Arona police close "classic English pub" for illegal gambling

[Janet]

Arona Policía Local have confirmed a report in today's Diario de Avisos that they have closed an illegal betting shop in the municipality. The shop took bets on horse races, and during the raid, some €2,000 was seized: police say that they think the business moves around €10,000 daily. Police say that the owner of the property had ignored repeated warnings because betting activity was a good sideline to his official business, which is a "classic English pub". Police say that given other irregularities, the amount of fines likely to be imposed will probably mean that the business has to close. JA

[Perikles]

I am shocked...shocked.

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

That makes two of us.

[Delderek]

That place has got to have been the worst kept "secret" in Los Cris

[Janet]

Could be Churchills, yes ... but also could be the Highlander in Las Américas ... both known for it, and both in Arona.

edit: someone on my website has just said it's confirmed as the Highlander, though I don't know the value of the source.

[Perikles]

Police say that the owner of the property had ignored repeated warnings

Being Arona, this means that brown envelopes were not handed to the right people. 

[Janet]

or a number of denuncias - sufficient to be unignorable (ref brown envelopes for "ignorable") - were finally made by competitor businesses ...

[Delderek]

Could be Churchills, yes ... but also could be the Highlander in Las Américas ... both known for it, and both in Arona.

edit: someone on my website has just said it's confirmed as the Highlander, though I don't know the value of the source.

If it isn't Churchills then their brown envelopes are larger than the other one

[Delderek]

Also think that the name Highlander may not qualify as Classic English Pub.

[Janet]

yes, agree, but Spanish press and police won't readily identify them as different ... or will use "English" for anything British (or part thereof!) ...