At the weekend, the Spanish Supreme Court banned two nationalist parties from fielding candidates in those polls following allegations of links to Eta.
He also said the UK should "thicken" links with region following this month's hostage crisis in Algeria at a gas facility, in which 69 people are known to have died.
Data obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request by David Patch, a well-known blogger in the movement to eradicate manipulative naked short-selling, showed an astonishingly high degree of trade settlement failures in Global Links shares in the days and weeks following a 350-to-1 reverse split in February 2005.
Sam Rocket, 22, who had close links with the UVF, was shot dead at his girlfriend's house on the following Wednesday night in reprisal for their double murder.