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902 88 90 70 ISSUE NO. 1426
1 - 7 NOVEMBER 2012
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Police probe into €60,000 ‘scam’ By Frank Anderson NINE people have been arrested in two separate investigations into fraud at Palma airport car park. The operator is believed to be out of pocket by almost €60,000 as a result. The first arrests were of three members of a British family. They run a car hire company which does not have an office at the airport. The second batch of detentions, two days later, concerned six car park staff members. The three Britons, Anthony H, Lisa H and Veronica H had been advising clients to leave their hire cars at the car park at the end of the rental period. It is alleged that they employed a number of methods to avoid paying the airport charges. One was to superimpose false registration numbers on cars and as the first 30 minutes were free, they would leave without having to pay. Another was to enter the car park, take a ticket and then reverse and reenter, which would cause the machine to issue a new ticket, and
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Hotel bonus MALLORCAN hoteliers had a successful tourist season, with 38 per cent saying it was a significant improvement on last year. A mere 4 per cent had a worse summer while 58 per cent said it was broadly similar to 2011.
Tourist rise subsequently take the hire care with that ticket. A less sophisticated trick was to tailgate the lead car as the barrier went up. Through these methods, it is believed they were able to avoid paying more than €5,400 in charges. But that wasn’t the only case of fraud police were investigating at the car park. Within 48, officers were again raiding it to swoop on the six attendants. The six allegedly took advantage of a change in the operating system software. As a result, they were able to charge the full daily rate for a lost ticket but not hand over the full
amount to the company. It is estimated the company was defrauded of €54,000. When a customer lost a ticket, the procedure should have been to issue a duplicate, which would be charged at the full daily rate of up to €60 but the six employees are alleged to have issued manual ones. The customer would hand over the full amount but the employees would pocket all or some of the money. Following the change in software, a manager noticed that a disproportionate number of manual tickets had been issued and always during the shift that began at 3pm.
VISITORS to the Balearics have spent €9.1 billion so far this year, an increase of 6 per cent on last year. Only Catalonia earned more.
Club demo ABOUT 50 Real Mallorca fans held a demonstration outside the club’s old Lluis Sitjar stadium before the league match against Real Madrid on Sunday. They were calling on the club to the return to the now dilapidated ground it abandoned 13 years ago in favour of Son Moix.
Wait over THE first Media Markt electronics store in the Balearics is opening on Friday at the Ocimax centre in Palma. The store received 12,000 applications for its 120 vacancies.