Scottish actor Sean Connery, 79, and his wife Micheline have been summoned for questioning by a Spanish court in connection with a money-laundering case, judicial sources said Friday.

Connery is one of nearly 30 people indicted in the case involving urban planning in the holiday resort of Marbella.

The judicial sources did not reveal details about the case, but the daily El Mundo said it was related to a villa the actor owned in Marbella, and sold for a high profit.

A four-storey building was then built on that land in 2004 and 2005 on what investigators suspect was an illegal building permit issued under Marbella´s notoriously corrupt mayor, the late Jesus Gil y Gil.

Police searched the offices of several lawyers in the operation Goldfinger, named after the movie in which Connery played James Bond in 1964.

The actor and his wife were summoned to appear in court on May 27.

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