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Tables turned
Judge and prosecutor in the failed Cursach trial now in the dock for shady nature of their investigation defendants have made the demands against Judge Manuel Penalva and anti-corruption prosecutor Miguel Angel Subiran, who are sensationally set to go on trial themselves next year.
A PRIVATE investigator who worked with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle is chasing ‘several leads’ in the missing Levi Davis case. Investigator Gavin Burrows volunteered to help track down the former X-Factor star and sent a team of detectives from his firm, Line of Inquiry, to Barcelona. His 12 agents have been working on rotation around the clock scouring the streets. “We have a number of leads but one could be really significant we are following up,” Bur-
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They also want jail terms for four anti-money laundering police who were allegedly caught colluding with the judge and prosecutor to influence the trial against night club magnate Cursach. The former Cursach hunters are now facing charges of illegal detention, judicial prevaricacion (abusing judicial power), torture, threats, disclosure of secrets, obstruction of justice and omission of duty to prosecute crimes. Penalva and Subiran were removed from the trial in 2018 amid suspicions of pressuring witnesses and leaking information - including one policeman who was threatened with jail if he did not make the witness statement they demanded. Further revelations of a Whatsapp
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THE judge and prosecutor who led the trial of Tolo Cursach, Mallorca’s ‘king of the night’, are facing up to 30 years behind bars for their handling of the investigation. Lawyers for Cursach and his fellow
ACCUSED: Judge Penalva (left) and prosecutor Subiran group between the investigators showed they routinely insulted the defendants and their lawyers, even threatening to put them in handcuffs if ‘they have the balls to make [Penalva] resign’.
The disclosures saw the pair removed and ultimately led to the dramatic collapse of the trial last month, with new prosecutor Tomas Continues on Page 4
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