The Hidalgo money laundering case in Marbella has now also revealed the payment of commissions for building licences in Estepona. El País has printed the transcripts of phone taps included in a police report which is part of the case summary, which indicate a series of payments and deals were made with civil servants in or linked to Estepona Town Hall.
El País has today printed the transcripts of phone conversations including a municipal architect and Jan Nadir, one of the people charged in the Hidalgo case
At the centre of the allegations is Jan Khan Nadir who wanted to buy land in the town. He is already facing charges of VAT fraud worth 130 million € in Belgium linked to a petrol station business. The paper names one of the five architects who work in the Town Hall, Arturo Cebrián, as being involved and prints the transcript of call between him and Nadir. He has been an employee of the Town Hall since 2004 and runs a business called Arce Arquitectura. El País says his main job is to inform on the licences being applied for, and he was part of