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22 Nov 2011

Delta Airlines to fly Málaga and Valencia to New York again next summer

 

Delta Airlines is to restart its direct flights from Málaga to New York this summer, with five flights a week in collaboration with Air France KLM from June 2. A Boeing 757-200 will fly the route, with space for 170 passengers. A similar aircraft will fly the route from Valencia to New York, also from June 2. The frequency of the flights there will be four times a week.

British suspect arrested in Valencia

 

59 year old was wanted in the UK in connection with contraband cigarettesA suspect in handcuffs - EFE archive A British man sought by the UK in connection with smuggling cigarettes worth 8.2 million € was arrested in Valencia on Monday and is to be transferred to the National Court for the extradition process. He was arrested on a European arrest warrant and had been wanted by the UK for 10 years. All that’s known on his identity is that he is 59 years old and appears on the Crime Stoppers’ list of the UK’s most wanted.

largest Apple Store in Spain is to be unveiled in Marbella this Friday

Marbella has been chosen as the location for the company's fourth store in Spain

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The largest Apple Store in Spain is to be unveiled in Marbella this Friday, November 25, in the centro comercial La Cañada.

It will be the company’s fourth store in Spain and, to celebrate its opening, free T-shirts will be given away to the first 1,000 visitors on inauguration day. Opening hours are 10am until 10pm, Mondays to Saturdays.

Plans for expansion include another new store in Murcia, although there has been no confirmation as yet of when it is likely to open.

Read more: http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_32758.shtml#ixzz1eRrLe85A

21 Nov 2011

Alice Walton, heiress to the Walmart supermarket fortune and the the 10th richest woman in the United States, opened a spectacular fine art museum in her home town

Moshe Safdie
Architect Moshe Safdie looks out of a window next to a large red untitled magnifying disk sculpture by artist Fred Eversley at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. Photograph: Danny Johnston/AP

When Alice Walton, heiress to the Walmart supermarket fortune and the the 10th richest woman in the United States, opened a spectacular fine art museum in her home town, she might have expected plaudits and gratitude. It hasn't quite worked out that way.

The long-awaited opening of the Crystal Bridges Museum for American Art in Walton's home town of Bentonville, Arkansas, has provoked mixed reactions. Some have celebrated the unveiling of a significant new private art institution, but many have criticised the decision to spend $1.4bn of company and family foundation money as the retail colossus cuts back its workers' benefits.

Protesters at the museum have informally joined forces with the Occupy Wall Street camps across the US and point to growing ties between the Occupy movement and established trade unions.

The museum, which opened last weekend and features a survey of American art from Benjamin West to Georgia O'Keefe, from Norman Rockwell to Andy Warhol, and from Joan Mitchell to Walton Ford, has also come under criticism from within the art establishment for both inflating values and buying masterpieces from impoverished art institutions without giving local institutions a chance to match Walton's offer.

While historians point out that this is little different from 19th-century robber barons such as Henry Clay Frick and Andrew Carnegie amassing vast collections of European art and bringing it to America, the prospect of hundreds of masterpieces in rural Bentonville, two hours' drive from Tulsa, is still controversial.

Walton, at 62 the youngest of Walmart founder Sam Walton's four children, started buying specifically for the project in 2005. The Moshe Safdie-designed institution, which sits in 120 acres of dogwood trees and trails minutes from downtown Bentonville, already has 440 works on display and 800 in storage.

"We set market records for very few pieces that we purchased," says curator, David Houston. "But there is latent criticism from an east coast elite that bringing a famous painting like Thomas Eakins's [$68m] Gross Clinic to Arkansas is itself an act of cultural vandalism. We're bringing art to the public, but it's a different kind of public, and there are social and political connotations to that."

In the week since Crystal Bridges opened, it has already seen 5,000 registered visitors. "Sheer curiosity and hunger for an institution like this bears out Alice Walton's vision," Houston says.

Ben Waxman, spokesman for the union-affiliated Making Change@Walmart, said: "Opening a huge, opulent museum in the middle of nowhere while the company is cutting health insurance for its employees is troubling. It sends the message Wal-Mart doesn't care about them."

The issues of wealth distribution that have brought art into conflict with the labour movement at Crystal Bridges have also been on display at Sotheby's during the billion-dollar modern, impressionist and contemporary sales earlier this month in New York.

Since August, when Sotheby's dismissed 43 unionised art handlers, its salesrooms have been besieged by Teamsters union members, bearing an inflatable rat and a fat cat banker with a cigar in one hand and throttled worker in the other. "The company is having its most profitable year in 267 years and they locked us out in the middle of our contract," said Teamsters member Phil Cortero. "Sotheby's represents the richest people in the world. When you lose your shirt down on Wall Street you come and hock your stuff here."

Increasingly, the Teamsters are joined by Occupy Museum activists, chanting "We are the 99%!" They protest that the multimillion dollar art handled by auction houses is used to maintain and transfer the wealth of the 1%.

Outside Christie's, which is not involved in the dispute, Los Angeles property developer Eli Broad, one of America's wealthiest men, confirmed as much to the New York Times. "People would rather have art than gold or paper," he said.

OWS Labor Outreach member Mike Friedman said that Occupy had no problem with the art itself. "But at a time when we're seeing cutbacks in health and education spending, we're seeing the transfer of wealth by way of tax cuts and subsidies to an elite who use excesses of that transfer to buy these magnificent works of art."

With the end of the Zuccotti Park sit-in, Occupy says it plans to initiate focused protests against cultural institutions associated with big Wall Street donors. It has singled out Lincoln Center, home to the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera and New York fashion week, which is financially supported by Tea Party funder David Koch.

Back at Crystal Bridges, Houston argues that it will take years to see the full effect of how the Walton family has used its wealth. The family foundation is active in a whole variety of charitable activities, many of them educational, he says. "Their intent is not to create a shrine to an individual or even a family. Their goal is to create a tremendous cultural resource in this part of the world."

20 Nov 2011

SPAIN appeared the latest country at the centre of the escalating eurozone crisis

 

SPAIN appeared the latest country at the centre of the escalating eurozone crisis yesterday as David Cameron failed to persuade European leaders to back his calls for action. After a meeting with the Prime Minister in Berlin yesterday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned it was important not “to pretend to have powers that we don’t have”. But within hours the new governor of the European Central Bank (ECB) Mario Draghi said “urgent action” was necessary from Europe’s leaders to implement the new eurozone bailout fund.

WOMAN who died from a brain haemorrhage at Marbella’s Costa del Sol Hospital may have been a victim of medical negligence.

 

WOMAN who died from a brain haemorrhage at Marbella’s Costa del Sol Hospital may have been a victim of medical negligence. The 30-year-old had visited several health centres complaining of headaches – but was each time diagnosed with migraines. Although medical reports show the woman had an X-ray and electrocardiogram, neither the woman nor her family had seen the results. An investigation is now underway.

65-YEAR-OLD British man was stabbed in the neck during an argument over a debt

 

65-YEAR-OLD British man was stabbed in the neck during an argument over a debt at a bus stop on the A-387 road in Mijas, according to Spanish Press reports. The attacker, a Spanish man to whom he allegedly owed money for some building work, handed himself in to the Guardia Civil. He claimed he had stabbed the victim with a screwdriver, but doctors said the injuries were caused with a knife. Witnesses who saw the victim was bleeding called the emergency services and an ambulance was sent to the scene as well as the Guardia Civil. The victim, who was taken to the Costa del Sol Hospital in Marbella, also sustained injuries to his arms. Although his condition was reported to be serious, the Guardia Civil informed that the injuries were not life-threatening.

19 Nov 2011

The Spanish Police have accused Fat Freddie of participating in a criminal organisation, the illegal transportation of drugs and the illicit trafficking of weapons.

Freddie's brother Ritchie parties for Hallowe'en despite threats to his life

 

FEELING BLUE: Ritchie Thompson dressed up as character from film Avatar

 

FEELING BLUE: Ritchie Thompson dressed up as character from film Avatar 

THIS is 'Fat' Freddie Thompson's brother, Ritchie, enjoying Hallowe'en despite the fact that his life is in real danger from rival mobsters. These exclusive Sunday World photos show 34-year-old Thompson posing with his wife Catherine while dressed as a character from the hit movie 'Avatar'.  

 

While Ritchie laughs and jokes for the cameras, he is aware that the gang led by criminal Gerard Eglington is planning to target him while Freddie is stuck in Spain after being extradited. Although Fat Freddie was released from custody this week by a Spanish judge, he has had to hand over his passport which means he is unable to travel back to Ireland to help protect his older brother.  

Ritchie needs all the help he can get, after he was targeted by Eglington's mob last March and had his leg broken after an unprovoked assault in the Karma Stone pub on Camden Street in Dublin.  

Innocent

 

AVATARS: Ritchie and Catherine

 

AVATARS: Ritchie and Catherine

Catherine, who is totally innocent and has no involvement in crime, was viciously slashed in the same incident and required 17 stitches. When Freddie heard about the attack and his mother's home was firebombed, he went ballistic and returned to Dublin's south-inner city swearing revenge on Eglington and his cronies. Eglington has since escaped three murder bids and has kept a low profile for the last few months while Freddie was back in town.

 

However, now that Thompson is stuck in Spain for the short term, the Eglington gang has regrouped and set their sights on Ritchie, who is regarded as being especially vulnerable to attack. Ritchie was arrested last month in connection with a brutal assault on the innocent mother of hitman Wayne McNally, an attack that was frowned upon in gangland where attacking criminals' families is regarded as a no-no. Gardai fear it is only a matter of time before Ritchie Thompson's rivals catch up with him and are extremely concerned for his well-being and have increased patrols near his home.

Meanwhile, Fat Freddie is relaxing in Marbella after being released from custody, having only been quizzed for a matter of hours following his extradition last week, as predicted by the Sunday World. He was quizzed by a magistrate about his part in Christy Kinihan's huge drugs gang, although the evidence offered by the Spanish authorities was very flimsy.

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EXTRADITED: ‘Fat’ Freddie Thompson is led away

 

EXTRADITED: ‘Fat’ Freddie Thompson is led away

He was given bail on Monday but must stay in Spain and sign on with cops twice a month. It is believed that Thompson is staying with his cousin, Liam Byrne, in a luxury villa in Estepona and is already masterminding the importation of drugs shipments back to Ireland. Gardai believe that one of Freddie's right-hand men, the on-the-run criminal Eugene 'The Devil' Cullen, travelled to Spain last week and met with his boss to discuss the gang's finances.

 

The Spanish have accused Fat Freddie of participating in a criminal organisation, the illegal transportation of drugs and the illicit trafficking of weapons. However, despite the seriousness of the charges, the maximum sentence that the mobster is facing is just nine years in prison.

The Spanish authorities have not provided any direct evidence to back-up assertions that Thompson is a key member of the Kinihan gang. They claim that he is a "trusted right-hand man" of Kinihan and acted as his bodyguard and chauffeur and was a key player in the organisation. They accuse him of drug and gun trafficking but the only evidence they cite is a vague recorded conversation between Thompson and criminal Gary Hutch about a gun not being as "big as expected" and the Spanish say it is possible to "infer" from this that Fat Freddie is responsible for sourcing the gang's firearms.

There is considerable tension between the Kinihan mob and Fat Freddie amid accusations that someone in the gang is touting to cops.

Puerto Banus, Marbella


Plenty of Brits retire to the golden sands of Marbella and Puerto Banus’s famous harbour is filled will supercars, parked up while their owners enjoy the restaurants and bars.

But one expat, who lived in Marbella for more than seven years and wishes to remain anonymous, says the area definitely deserves its nickname as the Costa del Crime, among civilians and authority: “One of my clients had a rather nice black BMW X5 giving the air of someone with perhaps a bit of wealth,” she said. “Police did a daytime 'routine' stop and check just at the back of Puerto Banús.

“Working as a pair they went through his papers then asked him to step out of the car whilst one put him through some, to be quite frank, embarrassing and unnecessary exercises to prove he wasn’t drunk. They let him go without charge, he reached for his mobile to call a mate and say what idiots the cops had been and - bingo - it was gone, a nice expensive smart phone vanished.

“Seems one had kept him occupied whilst the other rifled through the car. He drove back to confront the police, but guess what? Their 'routine' stop and check point had gone in a flash… You can’t report that crime can you!”

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi after his capture, his fingers wrapped in bandages and his legs covered with a blanket

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Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the fugitive son of Libya's deceased former dictator, has been arrested in southern Libya, according to officials from the country's new government.

Libyan state TV reported that Saif has arrived in captivity and unhurt at an army base in the town of Zintan, 90 miles south-west of Tripoli.

Muammar Gaddafi's second and highest-profile son was captured along with several bodyguards by fighters near the town of Obari in Libya's southern desert, said the interim justice minister and other officials.

Saif was said to be in good health, according to the justice minister Mohammed al-Alagi.

"We have arrested Saif al-Islam Gaddafi in [the] Obari area," the minister told Reuters.

Saif was captured near the southern city of Sabha with two aides trying to smuggle him out to neighbouring Niger, militia commander Bashir al-Tayeleb said.

Zintan, a base for forces in the Nafusa Mountains which played a key part in the storming of Tripoli in the summer, is reported to have crowds dancing in the streets and waving the Libyan flag.

There are reports that an angry mob tried to storm the plane on which Saif was taken to the western mountain town of Zintan, the home of one of the largest revolutionary brigades in Libya.

Gunfire is echoing across the capital, Tripoli, where large crowds have gathered in Martyrs' Square firing volleys of automatic fire in the air. "A great day, a great day," said Abdullah, a taxi driver, stuck in one of the traffic jams that built up around the square.

A Reuters reporter said a man who appeared to be Saif, but who refused to confirm his identity, was on a plane flown by militiamen to the town.

The man wore traditional robes with a scarf pulled over his face, but his features, visible despite a heavy black beard, as well as his rimless spectacles, conformed to pictures of the 39-year-old younger Gaddafi.

The man's thumb, index finger and another finger were heavily bandaged.

Libyan TV also showed him He is sitting by a bed and holding up three bandaged fingers as a guard looks on.

7 Nov 2011

High speed train comes to Ronda

 

THE AVE is coming to Ronda. This means significantly reduced journey times to Madrid, Granada, Cordoba, Málaga and beyond. The project also includes completing the upgrade of the line from Ronda down to Algeciras to allow for the faster trains. The announcement was made on Friday, 4 November, via a BOE, Boletín Oficial del Estado. According to this document there will be 64.4 kms. of double track electrified line of the European gauge between the existing AVE-station at Antequera-Santa Ana and La Indiana, the old station on the outskirts of Ronda where the new AVE station for Ronda will be built. The project has a budget of 711.47 million euros and will follow the route of the current single track line between Bobadilla and Ronda. However, according to the website ferropedia.es the line will take a direct route from Setenil de las Bodegas to La Indiana, cutting out the S-loop which takes in Arriate and Ronda, and will cut through virgin countryside. The proposals are now out to public consultation and the plans can be viewed at the Town Halls in Antequera, Campillos, Teba, Cañete la Real, Almargen, Ronda, Arriate, Olvera, Alcalá y Setenil de las Bodegas, as well as in Málaga City, Cádiz and Madrid. I understand from an unnamed source that work will not commence until 2014. So peace and quiet for three more years before more new sounds are added to the local cacophony where we live. However, ignoring any NIMBY tendencies, a high speed rail link from Ronda into the rest of the AVE-network can only be a good thing for the area. With journey times to major cities cut dramatically, it can only improve the economic prospects of the area, both in terms of tourism and commerce. Real estate values in the area around La Indiana are likely to rocket as people realise it’s possible to commute from the rural idyll that is the Serranía de Ronda to Madrid and the other major cities to the north.

6 Nov 2011

Work to build the new terminal on the Gibraltar side of the border is practically complete

The joint use of the airport was agreed back in 2006

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The Gibraltar Government has met its obligations under the Tripartite Agreement made with the UK and Spain in Córdoba in September 2006 regarding joint use of the airport.

Work to build the new terminal on the Gibraltar side of the border is practically complete with just a freight warehouse still under construction along with facilities for private planes.

But on the Spanish side there is still a lack of agreement between AENA, the Spanish Airports Authority, and the La Línea de la Concepción Town Hall on the concession of the land which will allow the construction of the Spanish terminal. 

The Gibraltar side has spent 67 million € according to El País which notes the budget for the Spanish side is just seven million.

Gibraltar First Minister, Peter Caruana, has said there will be a gradual move to the new facilities this month.

The Spanish side is awaiting a deal for the re-establishment of flights to Madrid, or even other Spanish airports. Caruana considers that new airlines and flights will be established when the facilities are completed, and the tunnel being built under the runway is completed so traffic no longer will have to be stopped for every take off or landing.

La Linea says they want to start building as soon as possible, with plans for a three story terminal over 2,000 m2, with parking for between 300 and 400 cars. The Town Hall plans to run the car park to generate income as part of the deal with AENA. Once that deal is agreed, it’s hoped in a few days, construction will take about 12 months, and only when completed will Spain have complied with the agreement made in Córdoba back in 2006.


Too many of our gangland criminals are sitting in places like Marbella and Amsterdam, leading the rich life.

 

Too many of our gangland criminals are sitting in places like Marbella and Amsterdam, leading the rich life. An initiative I instigated at European level is to try and ensure the CAB model is replicated in every European country so we have a framework in place," he said. "Those engaged in gangland in Ireland who have used their assets to acquire properties abroad will discover there's no hiding place. We'll have sister organisations in every EU country who we can rely on to secure the assets of those who have gained from their criminality." And he pledged to continue to support the work of the Garda in continuing to tackle criminals who have ruined so many lives. COMPLACENT "They have no respect for human life and that lack of respect extends to the products they sell -- the drugs they bring to the street are destroying lives in our cities and towns," he continued. "They have done it over the decades, they continue to do it and they have no concern for the lives they're destroying. "It's my job to ensure that An Garda Siochana have the resources and the support from all political parties on all levels in the work they do." He was speaking at the launch of Paul Williams' new book Badfellas which was launched at the Harcourt Hotel last night. But he said he could "never be complacent" about the fight against organised criminality. "Unfortunately as one gang disappears and a group is sentenced to long terms of imprisonment, there always seems to be another group to fill their space," he added.

National Police agents have broken up an organization dedicated to the sexual exploitation of Nigerian women in Almeria

 

National Police agents have broken up an organization dedicated to the sexual exploitation of Nigerian women in Almeria. Girls were forced into prostitution by threats, which included alleged practices of voodoo or abduction of family members. Ten people have been arrested in the Andalusian village of Roquetas de Mar in a raid in which seizures also included 20,000 euros in cash, a large number of passports of women from sub-Saharan origin and documentation relating to their criminal activity on the site of the Yegua Verde. The investigation began in late 2010 when police discovered the existence of a group of victims who had all been sexually exploited by the organization. The network, now dismantled, had been bringing women from Nigeria since 2005 and then the introducing them illegally into Spain before forcing them into prostitution. The organization, members of which were all Nigerian nationals, recruited women in various towns in Nigeria. The recruitment was carried out by relatives of the leaders of the organization. They also formed an association to attract women, called "The Nigerian Women’s Progressive Movement", through which they had even applied for grants from the Junta de Andalucía, although this was not granted. The women arrived in Spain by boat having spent many days walking through African deserts.  The victims were transported by land with false documents from Nigeria to Morocco, crossing through many other African countries such as Benin, Niger, Mali and Algeria. Once on the Moroccan coast, the organization made contact with citizens of Morocco, who in exchange for large sums of money, provided them with places on a boat which made the journey across to the peninsula. During this journey which could often last several months, the girls suffered numerous tragedies. After crossing the strait, and once in Spain, the network took many of the victims to Roquetas de Mar (Almería) where they were forced into prostitution with constant beatings and threats. Among the forms used by the criminals to coerce the women were included alleged practices of voodoo by which method they were made toto submit their will to the control of the organization. They were also threatened with the kidnap of their families in Spain and Nigeria. Debts of up to 50,000 euros The women were forced to work for more than two years until they eventually obtained freedom having paid of debt which could easily amount to 50,000 euros, although, depending on how the victims might behave they would often find the cost of their living expenses, clothing or other support dramatically increased. As a result of painstaking research, carried out by a National Police operation in Roquetas de Mar ten members of the network, six men and four women, have now been arrested and charged. In addition, agents found four homes and a brothel located in the Paraje de la Yegua Verde where they also found involved 20,000 euros in cash, numerous sub-Saharan women's passports, a large amount of documentation relating to the sexual exploitation of the women and various instruments of voodoo. The Police were assisted in their investigation by members of the Central UCRIF led by the Commissioner General of Immigration and Borders at the Provincial Police Station UCRIF Almeria.

2 Nov 2011

Hugh Grant is the delighted father of a baby girl. He and the mother had a fleeting affair and while this was not planned, Hugh could not be happier or more supportive

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British actor Hugh Grant has become a father for the first time at the age of 51. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP

Film star turned anti-hacking activist Hugh Grant has become a parent for the first time at the age of 51.

The actor – best known for roles in Four Weddings and a Funeral and Bridget Jones's Diary – became father to a baby girl earlier this month.

The identity of the mother has not been revealed but a spokeswoman for the actor said they were on good terms.

She added: "I can confirm that Hugh Grant is the delighted father of a baby girl. He and the mother had a fleeting affair and while this was not planned, Hugh could not be happier or more supportive. He and the mother have discussed everything and are on very friendly terms."

Grant has had several high-profile previous relationships, including with Elizabeth Hurley and socialite Jemima Khan, from whom he split in 2007.

The actor has kept a low profile on the big screen in recent years. His last role was alongside Sarah Jessica Parker in 2009's Did You Hear About the Morgans? and his next project is to voice the role of a captain in animated film The Pirates!, due for release in spring.

Grant, who suspected that his own phone had been hacked, recently emerged as the unofficial spokesman for victims of phone hacking at the News of the World after railing against politicians for failing to curb the power of Rupert Murdoch. He wrote a New Statesman article after secretly recording a conversation with a former News of the World reporter, Paul McMullan, in which he alleged that ex-editor Rebekah Brooks knew about hacking at the paper.

Taking a shot … Roger Moore, shown here in 1984 Bond film A View to a Kill, was less than impressed by Quantum of Solace

Roger Moore
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Former James Bond actor Sir Roger Moore has described the franchise's most recent outing, Quantum of Solace, as "a long, disjointed commercial".

 

The 84-year-old actor, who played 007 for 12 years between 1973 and 1985, was speaking to a reporter from Cambridge University's Varsity newspaper when he criticised the film, which was released in 2008 and starred Daniel Craig. Moore, who praised Craig's interpretation of Ian Fleming's secret agent despite disliking the film, also passed comment on another Bond - his own predecessor, Sean Connery. "Sean is a good actor," said Moore. "It's a pity I can't understand what he's saying."

 

Moore, known for his wry sense of humour, rounded off the interview by revealing that his favourite contemporary actor is Johnny Depp. "I wish he would change his name to something I can remember," he quipped.

 

The actor also identified his favourite Bond girl – his wife, Danish-Swedish multi-millionaire Kristina Tholstrup. He was visiting the university to give a speech at the student union, where he introduced himself as "Moore, Roger Moore".

 

Meanwhile, Daniel Craig will return as 007 in a new James Bond film, rumoured to be titled Skyfall, which will arrive in cinemas next year. Javier Bardem, Ralph Fiennes and Naomie Harris have all been linked with the film, which will be helmed by American Beauty director Sam Mendes. Official confirmation of the film's details will be announced at a press conference in London tomorrow

1 Nov 2011

Gangster suspect Freddie is bailed in Spain

 

SUSPECTED gangland boss 'Fat' Freddie Thompson is enjoying the Spanish sunshine after being freed on bail following a brief court appearance. Mr Thompson (30) was allowed to leave a Costa del Sol court a free man yesterday after more than a fortnight in jail in Ireland and Spain. He was told he was suspected of offences including drugs trafficking, money laundering and unlawful assembly, at the private court hearing in Estepona near Marbella. But he was spared more prison time after agreeing to bail conditions including the surrender of his passport and a ban on leaving Spain. Accomplices He has also been ordered to sign on at the court twice a month -- a requirement likely to bring him into contact with alleged accomplices John Cunningham and Christy Kinahan's sons Daniel and Christopher. Suspected gang boss Christy is in jail in Belgium after being extradited there in August. Mr Thompson's bail address has not been made public. A court source confirmed yesterday: "Frederick Thompson has been released on bail. "He has been informed he is under investigation for crimes including money laundering, unlawful assembly and drugs trafficking. Court "The three conditions of his bail are that he cannot leave Spain, hands in his passport to the authorities and signs on at court twice a month on days fixed by the court." Mr Thompson consented to extradition after being arrested in Dublin on a European arrest warrant on October 14. He spent 13 days in Cloverhill Prison before being flown to Spain last Friday. He is thought to have spent the weekend in prisons in Madrid and Alhaurin de la Torre near Malaga. He is said to be facing nine years in prison in Spain if convicted. Under Spanish law, he has not been officially charged with any crimes.

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