Spain's Corruption Capital: Trial Highlights Extent of Construction Boom Sleaze

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Spain's construction boom attracted many hustlers, particularly to the Costa del Sol's luxury resort town of Marbella. But now a singer's high-profile trial for bribery and money laundering is exposing the extent of the abuses and turning the city into a symbol of the consequences of an unsustainable growth model.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...847238,00.html