MCCANNS HIRED CORRUPT DETECTIVES TO HUNT FOR WITNESSES

He is now remanded in custody!

Please also see the thread with the damning article from The Times concerning Metodo3 - but Clarence tells us operationally they are really good - what in bribery, corruption, and smuggling millions of pounds worth of cocaine - no wonder Gerry hand picked them for the job! Just how many people have they bribed and harassed now I wonder and how many years prison is it going to get them...My heart goes out to the PJ in trying to unravel this lot on limited resources, I hope Spanish police, UK and interpol are giving them full backing and support. No wonder the PJ wanted the assistance of Europol who work with various Member States where there is International crime. As a small country with limited resources they must be struggling to cope with this investigation.

Viv x
From The Daily Telegraph yesterday:
Madeleine McCann: detective agency link held
Last Updated: 3:16am GMT 24/02/2008
A retired policeman linked to the private detective agency hired to find Madeleine McCann has been arrested on suspicion of helping criminals who stole £25 million of cocaine.
Antonio Jimenez, who has been linked to Metodo 3, the Spanish detective agency hired by the McCann family to find their missing daughter, was last night remanded by a judge investigating alleged police corruption and the theft in 2005 of 1,100?lb of cocaine from a Barcelona dockyard.
The arrest comes amid mounting scepticism about the role of Metodo 3 in the search for Madeleine, who disappeared on May 3 last year while on holiday with her family in Praia da Luz, Portugal.
Metodo 3, whose contract with Madeleine's parents Kate and Gerry expires next month and has yet to be renewed, was criticised last year when Francisco Marco, its managing director, spoke of finding the four-year-old by Christmas.
It has also emerged that, in 1995, five senior members of the agency were arrested in a phone-tapping case. They were never charged, however, and an investigating judge threw out the case, condemning police entrapment.


Clarence Mitchell, the spokesman for the McCanns, sought to distance Jimenez from Metodo 3.
He said: "He is nothing to do with us. He collaborated with Metodo 3 on a project, but that was two years before the company was hired to find Madeleine.
"We still have faith in the work of Metodo 3."
Mr Marco denied Spanish television reports that Jiminez, 53, has worked for Metodo 3 for three years.
He insisted that Jimenez was, until three weeks ago, a business partner of his mother, Maria Fernandez Lado, who founded Metodo 3. He said Jimenez had been involved with a separate company.
Spanish records, however, reportedly showed that this business had the same listed address as Metodo 3.
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separate article found by Delores of the Pink Rose!

Detective Informing McCann arrested for theft of 400 kg of cocaineHe was the one who "discovered" witnesses who claimed to have Maddie apperçuA private detectives serving McCann, belonging to the agency Metodo 3, has been arrested for involvement in the theft of 400 kg of cocaine in the port of Barcelona.Detective Antonio J.R. 53 year old - who works for Metodo 3 on the file of investigation in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann - held the position of Chief Inspector of the Unit for Drugs and Organized Crime (Udyco) by the police in Barcelona when of the facts. He had left the police to go directly to the agency Metodo 3, the precise time when the internal investigation had begun about the disappearance of 400 kg of cocaine in a total of one and a half tonnes , arrested on a boat from Venezuela. The Court of First Instance of Martorell (Barcelona), which has now dictated preventive prison, without recourse, Antonio JR, accused of malfeasance, corruption, bribery of public officials and criminal association illegal.Serving Metodo 3 since 2005, the detective was responsible for special operations in the framework of investigations in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, he had in recent months travelled to Morocco and Portugal, announcing several witnesses , who said seeing Madeleine.Enfants Kidnappes 16th Feb.,