Devalda was arrested in March 2011 at a hotel in the southern luxury resort of Marbella.
Marbella's councillors are alleged to have taken bribes, but the corruption elsewhere is often more subtle.
Estimates for the resorts around Marbella run as high as 70% of total income.
The Marbella case shows that the law is at last being applied in some places.
He recently unveiled a bust of the former Spanish dictator, Franco, in Marbella town hall.
Ken Schooler, whose English pub in nearby Marbella houses the Pena Internacional, tells a similar story.
Yet what could be a sensible way of financing local development got out of hand in Marbella.
Several weeks ago police raided the Marbella town hall as well as the offices of Athletico Madrid.
Perhaps that is the magic behind one of the most beloved recipes of all time, Chicken Marbella.
Other assets include properties in the capital Madrid and the resort of Marbella, and seven luxury cars.
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Fisher's home course Wentworth used to stage the tournament before it was switched to Finca Cortesin near Marbella.
Many of Spain's political parties are united against him and he faces consistent complaints about over-development in and around Marbella.
Nor will a large stash of cash underneath the sofa, a flash car, a yacht or even a villa in Marbella.
Per-Ulrich Johansson, the Swedish rookie whose performances were one of the week's revelations, speaks perfect English and lives in Marbella, Spain.
Marbella is now being run by administrators appointed by a regional authority.
The Dingwall club were due to travel from Glasgow Airport to Marbella.
Already, the centre-right parties, just back from a jamboree in the Spanish resort of Marbella, are promising the commission a rough time.
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But it was only when a dozen councillors from the southern resort of Marbella were arrested in March that hard evidence came out.
And he will expect to stay in red with a sprint finish in Marbella on Sunday, at the end of a 173.7km stage.
He has remained unmarried, living at various times in Marbella, Paris and Monte Carlo, leaving it to his brothers and brokers to execute trades.
One of the most flamboyant characters in Spain and mayor of the southern holiday resort of Marbella, Jesus Gil y Gil, has been sent to prison.
The two buildings in Madrid's wealthy Moraleja district are worth a combined 7m euros while the seven properties in Marbella are worth more than 3m euros.
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The resale value of finished homes is stable, says Marbella-based realtor Kristina Szekely, president of Kristina Szekely Sotheby's International Realty, a firm specializing in luxury Spanish properties.
But if HMV's executives had looked out from that luxury beach hotel in Marbella, they might just have seen a few dark clouds forming on the horizon.
The Serb prevailed 7-6 0-6 7-6 in a match lasting two hours and 46 minutes and will now go in search of her second title of 2009 after her only previous success came in Marbella in April.
There are also the rumbling cases of the flamenco star who refutes charges that she money-laundered for her husband while he was mayor of Marbella, and another ex-mayor who says no he did not take cash off the Russian mafia.
Located between Marbella and Sotogrande in the Costa del Sol, Finca Cortesin is a coastal development set by an 18-hole golf course of the same name, which opened in 2006 and this year plays hosts to the Volvo World Match Play Championship.
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