Former rocker boss Frank Hanebuth answered questions in court for the first time in the criminal proceedings in Spain on Tuesday.

However, on the second day of the hearing he only agreed to answer questions from his lawyer.

He declined an offer to sit down during the questioning.

"No thanks, I'm standing, I can't get up that fast anymore," said the 58-year-old ex-boxer in a black outfit.

He and 48 other people have been charged before the National Criminal Court in San Fernando de Henares near Madrid with, among other things, forming a criminal organization, drug trafficking, pimping and threats in Mallorca.

For Hanebuth alone, 13 years of imprisonment are required.

He and his attorney have denied the allegations.

The first questioning by his lawyer concerned the prosecutor's allegation that Hanebuth committed crimes between 2009 and 2013 as the regional head of the Hells Angels in Mallorca.

Hanebuth said a local Hells Angels group existed in Mallorca from November 7, 2009 to February 19, 2011.

However, he had nothing to do with this group, called “Charter” in rocker jargon.

From 2011 to 2013 he was only in Mallorca during the summer holidays and for the birthday of a German friend, currently living in Hanover and having no business relationships with the other defendants.

Hanebuth said of his work in Germany: "I advise several companies, had a security company and have a lot of gastronomy." In Spain he had no property, not even the "Son Paraíso" estate on Mallorca.

He was also never prosecuted for money laundering in Germany.

The mammoth trial began on Monday.

Hanebuth was arrested in the summer of 2013 on Mallorca along with many other alleged motorcycle rockers in a spectacular raid.

After two years behind bars, he was released from custody in Cádiz in 2015 on bail of 60,000 euros.

He was only allowed to leave Spain again in 2017.

He then returned to Germany.