Three held in Spain over death of Dutch Olympian Ingrid Visser
Volleyball player and her partner died when a business deal went wrong, police believe
Three men have been arrested on suspicion of murdering former Dutch Olympic volleyball player Ingrid Visser and her partner in what Spanish police believe may be a business-related incident.
Visser, 35, and Lodewijk Severein, 57, were reported missing on May 17, the Spanish police said. Two bodies fitting their descriptions were found in a shallow grave in a lemon grove outside Murcia on Sunday.
During a two-week search, the police were led to a building in the town of Molina de Segura, near Murcia, where the couple were thought to have arranged to meet the three suspects.
Murcia's chief of police, Cirilo Duran, said on Monday the meeting had been for "business reasons" which remain as yet unclear.
Investigators found evidence of a "violent episode, presumably linked with the disappearance of the Dutch citizens", the official police statement said.
"It was established that there had been three people in the dwelling and these are the three that have been arrested."