Sean Connery states he had 'no connection whatsoever' with Marbella corruption case
Tuesday, February 18, 2014 @ 2:37 PM
BOND legend Sean Connery and his wife have denied any involvement with building corruption and money-laundering offences relating to their villa in Marbella in a case that has been ongoing since 2007 and features several public figureheads as accused parties.
Connery said he had 'no connection with' the mayor of the Costa del Sol town, Jesús Gil, and 'did not know him personally', having only ever seen him once at a public event and not actually spoken to him.
Neither did the actor know former Marbella mayor Julián Muñoz or councillor Juan Antonio Roca, both of whom are charged with multi-million-euro tax evasion and corruption offences concerning a luxury residential development on the Costa del Sol.
“I saw him at a public event, but do not consider that this could be defined as my having known him.
“I did not enter into any relations with him.
“In the 1990s, I instructed by lawyer, Héctor Díaz-Bastién to order Sr Gil to withdraw his video campaigning for his re-election as mayor of Marbella, and which contained footage of me without my consent, from circulation. This request was duly attended to,” Connery stated in a Málaga court last week.
“I have not obtained any benefit whatsoever in relation to the contracts mentioned,” the actor continued.
He declared that he had 'never been in Gil's offices', nor even inside Marbella town hall, in his life.
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