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The Civil Guard has confirmed that the human remains found in the registry of a farm in Valdepeñas (Ciudad Real) correspond to Juan Miguel Isla Fernández, 58 years old and missing since July 2022. In this investigation, two arrests have been made for his alleged connection with this disappearance.

"As expected according to the hypotheses handled by the research team, it has been confirmed through biological analysis that the human remains found belong to Juan Miguel Isla Fernández," the Civil Guard said in a statement.

The investigation, developed by agents of the Central Operational Unit (UCO) and the Command of Ciudad Real is directed by the Court of Instruction number 2 of Manzanares.

In the framework of this investigation, two arrests have been made, that of the owner of the farm, Antonio Caba., as the main suspect according to sources of the investigation, and that of G.R.E., 78 years old and for whom yesterday provisional detention was issued communicated and without bail.

Antonio Caba continued this Thursday in the custody of the Civil Guard, which continued to carry out searches. Sources of the investigation indicate that the latter is the owner of the Valdepeñas farm where the skeletal remains were found, which has now been confirmed to correspond to Juan Miguel Isla.

Juan Miguel Isla, 58, disappeared on July 22, 2022 after attending a business appointment with an intermediary in his town in which he was allegedly going to charge 50,000 euros for the sale of some land.

His car, a Renault Clio, was located on January 25, abandoned on the outskirts of the city of Albacete and investigators believe it was a distraction maneuver by the detainees.

The Civil Guard investigates the disappearance of another man in 2019, Jesús González, another businessman in the area, also in Manzanares, in case it was related to the same intermediary arrested after the discovery of the skeletal remains in a well of his property. In his case he mediated the sale of some cars.

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