Caja de Ahorros del Mediterraneo (CAM), a Spanish savings bank seized by the Bank of Spain, said more than half of its loans for property development were in default. Of 12.7 billion euros ($17.2 billion) lent to developers, 6.4 billion euros were classed as doubtful, the lender said in explanatory notes to its first-half earnings published late yesterday. Another 1.3 billion euros of those loans were classed as “substandard,” the lender said. The...
'Hatchet' Gerard Kavanagh shot dead in Costa del Sol pub
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Gerard Kavanagh was shot dead in a bar on the Costa del Sol Notorious
gangster Gerard “Hatchet” Kavanagh was gunned down by two masked assassins
yesterda...