The Audience of Cáceres has sentenced Romanian Dumitru Constantin to four years in prison, 48 -year -old partner and his 29 -year -old Mexican exmsss, after they were accused of stealing 45 bottles of wine from the Atrio restaurant, located in the city Cacereña and that they visited up to three times.

However, the thing was not there since the judges forced the two defendants to pay compensation of 753,454 euros, that is, the same amount in which the expert Roberto Nebreda and the restaurant insurance company, Reale Seguros, tasted the bottles stolen. An established sanction after the judges considered proven that the authors committed a crime of “robbery with force open to the public of special gravity.”

The sentence, of 24 folios and whose content includes ‘El País’, said that Constantin and Guevara “planned the events on June 1 and 13, and on August 12”, with the previous stay of the woman at the Hotel Athrus Located next to the restaurant on October 26. The exmiss, according to the brief, arrived with a false Swiss passport and with an empty backpack and had dinner that same night with the Romanian male. In room 107 of the hotel, they tested a tasting menu of 14 dishes.

After dinner, the theft happened. Everything came with the hotel receptionist’s refusal to process a woman’s command, who asked for a salad to subjected her to her room. Finally, he agreed to indicate that it would take 20 minutes. At the time this employee went to the kitchen, Constantin took control of one of the hotel’s electronic cards to access the cellar, although the key did not serve to open the door.

With the aim of preventing them from being hunted by hotel and restaurant workers, Guevara entertained the receptionist with two more orders. During that period of time, Constantin took the key that did serve to open the winery. There, he proceeded to keep the 45 bottles in the backpack supported in towels, to prevent them from breaking. The sentence considers proven that the two defendants of the robbery left at 5:00 of the facilities.

Arrested in Croatia in July 2022
Only eight months after what happened, both were arrested in the Croatian border post of Karasovici Sutorina, from Montenegro, thanks to a research and coordination work of different European bodies and security forces, including the National Police in collaboration in collaboration With Europol and Interpol agents, as well as the Border Police of Croatia and the Interior Agreed of Spain in Romania and the Netherlands.

According to the authorities, the thieves “proved to be highly specialized and with experience when robbery with a millimeter planning”, and were identified thanks to international coordination, although their location was “difficult”, according to a statement from the National Police.

A sentence that can still be used
A sentence that arrives almost two years after the events that occurred at the end of October 2021. That night, almost half a hundred bottles of wine were stolen among which were, among others, a 38 of Romanée Conti and a unique jewel, A 1806 chateau d´yquem considered “historical”, appraised at 350,000 euros. A copy that was the jewel of the restaurant’s crown, which has two Michelin stars and three Repsol soles.

Despite the condemnation filed, it is not yet firm and the defendants, ultimately, may still present an appeal before the Civil and Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of Extremadura. “From theft is all negative, it was very painful, it was something of José, who had done throughout his life,” said Toño Pérez, one of the owners of Athrium, days ago.

A court in the town of Malaga attributes the disclosure of secrets, coercion and omission to prosecute the crime in a separate piece of a case that investigates the businessman Salomon Kadosh, also arrested
The Internal Affairs Unit of the National Police has arrested this Monday the chief commissioner of the Malaga town of Fuengirola, José María Tocornal, for the alleged crimes of discovery and disclosure of secrets, failure to prosecute the crime and coercion, among others, have informed elDiario.es sources close to the investigation.

The investigation is directed by the Investigating Court number 3 of Fuengirola, whose head has decreed the secrecy of the proceedings. The aforementioned sources specify that the 63-year-old commissioner has been arrested early in the morning at his private home. In the same operation, a 58-year-old businessman, Salomon Kadosh Chuqueron, has been arrested.
The Efe agency cites police sources to ensure that, after his transfer to police stations, the commissioner will be dismissed and his employment and salary will be suspended, while a disciplinary file will be opened. Commissioner Tocornal is being investigated in a separate piece of a broader proceeding.

Tocornal, a native of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, joined the Superior Police Corps as an Inspector in 1983. He was stationed in Bilbao until 1992 and later in Huelva. In 2008 he was appointed head of the Provincial Citizen Security Brigade of the Huelva capital and in 2011 head of the Lucena-Cabra police station. He was promoted to commissioner in 2017 and his first destination with that category was Fuengirola.

For his part, the businessman Salomon Kadosh Chuqueron appears at the head of the company Orgánico Agricultura Andalucía SL, established in 2020, with headquarters in Fuengirola and dedicated to the cultivation of spices, aromatic, medicinal and pharmaceutical plants, as well as the production and marketing of insects for the control and prevention of pests in crops and the import and export of seeds and all kinds of plants.

Of the large listed companies, only FCC and San José generate more than half of their business in their country of origin, while in the case of ACS it is 9% and for Ferrovial, before moving to the Netherlands, 18%.
The week in which the Ferrovial group has opened a business and political crisis by deciding to move its headquarters to the Netherlands has coincided with the presentation of results, not only of the company chaired by Rafael del Pino, but of almost all the large Spanish construction companies .
In its financial report, Ferrovial repeats one of the arguments that it has put forward to explain its change of headquarters: Spain is a small part of its business, even though it has its “roots” here. And it is not the only one that emphasizes its internationalization and the strong weight of its activity abroad, although in parallel almost all the companies break down the development of infrastructures in Spain and, some of them, also the impulse that they are going to assume the European recovery funds for their businesses.
“We are the most advanced country in the deployment of said funds, part of which is being allocated to the improvement of transport and mobility, as well as to energy infrastructures”, Sacyr indicates in its report when talking about the injection that they can suppose the Next Generation. “Regarding the future of the construction sector in our country, it continues to be quite promising, since infrastructures are key when it comes to gaining competitiveness in a country whose economic pillars are tourism and exports,” adds this company, which, in 2022, left the post-pandemic red numbers behind and earned 110 million euros in a record year in revenue, more than 5,851 million.

Some businesses linked to concessions
In the case of Sacyr, almost two thirds of its sales are generated outside of Spain. In our country, it obtains 38% of its turnover, close to 2,166 million euros. A weight of Spain in its activity that is repeated in almost all the large listed construction companies, as detailed in the information that they have sent – although not all – to the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV).

If we go into detail about the data published by other competitors, Acciona has 43% of its activity in Spain, 4,925 million at the end of the year. The company controlled by the Entrecanales, in recent years, has focused on renewable energy. However, he speaks of the Spanish market as key in infrastructure and real estate activities.

This is one of the characteristics of how the business of the large Spanish construction companies has changed, which have shifted their activity from traditional construction to businesses linked to public concessions, such as highways, which they have embraced, for example, in the United States. or Canada. Acciona, when explaining the weight by market in its infrastructure construction activities, of the 4,650 million turnover, Spain corresponds to 754 million.

It is not a very different situation from that of FCC, which is controlled by Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim, who generates almost half of his income outside of Spain. In fact, he talks about the United States as the axis for the future in the environmental business, which includes waste management and urban cleaning services. “At the international level, the strong growth in the US stands out, where the growth in sales in 2022 compared to the previous year was 121%. FCC is already among the Top 15 companies in the sector in the US, with expectations of being in the Top 10 in the next 2 years”, he breaks down.

In the more traditional construction, its business in Spain fell by 1.7% in 2022, to 870 million euros “even with the good rate of progress in the remodeling of the Santiago Bernabéu football stadium,” he assumes, without saying how much he expects enter for that work.

There are other companies that are more concise when it comes to talking about how much each country means. This is the case of OHLA, which in recent years has gone from being in the hands of the Villar Mir family to that of Luis and Mauricio Amodio, also Mexicans. This multinational only points out that Spain accounts for almost 30% of its activity, while the whole of Europe -Spanish market, included- is 48%; North America, 35.4%; and Latin America, 16.4%. He does not give more details about how the domestic business is going.

The one that does have most of its activity in Spain is San José, a smaller construction company -worth 250 million on the stock market compared to Ferrovial’s 19,000- which concentrates 75% of its income in Spain, close to 818 million euro.

If San José is the one with the most, at the opposite end is ACS, which is the construction company with the highest income (more than 33,000 million) but with less business in Spain, lower in percentage than Ferrovial. The company chaired by Florentino Pérez only concentrates 9% of its activity in the local market, which a year earlier was 10.7%, according to its results presentations, because it has not yet published

in your annual report. Specifically, in Spain it invoices 3,170 million euros.

Almost 10 of every 100 euros that ACS earns come from Spain, while 56 come from the United States and 19 from Australia. This proportion is repeated if we look at where its project portfolio is located. With a nuance, its subsidiary Clece, focused on environmental, urban or airport services, does depend on Spain, which accounts for 90% of its activity.

Ferrovial plans to grow in Spain with European funds
And what happens in Ferrovial. The multinational argues when explaining its departure to the Netherlands that its “business is predominantly international”, because its country of origin contributes 18% of its turnover. In contrast, Canada and the United States, where it aspires to grow, are 36%.

However, it also expects to grow in the construction business in its still domestic market thanks to European funds. “In Spain, growth in sales is expected with respect to 2022 thanks to the good rate of contracting, with the award of several relevant railway contracts and for private clients, and once the delays in bidding derived from COVID have been overcome,” he argues in your annual report. “In the medium term, the application of the European Next Generation funds will maintain the momentum of the tender, to which is added the good dynamics of public railway and health initiatives, and private initiatives in industrial, building and renewable energy projects”, lists the levers that he believes will make him grow in Spain.

Here, at the end of 2022, Ferrovial had 5,413 employees. In the United States -where it also expects to grow thanks to public spending on infrastructure-, with 4,178. In the Netherlands, where it plans to be based before the fall, it had five.

A disparity of templates, which will lead to removals. This Thursday, the company explained to the CNMV that “after the merger becomes effective, it may happen that certain Ferrovial employees voluntarily relocate to the Netherlands.” “Similarly, it is possible that certain Ferrovial employees are relocated and become employees of other subsidiaries of the Ferrovial group in Spain”, he acknowledges.

putin ukraine palestinians
Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin.

Vladimir Putin would be recruiting Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and Syrian elite soldiers to fight in Ukraine after a brief military training. The Palestinians would earn about 350 dollars a month (about 329 euros) and about 300 have already completed their training and have been sent to the front.

A journalistic investigation indicates that young Palestinians residing in Lebanon are contacted by activists linked to the Palestinian Embassy. They are looking for Palestinians born after 1969 because they do not have official Lebanese documentation and this makes it easier for them to travel to join the conflict as mercenaries. The Lebanese government also does not have the power to monitor or follow their movements in Ukraine. Most of them come from the largest Palestinian refugee camp in the country, Ein al Jalua, located south of the city of Sidon and are usually affiliated with the Palestinian movement Al Fatá led by Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas, or the Popular Front for Liberation. of Palestine (PFLP).

This recruitment would be known and even coordinated with the Islamist Hezbollah militia party. The pro-Iranian organization itself would be recruiting sympathizers with knowledge of drone management and experts in urban guerrilla warfare. This recruitment is favored by the “miserable” situation in the refugee camps, in the words of the Lebanese researcher Riad Kahwayi: “There are no jobs for young people,” he pointed out.
putin ukraine palestinians
Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin.

Vladimir Putin would be recruiting Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and Syrian elite soldiers to fight in Ukraine after a brief military training. The Palestinians would earn about 350 dollars a month (about 329 euros) and about 300 have already completed their training and have been sent to the front.

A journalistic investigation indicates that young Palestinians residing in Lebanon are contacted by activists linked to the Palestinian Embassy. They are looking for Palestinians born after 1969 because they do not have official Lebanese documentation and this makes it easier for them to travel to join the conflict as mercenaries. The Lebanese government also does not have the power to monitor or follow their movements in Ukraine. Most of them come from the largest Palestinian refugee camp in the country, Ein al Jalua, located south of the city of Sidon and are usually affiliated with the Palestinian movement Al Fatá led by Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas, or the Popular Front for Liberation. of Palestine (PFLP).

This recruitment would be known and even coordinated with the Islamist Hezbollah militia party. The pro-Iranian organization itself would be recruiting sympathizers with knowledge of drone management and experts in urban guerrilla warfare. This recruitment is favored by the “miserable” situation in the refugee camps, in the words of the Lebanese researcher Riad Kahwayi: “There are no jobs for young people,” he pointed out.

As for Syria, the fighters are recruited by the Wagner Group, specialized in operations with mercenaries, at the Russian base of Jmeimim, near Latakia. Syrian Army soldiers are also sent to Ukraine, in particular from the 25th Special Operations Division, made up of soldiers already trained by Russia in the framework of the Syrian civil war and who would receive between 500 and 700 dollars a month.