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A LEADING expat charity boss has been accused of syphoning off an inheritance and cutting off all contact with her family after the death of their mother. Marie Gleeson, who runs Age Concern Estepona and Manilva (ACE), was branded a ‘scoundrel’ by her own sister after their 91-year-old mother Catherine died in February, 2021. Gleeson, 60, originally from Liverpool, has long been recognised for her charity work. The UK’s ambassador Alex Ellis even shook her hand as she was described as leading a ‘key organisation supporting British nationals’ in Estepona last month.
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But her sister, Annette Fisher, claims Gleeson leads a double life that belies her image as an upstanding pillar of society. According to Annette, a school librarian based in Norwich, someone transferred almost all the money out of their mother’s bank account just days after she died, three years ago. She said it left the family without any inheritance, despite a 2018 will stipulating that it should be divided equally between the two sisters, plus the children of another sister Denise, who died in 2016. She claims on the day Catherine passed away there was €30,372 in the account, but within three days €26,000 was transferred, including €1,000 withdrawn in cash. She also insisted at least €80,000 was put into Catherine’s BBVA account between 2019 - when she moved to Spain - and 2021, including the proceeds of a HIGH SOCIETY: Gleeson property sale in the UK. (left) shakes hands with The Olive Press has seen records of the Ambassador Ellis account, to which Marie was the only other known person with access, the family claim. Mysteriously, by M A R B E L L A’ S M O ST E XC LU S I V E the end of 2022, GROOMING EXPERIENCE some 16 months after Catherine’s death, there was practically noth-
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ing left in the account. “My sister leached money out of the account for a year before mum died,” Annette told the Olive Press this week. “There’s hardly a day when she didn’t buy something – makeup, perfume, household appliances, some art shop she liked. “I really don’t believe it was my mother’s purchases. She was wheelchair bound and very frail. “Marie was the co-signatory of that account. Only she could have taken that money. “By my mother’s death, there was just a fraction left, which my sister finally moved. “I don’t know where and it’s a massive betrayal of trust to move money from a dead person’s account.” After bringing in lawyers, Annette soon discovered that it was a ‘criminal, not civil case’. The family have not yet filed an official criminal complaint against Gleeson, in part because they don’t ‘want her to go to prison’. “If we were in the same country, it might be different,” continued Annette. “It would be easier and Marie knows how to play the system in Spain inside out.” Gleeson has long been by allegations BEST DIVING IN ANDALUCIA dogged of impropriety relating
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FRAIL: Catherine was confined to her bed, and (right) Annette
DODGY: Charity boss Marie Gleeson and the suspicious bank transfers
to her running of ACE, where she holds the conflicting roles of not just president but also treasurer. Several whistleblowers approached the Olive Press in 2023 to reveal that three members of the executive committee had resigned over allegations of bullying and a lack of financial transparency from Gleeson. She denied everything while friends claimed it was ‘a smear campaign’. When the Olive Press put the new allegations to Gleeson in a series of emails, she failed to respond to them. However, bizarrely, she later defended herself on Facebook, insisting the clothes and make up were not for her and dismissing Annette as an ‘extremely angry sister’ who she hadn’t seen ‘since 1996’. She claimed that Annette ‘tried to sell [mum’s] flat in the UK without her knowledge’ and that the family ‘never visited me or mum once, not even for her funeral or for her 85th, 86th, 87th, 89th, 90th, 91st, 92nd birthdays’. “But they did have time to go on luxury holidays in the same period to America, Mexico, Moscow, Paris, Australia and Madrid. “When I called them to say she had passed at 92 years Continues on Page 2