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Juan Antonio Roca is sent back to prison
By h.b. - Apr 23, 2008 - 5:23 PM
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Juan Antonio Roca (left), arriving at the National Court today with his lawyer, José Aníbal Alvarez - Photo EFE
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The National Court judge, Pablo Ruiz, has increased his bail in the Saqueo 1 case from 450,000 Euro which Roca had already paid, to three million Euro.
The bail conditions against Juan Antonio Roca, the ex Marbella Municipal real estate assessor in the case known as ‘Saqueo 1’ have been increased today to three million €. The Roca family had already paid the lower level of bail, set at 450,000 € in the case, but today Roca finds himself sent to prison again, with bail now set at 3 million €.
This is separate from the 1 million € which it took his family 17 days to raise in the Malaya case.

The Saqueo 1 case is also known as the 'false facturas' case and is linked to the alleged diversion of public funds from Marbella Town Hall to private companies between 1991 and 1995 amounting to 27.6 million €. The late Mayor Jesús Gil and six others were charged in the case, where Roca is accused of money laundering, defrauding Hacienda, bribery, the alteration of prices in public auctions and tenders, the misuse of public funds and even a charge against damaging flora and fauna, amongst others.

Today the National Court judge, Pablo Ruiz, accepted an appeal presented to him from the legal department of Marbella Town Hall which said they feared that Roca was a flight risk. The Town Hall say that it is ‘curious’ that the Roca family could find such amounts of money as had paid, 1, 450,000 € despite having all his assets supposedly frozen in the Malaya case.

Roca’s defence team said they did not understand why their client was seeing his bail conditions revised, considering that Roca’s circumstances had not changed.

His return to prison brings a rapid end to his week of freedom on bail during which time he made many claims to the press, including one of innocence.


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