By h.b. - Jan 16, 2011 - 9:29 PM

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_28742.shtml

The singer's lawyers claim her relationship with Julián Muñoz did not start until after her purchase of a flat in the Guadalpín Hotel

Lawyers representing the singer, Isabel Pantoja, in the Malaya case have, in written evidence, claimed that she did not start her relationship with Marbella Mayor, Julián Muñoz, until April or May 2003.

Pantoja and Muñoz both face money laundering charges in the case, but her defence says the relationship started a year later than claimed by the instruction judge. They argue that the first money laundering charge against the singer, related to the purchase of an apartment in the Guadalpín Hotel, is dated before then.

In the defence document which is some 50 pages in length, they call for their client to be declared not guilty, and also supply bank information to justify her income.

Pantoja has made a written offer of assets to cover a 3.6 million bail which the instruction judge in court 5 in Marbella placed against her last October, with Muñoz, his ex wife Maite Zaldívar, and seven others also facing money laundering charges.

The anti-corruption prosecutor is calling for a three and a half year prison sentence for the singer, and seven years for Julián Muñoz in this section of the Malaya case.

Meanwhile the first of a two part dramatisation of the Malaya case shown on TVE1 on Friday got the highest ratings of the night with over two million viewers, a 12.4% share.

It was just as well however that the programme started with the statement that it was a fiction, as there were many inaccuracies in the script, which mixed the Malaya and Ballena Blanca cases together, and confused the date that Judge Torres arrived in the Marbella Instruction court by three years.

The series highlighted three shootings which never happened. A shooting in the H10 hotel in Puerto Banus in December 2004 which saw the death of a child and a hairdresser is still to be solved, and is not thought to have been linked to the Malaya case.

Many noted how Roca in the television programme always wore a tie, while at the time he was well known for going open shirted. The programme put his office in the Town Hall, where in fact it was located elsewhere, and many other inaccuracies have resulted in many criticisms of the programme appearing on the internet.