As an urban planning adviser in the sun- drenched Spanish resort town of Marbella, Juan Antonio Roca had after- tax income of less than 150,000 euros a year.
When he was arrested for corruption in March 2006, police seized assets worth 2.4 billion euros ($3.4 billion), including a century-old palace in Madrid, a country estate equipped with a helipad overlooking the Rock of Gibraltar and a stud farm guarded by a tiger.
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Sounds like he's entered James Bond Villain territory. Better alert MI5!
Love the headline!
Greed is insatiable
Eat the rich
Yet another example of the rich behaving badly and defrauding the populace. I wonder what the exact dollar figure is that requires you to cash in your soul to continue. Is it $50 million, $100 million? At $100 million, you have to contractually agree to become human garbage in order to earn an amount above $100 million? I just don't get it.
I'm buying a place in Marbella.
They coild use my organizational skills, acumen and wisdom down there.
I dunno, I only been to Costa Brava and its the pits.
hmmm!
Is Xavier Bardim available? This is the stuff movies are made of.
They should have fed him to those tigers.
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Bloomberg | Ben Sills and Sharon Smyth | January 8, 2009 01:49 AM