• Trial.A national police officer admits to evade the prison that betrayed drug attacks in Barcelona

The Barcelona Court will judge for prevarication a councilor of the PSC of Sant Adrià de Besòs, Juan Carlos Ramos, prosecuted for allegedly diverting public money intended to protect empty apartments in La Mina to give it to Ángel Amaya, known as Tío Cristina and head of the family of Los Manolos, linked to drug trafficking. Ready to stand trial in a few months, the Prosecutor's Office asks to disable the mayor for public office for 12 years.

The Public Ministry points him out for making deliveries of up to 2,000 euros to the clan chief at least four times in 2017 for the custody of homes in the impoverished neighborhood that borders Barcelona, ​​despite the fact that Amaya lacked an authorized private security company. The prosecutor accuses the regidor of proceeding "imposing his will above the law" and "perpetuating the quotas of power of the clans in La Mina."

According to the Prosecutor's Office, Ramos used shell companies. The councilor was vice president of the La Mina Consortium, where the Generalitat, Diputación, Barcelona and Sant Adrià participate. The organ assigned the surveillance of the buildings in 2016 to the Visegurity Express, but for the Prosecutor's Office it was more of a cover: it only assigned two guards when the task took 24 hours in various buildings; one of them admitted that, in the event of squatting, he should notify Uncle Cristina, who would have cheated on him when his son broke into an apartment saying that he had been awarded it.

The indictment relates that a Visegurity administrator, JRF, transferred 41,058.93 euros from the 153,679.91 euros that he collected from the Consortium to two JFF companies, who withdrew a total of 27,400 euros. Then he met with Ramos to provide him with an amount, which Uncle Cristina allegedly received . Prosecutor's Office claims seven years of disqualification for Amaya and employers by cooperators.

The Public Ministry details two meetings in which Ramos would have paid the leader of Los Manolos, who agreed with the Justice in January to avoid prison by admitting that he bribed a national police officer to blow up anti-drug operations against his relatives. The researchers observed Uncle Cristina with an envelope after coinciding with Ramos in May 2017; a month later, they saw the mayor pass a small envelope to Amaya. The dates coincide with which JFF extracted amounts in cash.

Surveillance was granted between 2012 and 2016 to five companies of "clans that controlled the neighborhood," recalls the prosecutor. The Mossos sent two who were not registered and Interior warned the Consortium. Posters with the name of Uncle Cristina were hooked on the portals and the "fear" they instilled discouraged them from being robbed, believes the Prosecutor's Office. Ramos was detained for a few hours in 2017 and has not stopped being a councilor. Since then, dozens of floors are squatted.

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