A total of 77 people are in court over their role in a €3.5 million ($4.42 million) scam involving thousands of fake tickets sold to tourists going to Granada’s emblematic Alhambra Palace between 2002 and 2005.
Police in Spain have arrested 52 people alleged to have swindled over €15 million ($19.5 million) from 150,000 self-employed workers and small businesses over a 14-year period by pretending to be official police representatives.
Spanish police said on Tuesday they have detained a Chinese man wanted for allegedly swindling 40 people in China out of around 17 million euros ($23 million) between 2009 and 2012.
The spectacular collapse of Spanish Wi-Fi provider Let's Gowex has led to fears that a perception of poorly regulated markets in Spain will see foreign investment dry up just as the country begins to fight its way out of recession.
Spanish police have arrested 313 people and called in another 328 for questioning after three investigations into massive social security fraud, officials said on Monday.
Montserrat Caballé, the operatic soprano who famously sang 'Barcelona' with Freddy Mercury, has been charged with allegedly defrauding the Spanish tax system out of more than half a million euros.
Police from Spain, the UK and Serbia have arrested 110 people around Europe in a sting operating targeting scammers who defrauded UK investors of millions of euros, new information shows.
Spanish police arrested 422 people as they swooped on a vast fake employment scam that cost the state at least €2.6 million ($3.6 million), the government said on Tuesday.
Spain's biggest workers' union used EU funds meant for training courses for the unemployed to instead buy 700 counterfeit briefcases, a Spanish newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi has appeared in court to answer charges of evading €4.16 million ($5 million) in taxes in a case that stunned the sporting world.
Spanish police arrested on Tuesday a former JPMorgan Chase trader wanted by the United States on criminal charges in the massive "London Whale" fraud case.
Barcelona football star Lionel Messi has been named as a suspect in a tax fraud probe and summoned to appear in court, a spokesman for the public prosecutor's office in Barcelona said on Thursday.
