BUSINESS
June 11, 2011 | By Nathan Olivarez-Giles, Los Angeles Times
Spanish police on Friday arrested three alleged members of the hacker and activist group Anonymous on suspicion of taking part in online attacks against Sony Corp.'s PlayStation Network, as well as banks, businesses and government websites. Police said the three "hacktivists," whose identities have not been released, were involved in the April hacking of the PlayStation Network, an online video gaming and entertainment service that Sony suspended for more than a month after the attack.
ENTERTAINMENT
April 16, 2011
Investigators have recovered stolen masterpieces by two of Spain's most revered artists: Goya and El Greco, Spanish police said Friday. The oil-on-canvas works, Goya's 18th century "The Apparition of the Virgin of Pilar" and El Greco's 16th century "The Annunciation," were stolen 14 years ago after an exhibition tour. Works by these painters are highly valued and most are kept in museums such as Madrid's Prado. However, these two were privately owned when stolen. They were found in a private house near the southeastern city of Alicante, a police statement said.
ENTERTAINMENT
January 23, 2009 | Associated Press
Spanish police said Thursday that they had confiscated dozens of suspected fake Dali artworks that were to be put on sale in the southern town of Estepona. A total of 81 pieces were seized, 12 of which might be genuine pieces designed by Salvador Dali and are very similar to pieces listed on Interpol and Spanish police records as having been stolen in Belgium, France and the United States, a police statement said. The art included sculptures, bas-reliefs, lithographs, cutlery and textile pieces.
WORLD
November 18, 2008 | Times Wire Reports
French and Spanish police arrested Mikel Garikoitz Aspiazu Rubina, reputed leader of commando units for the Basque separatist group ETA. French counter-terrorism agents working with Spanish police detained Aspiazu Rubina in the French border town of Cauterets, French police said. Aspiazu Rubina, 35, is suspected of involvement in several killings, including the shootings in December of two Spanish guardsmen in France, French and Spanish officials said. ETA has been fighting since the 1960s for an independent Basque state in northern Spain and southwestern France.
WORLD
October 17, 2008 | From Times Wire Reports
Spanish police arrested 13 men accused of harboring Islamic extremists, including several suspects in the March 2004 Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people, the Interior Ministry said. The men are suspected of giving shelter to Islamic extremists and helping them flee the country. Police made the arrests in four towns near Barcelona. Raids also occurred in Madrid and Algeciras. The arrests stemmed from a 2005 police operation.
WORLD
May 21, 2008 | From Times Wire Reports
Spanish and French authorities arrested one of the highest-ranking members of the armed Basque separatist group ETA, a Spanish police spokesman said. Javier Lopez Pena was detained in Bordeaux with three other alleged ETA members, the police spokesman said anonymously, in keeping with police regulations. The official said Lopez Pena played a key role in the ETA's decision to end a cease-fire.