Year: 2020

Former top Mexican oil executive Emilio Lozoya will not contest extradition from Spain to face charges over the vast Odebrecht corruption scandal. Lozoya presented himself to Spanish magistrates on Monday and gave his “express consent to be handed over to the Mexican authorities offering his collaboration to establish and clarify the facts in the charges against him.” Lozoya, chief executive of the PEMEX state oil company from 2012-2016, is the […]

A British man has been arrested in Tenerife on suspicion of stabbing his father to death. Spanish police say the victim, who is also British, is alleged to have been knifed between 30 and 40 times at a home yesterday morning. The son, said to be in his 30s and believed to be an expat, was arrested at about 10am in the southern municipality of Granadilla de Abona.

Spain’s Foreign Affairs Ministry has called for the end to the blockade on oil production in Libya. International talks are currently ongoing to end the blockade of the country’s oilfields by forces loyal to the Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar. Losses from the closure of Libya's oil wells and the current blockades imposed by Haftar's militia have added up to nearly $6 billion over the last five months.

The British Embassy says the Spanish government's new residency document for those UK nationals who are protected by the Withdrawal Agreement, the TIE, will be introduced shortly. Instructions are being issued to local authorities in the next few days and this will mean a revised appointments process for UK nationals. The Embassy said that in some areas there may be a gap of around a week between the current system […]

Spanish police have broken up a criminal organisation that illegally shipped 2,500 tonnes of toxic waste from the Canary Islands all over West Africa. The Civil Guard said some 34 people were arrested on Tenerife and Gran Canaria as part of a joint operation with Europol. Over the past two years, the group dispatched 138 shipments, from discarded car engines to household goods, in breach of local and international laws. […]