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Saturday, April 08, 2006

Marbella investors try to buy hotels in Ibiza from one day to another

On Thursday they offered the double of their price, "the maximum in B", for a apartotel of Sant Antoni, Marbellíes investors try to canalize, as quickly as possible, investments of million euros of ilegal trafficking money to Ibiza, days after the Malayan Operation disarticulated the city council of that locality. A hotelkeeper of the municipality native of ibiza of Sant Antoni the past received Thursday a offer that let to him perplex, because they proposed the transaction to him of his establishment of a day for another one, without it have examined and practically doubling the price of market. The buyers, that they identified to Marbella like his zone of origin, specified that the payment would take place with "the maximum in B". Apartotel that they try the marbellíes consists of 68 apartments of four stars, and is located in forward edge of beach. His proprietor is a local industralist, who did not have plans to sell it. To prices of market, the complex would be appraised between four and five million euros. Both buying they offered seven immediately to him, leaving the door open to a proposal still more elevated, always on condition that the black payment predominated. The hotel native of ibiza does not lodge any doubt on the seriousness of the proposal. Their interlocutors, who appeared like representatives of a group of Marbella, raised to him immediately if he wanted to sell his hotel, and knew the steps retail to follow to formalize the operation. They assured his economic solution to him, they offered a payment to him as advance payment and they calculated that the treatment could be closed in eight days. In principle, the industralist refused to the hasty transaction. Although he does not discard that the buyers had a previous knowledge of the situation of their business, the industralist insists in which the supply agreed with the first encounter that maintained with them. In spite of the initial reluctance, both buying they insisted to him on which they would resume the contact. Balears has been one of the destinies privileged by the ilegal trafficking money coming from Marbella. Juan Antonio Rock, the adviser of Urbanism of the city council Andalusian to whom considers the brain of the plot, has two villas in the southern coast of Majorca. This newspaper informed into which Justice had investigated meetings in those houses.

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A map of Ibiza in five languages will orient to the tourists during the construction

Stella Matutes affirms that the alternatives "are even more interesting than the habitual routes". The Govern announces works to prepare road from Santa Gertrudis-Sant Mateo

The insular consellera of Routes and Works, Stella Matutes, presented yesterday next to the Public Work chief of a main directorate of the Balearic Govern, Carles Jover, a pamphlet published by both institutions that inform on the alternative routes recommended to get to the airport, to Sant Josep and to Sant Antoni during roadworks that will follow in summer. Jover was committed to publish another pamphlet in June in that already they will appear the new sections that are going to be opening "as soon as the works have finalized". This is the case of the section of the second belt until the rotonda of Can Sifre. Two of the four tracks of this route will be opened within two months to give to access to the highway of Sant Josep from the second belt. The pamphlet are available in Catalan, Castilian, English, French and Italian, and gathers the routes that are under construction but are accessible, those that are under construction and are not practicable and the recommended routes to circulate between Ibiza and the airport, Ibiza and Sant Antoni, and the airport, Sant Josep and Sant Antoni. Matutes affirmed that these recommended routes "are even more interesting than the habitual ones" In plus, to improve the alternatives to the highway of Sant Antoni will prepare the section of highway between Santa Gertrudis and Sant Mateu, having extended the tracks using the borders and eliminating some curve. "there will be no expropriations and the works will be finished before the summer", explained Jover. Another alternative that does not discard is that the Consell facilitates free buses if important collapses are observed during this summer. The guide will be distributed in the airport, ports of Ibiza and Sant Antoni, tourist information ofices, hotels, shipping, rents of vehicles, travel agencies, touroperators and to the interested institutions.

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