Juan Antonio Roca won the lottery 80 times
Mar 31, 2007
The Malaya Judge, Miguel Angel Torres, considers the lottery wins are part of a money laundering scam
We now know the details of the latest declaration made to Judge Miguel Angel Torres in the Malaya corruption case by the man at the centre of the affair, Juan Antonio Roca, the ex real estate assessor in Marbella Town Hall.
The judge was investigating how the purchase of winning lottery tickets could have been used as a system to launder money, and Diario Sur newspaper reports that Roca told the court that he had in fact won the lottery as many as eighty times so far during his life.
The police investigation has also established that his wife and children have also been lucky in the lottery. Between the three of them they picked up prizes worth 600,000 € from different draws over six months in 2005.
“The judge had no qualms about signing the arrest warrants for the former councillors who allegedly voted according to Roca’s instructions or for the 13 developers who supposedly paid for planning favours. In some cases we are talking about ‘contributions’ of five million euros over a three year period.
If these were just bribes, it’s hard to imagine how big the profits were.