Thomson Reuters Newsmaker event, played down worries that Spain faced perils like ...
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