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Joaquín Irago Redondo was brought before a judge a decade ago accused of trafficking cocaine and heroin in the Galician Rías Baixas , denied any relationship with the world of drugs and alluded to a family business in Vilagarcía de Arousa that supported him financially. Neither the investigators nor the judge believed him and the Provincial Court of Pontevedra and the Supreme Court sentenced him to six years in prison. When that sentence came, he fled and became one of the most wanted drug traffickers in Spain.. Whether or not that alibi of the family business was true, five years escaped from Justice did confirm that it had a network that kept and hidden it. It was his closest family, but neither they have been able to prevent this week from falling again.

The Provincial Court of Pontevedra issued an order to search, arrest and enter prison because the Supreme Court confirmed a previous conviction for drug trafficking by this court and he did not comply with the order of imprisonment. Since then, all the Security Forces searched for him in Spain and abroad, but they ended up finding him very close to where he was arrested and tried for that case, in the town of Vilanova de Arousa in Pontevedra .

The leak is not at odds with the disease and the National Police found out that he had had several medical appointments at a Vilanova de Arousa health center and that he had collected medication on his behalf from a nearby pharmacy. Police inquiries revealed that his wife had actually gone to the pharmacy so that he would not expose himself to the destination that finally arrived, but they continued investigating.

Finally, with this information, they located the house of the woman of the fugitive, a careful detention device was established that had the collaboration of the GOES and Joaquín Irago, known as Quin , was arrested and sent to prison.

The National Police considers that to avoid police action, it had a "network of personal and family ties" that would facilitate its financial maintenance and favor its concealment. In addition, it did not have any real property or vehicle in its name, nor did it participate in any commercial company, so its location was complicated.

Five years on the run

The investigation that has just finished began in 2016, although it is calculated that he had already been on the run since 2015, when the Supreme Court confirmed the sentence that he had appealed from the Provincial Court. The last time he had spoken before a judge had been much earlier, because when the Pontevedra court tried him, he refused to testify. That appearance dates back to 2010, when he was arrested and related that the "loose" life that the Civil Guard had verified that he led was due to the fact that he entered from 50,000 to 60,000 euros a year from a clam nursery that his family had in Carril , in Vilagarcía de Arousa.

Irago is part of a family that the National Police indicates is "related to several of the main Galician drug traffickers." From 1992 until he escaped, he had been arrested five times in Spain for crimes related to drug trafficking and for resistance and disobedience.

Likewise, in 2007 he served a sentence for a crime against public health for heroin trafficking and in 2010 he was accused of this crime for which he was now being sought, which consisted of cocaine and heroin trafficking in Pontevedra and the O Salnés region. and in supplying drugs to one of the most active small-scale drug sales points in southern Galicia, a shanty town of O Vao .

The Civil Guard already considered that it was capable of moving several kilograms of heroin with each drug pass. Investigators had monitored her almost permanently for months in 2009 and 2010 and had wiretapped her defense, which she unsuccessfully appealed, and confirmed that criminal activity for which a decade later, at the age of 50, she would serve her sentence.

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