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FREE COPY THE NEWSPAPER FOR SOUTHERN SPAIN Five games, five defeats for Official market leader Audited by PGD/OJD lacklustre Malaga September 22nd to 28th 2017 www.surinenglish.com A new low for the Blue and Whites who hit rock News 2 What To Do 46 bottom of the table after a Comment 24 My Home 51 Lifestyle 26 Sport 56 torrid week P60&61 Food & Drink 36 Classified 62 in English Health & Beauty 38 Pastimes 70 Fugitive Marbella Tension in Catalonia as Guardia councillor arrested in Civil raid government offices Argentina after 11 years on the run Fourteen officials and business owners Spanish authorities have taken fur- officers seized 10 million voting slips Carlos Fernández, who ther steps this week to stop the and arrested several regional gov- awaits an extradition were arrested over organisation of banned independence referendum ernment chiefs and business peo- being planned by the Catalonian re- ple. The interventions sparked an decision in prison, independence referendum gional government. On Wednesday, immediate wave of demonstrations escaped arrest in the following court orders, Guardia Civil across Barcelona. P22&23 Malaya inquiry P2&3 :: SUR Andalucía inheritance tax finally reduced following public pressure - now sums inherited up to a million euros will be tax-free P5 Fashion takes over Malaga city centre as models strut their stuff down the longest catwalk in Europe P26&27 Compensation for 80 per cent of flight delays and cancellations goes unclaimed, warns Pro-independence protesters outside the CUP party headquarters raided on Wednesday. :: REUTERS consumer group P6 British children among injured in hotel gas leak in Cantabria although holidaying pensioners from Malaga are in a more serious condition P21 Junta’s coastal protection plan declared void by regional court, opening the way for possible building on Costa’s as-yet unspoiled beaches P14 22222222 September 22nd to 28th 2017 NEWS SUR IN ENGLISH Former Marbella councillor and Malaya fugitive arrested in Argentina Carlos Fernández, who the initial investigation for him to return to Spain without having to escaped arrest in go to prison. 2006 during the After his arrest his defence law- yers said that he had turned himself Marbella corruption in, although the Argentinian Fed- investigation, is in eral Police denied this, saying that they had had Fernández under sur- prison while the veillance for a week up to his arrest. authorities decide on This discrepancy appears to have been explained by the version given his extradition by Fernández’s brother and lawyer in an interview this week with SUR. :: HÉCTOR BARBOTTA / JUAN He said that the arrest was all part CANO of a strategy to end his eleven years MARBELLA / MALAGA. More on the run. than ten years after the Malaya cor- According to Antonio Fernández, ruption scandal broke out in Mar- the Argentinian police had been bella, the last fugitive Carlos Fernán- tipped off to force the arrest which dez has been located and arrested now means that the Spanish courts in Argentina. have to provide information as to The former councillor was de- whether his brother can still be prose- tained in the early hours of last Fri- cuted after all this time. day at his home in Rivadavia, a small Based on the information provided town in the province of San Juan, by the Spanish authorities, the Ar- near the Chilean border. gentinian judge in charge of the case Fernández, who had been a Mar- now has a month to respond to Spain’s bella councillor for the GIL group calls for extradition. Meanwhile then mayor, Marisol Yagüe, and dep- before switching to the Andalusian Fernández is being held in Chimbas uty mayor, Isabel García Marcos, party PA, had married and formed a prison in the province of San Juan. among others. Fernández had married He was suspected of family in Argentina. Fernández was suspected of dis- The arrest came after Fernández’s Camino de Santiago tributing cash handouts, received by and formed a family distributing cash defence lawyers had written to the Carlos Fernández had been on the Roca in the form of bribes from busi- with a journalist and handouts in Marbella in Spanish courts asking them to de- run since June 2006, when he escaped ness owners, along with Yagüe and former model in the form of bribes to clare that the statute of limitations a second roundup of suspects in the García Marcos. Both were found for the offences he was wanted for massive local corruption scandal guilty and sentenced to three and a Argentina business owners in 2006, including embezzlement known as Malaya. half years in prison. It can be assumed and accepting bribes, had expired. The first raids in March that year that Fernández would have faced a In other words, they believe that le- had seen the arrests of the Malaga similar penalty. gally enough time has gone by since ringleader Juan Antonio Roca, the However he was never arrested. September 22nd to 28th 2017 3 SUR IN ENGLISH NEWS Brother and lawyer claims that his arrest is all part of a strategy Antonio Fernández has told SUR that he has no doubt that his brother can no longer be prosecuted or sent to prison in Spain for the offences he was wanted for 11 years ago :: HÉCTOR BARBOTTA MARBELLA. Carlos Fernández’s brother Antonio is also one of his lawyers. He told SUR this week that the arrest of the former Mar- bella councillor in Argentina is all part of a strategy designed to bring an end to his 11 years on the run. The lawyer maintains that in all of the cases involving his brother, the statute of limitations has ex- pired and so he can no longer be prosecuted or ordered to serve a prison sentence. He said that difficulties in ob- taining information from the courts to confirm this, or even to confirm Antonio Fernández, during the interview on Wednesday. :: J-L how many cases against him are currently in the courts, is what led to their decision to provoke Fernán- dez’s arrest and extradition. When does a case the period starts from the mo- “I spoke to Carlos and told him ment when the process against that we would have to force the expire? the former councillor was in- In custody. Carlos Fernández was 0arrested last week at his extradition mechanism. By forc- terrupted when a warrant for home in Argentina. Right, escorted by Argentinian police. ing extradition we will know all of Spanish law states that statute his location and arrest was is- :: SUR the cases he has pending,” he said. of limitations for the type of sued, that is, on 30 June 2006. Apart from the Malaya investi- crime Fernández is accused of The other interpretation is that gation, another corruption case (embezzlement, bribery, etc.) the case was still active until Saqueo II and a conviction in a pre- expires ten years from the mo- the moment that Fernández When police found him not at home, always denied this. vious case regarding the San Pedro ment the case is no longer ac- was declared ‘en rebeldía’ due he told them he was walking on the Some time after his arrival in San football club, the lawyer believes tive. There are different inter- to his absence at the trial. That Camino de Santiago. He was in- Juan, Fernández met the Argentin- there are other accusations in the pretations as to when the clock did not occur until May 2010 structed to turn himself in to the ian former model and journalist Carla courts, but that all of them are too starts ticking. One states that when the hearing began. nearest police station, but never did. Coppari, whom he married. His wife old for any further action to be Apart from being wanted in the has said that Fernández’s mother taken. Malaya investigation, Fernández flew to Argentina with his birth radio in the car,” said Fernández. be arrested sooner or later after the had already been sentenced to certificate so they could be mar- Decision to run According to the lawyer it was Argentinian police had been given two and a half years in prison ried legally. The couple have Antonio Fernández told SUR about when he heard that two other for- information of the presence of a for embezzlement in a pre- two children, who have the day in 2006 when his brother, mer councillors he was close to had fugitive wanted by Interpol. This vious case and he featured as Fernández as their surname. who maintains his innocence been sent to prison that he decided had, he said, been going on since a suspect in a third investiga- His wife also said that he “100%” decided to flee across the to run. “My brother knew they April. tion apart from Malaya. had not undergone plastic ocean instead of turning himself were innocent and when they went When asked why his brother The apparent inability of surgery to change his ap- in to the authorities. to prison it activated a human re- doesn’t just carry on living his life the authorities to track him Carlos pearance as reports in the “We were on the Camino de San- flex mechanism to avoid capture. in Argentina as he was until now, Fernández, down has led to rumours before Malaya Argentinian press initially tiago when the police went to his To flee because it was the only Fernández said: that he was allowed to es- stated. house to arrest him on 27 June. thing to do.” “The time has come for him to cape by the Spanish authorities in For some years Fernández ran a They called him by phone and told regularise his situation.

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