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Antonio Rubio
Madrid .-Operation Malaya, which began last March with 28 detainees, has not yet finished.Now police are trying to know where the hundreds of millions of euros that got some of the main accused by the judge Miguel Angel Torres-Juan Antonio Roca, Olive Thomas, Carlos Sanchez, Andres Lietor and others-have been invested and where.The ICU (Central Intelligence Unit of the Police) and SEPBLAC (Executive Service of the Commission on Prevention of Money Laundering) have concluded that some of that money may already be in the Dominican Republic.
The police has prepared a report, which has had access to the world, dated September 15, 2006, which incorporates several companies linked to Carlos Sanchez, a teacher and partner of Juan Antonio Roca, and Andres Lietor 'van to carry out a major development project in Punta Perla (Dominican Republic). Specifically some 8,000 homes will be built until the end of 2009. Those companies are: Sungolf Real Estate Development, Ocean View Properties, Tropical Paradise and Manager of the Sea tourism.
In the same police document indicated that "some of the previous companies are also carrying out a development project of 395 houses in Estepona (Malaga). And specifically: "Speaking in this case Hallard Investiments Limited, a Gibraltar company owned by Ocean View Properties, as a marketing promotion."
The SEPBLAC, which agency is responsible for combating money laundering and which is composed of policemen, civil guards, inspectors of Finance and the Bank of Spain, has complemented the police report on the accused in Operation Malaya with another much more comprehensive , With five annexes, which analyzes companies, shareholders, percentages and capital movement. The report has also had access this newspaper.
The police investigations, judicial and SEPBLAC brought to Gibraltar as one of tax havens used by the accused in Operation Malaya to put their profits outside our country. Another of the conclusions he has reached that the police is an important part of the capital invested in the Dominican Republic has had to come to this country in cash, and suggest, as a collaborator necessary, perfectly organized an airlift between Spain and Caribbean islands.
Last July, before Carlos Sanchez was arrested and jailed by judge Miguel Angel Torres, the world found the teacher and godfather Juan Antonio Roca in Santo Domingo. Carlos Sanchez, who weighed on the location of an order by Judge Torres admitted to this newspaper that was conducting a series of investments in that Caribbean country along with Andres Lietor, his partner: 'Here I have houses, hotels and real estate businesses' .
Sanchez also confirmed that another of the accused in Operation Malaya, businessman Thomas Olivo, was making investments in the Dominican Republic. Rafael Gomez, better known in environments Cordoban by sandokan, also was another of the accused in the Malaya operation that had intentions to invest in the Caribbean island.
The Shield, a partner and conseguidor Carlos Sanchez in the Dominican Republic is Miguel Vargas Maldonado, former secretary of State for Works. Vargas Maldonado is postulated as the next candidate for president in elections in 2008 by the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD).
And the development project at Punta Perla, where 8,000 houses will be built, is funded and promoted by a number of societies where SEPBLAC has detected the presence of Carlos Sanchez, Andres Lietor and others.
In Tropical Paradise, a major investor of the project, with a capital of $ 90 million Dominicans (weights), since April 2005 listed companies and investors as CCF Investments, Greco Development Corporation, CCF21 Real Estate, Rivoire Carret and Spanish, Oncedisa, Andres Lietor, Carlos Sanchez and Ignacio Coronado.
All these listed companies with a 19.99% stake and are controlled, directly or indirectly, by the master Juan Antonio Roca and his partner Andrew Lietor. At present, Carlos Sanchez and Lietor prisoners are in jail Alhaurin de la Torre (Malaga) on the orders of Judge Miguel Angel Torres, who charged a crime of bribery and misappropriation of public funds.
It is the fact that society Oncedisa, as contained in the report SEPBLAC, has its head office in Bangkok, particularly in the Finca El Rio. In that farmhouse where he was held in December 2004, a game of poker with an amount of three million euros and where gestó denunciation against Juan Antonio Roca, a former adviser Urbana Marbella, and some of its partners .
The organizer of that poker game was precisely Carlos Sanchez, and attended Juan Antonio Roca, the wife of Sanchez, Rafael Gomez (sandokan), Francisco J. Pozuelo, the owner of an airline and travel agent and father-in-law of an important businessman and banker Spanish, among others. One of the players who was in line felt cheated and delató the police business irregular Rock.
Another of the shareholders involved in the project is Dominican Punta Perla Ignacio Coronado, with a 0.01% stake. Coronado is reported in Spain by the Inland Revenue for tax fraud amounting to 284,171 euros. At the beginning of last June, had not yet been submitted to testify because he was outside our country.
There is an annotation in Annex III of the report SEPBLAC, which appears under the title "information about others involved in the operation, which clearly mark the route that has followed most of the money that has come to the Dominican Republic.
Eslabón necessary
The SEPBLAC indicates that the company 'Punta Perla Caribbean Ltd. forwards more than U.S. $ 11,000,000 in Tropical Paradise ". Tropical Paradise is controlled directly by Carlos Sanchez and his Spanish partners. In the same report stresses that "this company has offices in Sean Ronald Woodhall (director).
And from that moment, Sean Woodhall appears and becomes the report SEPBLAC the necessary link between investors and Spanish projects Dominicans. The document puts Woodhall at Berkeley Property Investiments and as a beneficiary of the funds remitted by Sungolf Real Estate Development (another of the companies participating in the project at Punta Perla).
Members of the fight against money laundering in Spain set over and over again on their investigations and Sean Woodhall suggest that "with this name contains a person in the Central Register of Companies and has had positions in several Spanish companies. And also reflect a note last July: 'It collects information on a construction project in Punta Cana Punta conducted by Golf, Marina and Spa valued at $ 2.5 billion [$ 2,500 million] to be conducted Tropical Paradise by [company controlled by Carlos Sanchez]. At the reception hosted by this company to announce the project attended, among others, Sean Woodhall (president of WWD) and Leonel Fernández (president of Dominican Republic).
Officials SEPBLAC also put Sean Woodhall at Ocean View Properties of that society and say: 'It was announced as a company that specializes in investing in properties that are bought to rent them later. They offer real estate on the Costa del Sol and in the Dominican Republic. " Finally, the police report recalls that society Ocean View Properties, which contains Sean Ronald Woodhall, is responsible for marketing the promotion of 395 homes in Estepona.
The judge Miguel Angel Torres, the police have investigated and made possible the operation Malaya and agents SEPBLAC are already closer to the money they could take some of the defendants in this case.
The statues of minister
Miguel Vargas Maldonado, former secretary of State for Works of the Dominican Republic (equivalent to minister in Spain), frequently visited our country and his partner, Carlos Sanchez. In October 2004 Vargas Maldonado landfall again in Spain and was entertaining, so splendid, by Carlos Sanchez with a set of sculptures and statues whose value amounted to 46534.55 euros.
These gifts of Carlos Sanchez Vargas Maldonado were charged to the company JEASA.
The bill that order, which is held by the world, contained a pair of orange marble columns of 210 centimeters (9.648,88 euro), a dip of 200 centimeters long white (5.745,06 euro), A man practicing golf green brass (3.113,52 euros) and a pair of marble lions orange (7.861,88 euro), among others, as well as various sculptures in brass, bronze, marble and stone.
The bill, as the owner of JEASA, was never paid by Carlos Sanchez, nor Vargas Maldonado: "The case is reported, but we must remember that whoever makes the task is Carlos Sanchez."
The weekly digital Dominican 'Key' last day 12 revealed that Vargas and Sanchez shared an airplane Cessna 560 XL and a boat type schooner.
The 'Santa Fe', named after the sailboat tribute to the people in Granada where he was born Sanchez, is all wood and is 24 metres.
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