BIG BUCKS

Man charged over £22 million money laundering case

By John Culatto

searches of his shop and home where authorities seized large amounts of cash.

“The investigation revealed

Stamping out

residents ‘are travelling for onward travel outside Spain’.

The Government said travellers should expressly ask for the stamp at the Gibraltar frontier with Spain if they are catching a flight from Malaga airport, for example.

“It is their responsibility to get a stamp,” the government insisted.

a large turnover of sales of tobacco which were largely inconsistent with the declarations made to the Income Tax Office,” Gibraltar’s Customs said.

“Therefore, the cash seized is alleged to form part of the proceeds from criminal activity.” Another charge relates to £61,816 of undeclared cash found in his possession. He is alleged to have evaded tax on £1,187,075 and sold more than the legal limit of 200 cigarettes at one time to the same person.

Prosecutors charged Rohit Shukla, 32, of Montagu Gardens with ‘possession of approximately £17,219 of unde- clared income in different currencies’, the statement said. The case has been adjourned until March 17.

The project – part of the Gibraltar Active Travel Strategy – will make Europort Avenue, Europort Road and Euro City Passage a one-way traffic system.

It includes landscaped gardens and a two-way bicycle lane.

At the same time, it will create pick-up and dropoff zones for the new schools in the area.

It is based on the UK’s Living Streets project that aims to plant trees for shade in a pleasing landscape that helps people walk or cycle to school safely.

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Respecting women

AS we mark International Women’s Day it is important to remember that gender discrimination is still rife in our community.

Whether it is the women who are beaten up by their partners or paid less than men to do more in the workplace, society has to wake up and smell the coffee.

We are lucky enough in Gibraltar that thanks to Minister for Equality Samantha Sacramento’s leadership, we finally have fit-for-purpose domestic abuse laws.

Police have arrested more cowardly male attackers in recent months than ever before.

It must be a relief for women on the Rock that male violence is no longer considered a hushed family issue that must be covered up to protect the good name of the patriarch.

But there are more subtle issues for Gibraltar to unravel.

That is why the International Women’s Day (IWD) global organising committee has this event labelled as #EmbraceEquity.

On its website, it encourages women to embrace themselves as a symbol of this will ‘to forge harmony and unity’.

But what else can we do at a personal level to accept and embrace women on the Rock?

A few things come to mind.

Stop expecting women to behave in a certain way is probably the most obvious.

The gender binary is strong in Gibraltar and women are told to smile, wear makeup and be picturesque for men. But they should only really do that if it makes them feel good in a social unit – not because of external pressure.

Men can also play their own part by not sexually objectifying women.

That means not wolf-whistling at women on the street or silencing their opinions in person.

Women have a growing role to play in society and empathy is the first step towards equity.

Only men can take that step themselves, by not accepting this behaviour from their friends and allowing women to speak up.

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John Culatto