Was the theft of millions of Iraqui Dinars behind arrest of Almerias government lawyer?

A report – rumour?- has surfaced suggesting that the reason behind the sudden arrest of the government’s legal counsel for Almeria, Demetrio Carmona, was because he had come across -and pinched- millions of Iraqui Dinars seized by the State in the first Iraq war, held in a storeroom in El Ejido and forgotten about. Demetrio was arrested last week in a central government sweep, accused of a “mega scam”, along with at least six prominent Continue reading Was the theft of millions of Iraqui Dinars behind arrest of Almerias government lawyer?

State legal counsel for Almeria arrested for “mega scam”

The man who was until January the chief legal counsel for the State in Almería, Demetrio Carmona, has been arrested by the Guardia Civil, along with six other “officials”, for alledged participation in a “mega scam”, according to local news. It seems that the respected lawyer, who had been a state lawyer for 25 years until being placed on indefinate leave in January, was arrested yesterday on the orders of a Judge. The investigation is under Continue reading State legal counsel for Almeria arrested for “mega scam”