53 guilty in Spain's largest corruption trial

A Spanish court has convicted 53 people in the country’s biggest corruption trial, which lasted two years and centered on widespread property fraud and bribery in the southern jet-set resort town of Marbella.

The defendants in the trial, which ended last year, included former town hall officials, lawyers and business representatives. The judge took several months to decide on the sentences – 40 other people were acquitted and two accused died while the case was being prepared.