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Two Czech hitmen arrested in the Polop mayor shooting
By h.b. - Nov 21, 2009 - 11:49 AM
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Alejandro Ponsoda - EFE archive
Alejandro Ponsoda was shot outside his home in October 2007
The Guardia Civil on Friday arrested the two alleged Czech hit men who are accused of killing the Mayor of Polop, Alejandro Ponsoda, outside his home on the night of October 19 2007.
It takes the number of people arrested in the case to five, three of whom have already been sent to prison on remand by the judge.
The two alleged hitmen were arrested in Benidorm and La Cala de Finestrat, and had been linked to one of those detained, Raúl Montero Trevejo who already has drug trafficking charges against him.
It’s thought the group planned the crime in a meeting held in an alternative nightclub, and that the murder was carried out following the Mayor’s failure to support a real estate project.