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The judiciary continues to investigate the source of the bail money found by Juan Antonio Roca
By h.b. - Apr 25, 2008 - 7:16 PM
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Juan Antonio Roca (left) with his lawyer, José Anibal Álvarez, before the National Court hearing which increased his bail on Wednesday - Photo EFE
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The ex Municipal Real Estate Assessor is now back in jail with increased bail of three million Euro imposed against him in the Saqueo 1 case.
Although he is back in prison as a result of the increase in the bail money demanded by National Court Judge, Pablo Ruz, in the Saqueo 1 case, the judiciary continues to investigate how Juan Antonio Roca and his family had assembled 1,450,000 € bail money needed between that case and the Malaya case to fund his freedom from jail. Eyebrows were raised given that the instruction judge in the Malaya case had ordered that all the ex municipal real estate assessor’s assets be frozen.

The family say that the new bail amount of 3 million € in the Saqueo 1 case is ridiculous and it is impossible for them to raise such an amount. Roca found the original 450,000 € bail in the case back in April 2002.

He’s now inside the Soto del Real prison in Madrid, and his lawyer, José Anibal Álvarez claims that the million € bail found in the Malaya case came from friends and family. The ex Deputy Mayor of Marbella, Pedro Román, is thought to be among those to have put up some of the case, but the judge also considers, and even said in his summary, that for sure Roca has large assets outside the country. Román also faces charges of bribery, money laundering and fraud, and other suspects in the case such as the lawyer Antonio Abril and Roca’s wife, Rosa Jimeno, are thought to have each put up 100,000 € of the total.


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