
The Lithuanian mafia emerges as the surprise player on Spain’s organised-crime-ridden Costa del Sol
One of the coast's most lucrative and most violent networks was Lithuanian, run from a Marbella mansion by a man who could not walk.
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One of the coast's most lucrative and most violent networks was Lithuanian, run from a Marbella mansion by a man who could not walk.

A BRITISH couple accused of the attempted botched kidnapping of a woman in Mallorca will be hauled before court this week.

THE 39-metre vessel sits at an average depth of just six metres, with its structure and its cargo are preserved, thought to have sunk in 1887.

Bookings for September, October and November show German travellers will make up 26.95% of the rural tourism market.

POLICE officers gained entry to the house and confirmed the man died after reportedly suffering a fall and hitting his head.

THE diplodocus discovery - a dinosaur that could reach 33 metres in length - was made at the La Tejería site in El Castellar, Teurel.

NEW consul Marylee Wall explained at the launch of the consulate that Spain received more than three million visits from Ireland in 2025.

EXTRA flights from Madrid, Barcelona, Palma and Malaga alone would add as much CO2 as Portugal emits in a year

THIS summer’s outbreak of West Nile virus in Andalucia has claimed its third victim after a patient infected with the disease died in Sevilla.

CONSUMERS in Spain have been dealt a blow after the rate of inflation soared to its highest level in more than three years last month.

THE man, aged in his 40s, was shot in the chest in Zalea, a hamlet in the municipality of Pizarra, Malaga on Monday afternoon.

THE pair, both under the age of 17, were detained by the Policia Nacional following the knife attack on Sunday.

BRITISH rock superstars Oasis will return to Spain for the first time in 18 years after confirming the second leg of their smash hit reunion tour.

THE pair will meet in New York on September 23 to participate in a panel debate titled 'Building an Economy for the Majority'.

A SPANISH university student has been stabbed to death in Mexico barely a month into an exchange programme.