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Operation Malaya - Case Appeals in Malaga

The lawyers representing those charged in the Marbella Malaya corruption case have attacked the actions of Judge Torres, the first instruction judge in the case, and called for another investigation. The lawyers consider that the instruction of the case was rushed, and want more evidence to be found, criticising too what they claim were forced confessions.

The lawyer representing Juan Antonio Roca, the ex Marbella municipal real estate assessor, José Aníbal Álvarez, said that his client did absolutely nothing without the orders of the late Mayor, Jesús Gil y Gil, and it was Gil who drew up the controversial PGOU Urban Plan in Marbella.

‘It is claimed that Roca ran the Town Hall, but he was not a politician or a civil servant’, said the lawyer. ‘It was always Gil’.

It was the first defence of the lawyers who were in the reformed court at the Malaga Justice City on Monday as the first of 62 appeals were heard ahead of the opening of the oral hearings.