The judge of the National Court
María Tardón
has prosecuted
José Ramón Prado Bugallo
, known as
Sito Miñanco
, and 45 other people for their participation in two operations with which they intended to introduce almost four tons of cocaine into Spain and for the creation of a network to launder the money obtained with the drug.
Among the defendants is Gonzalo Boye, a regular lawyer for
Carles Puigdemont
and
Quim Torra
.
The head of the Central Court of Instruction 3 attributes to him a crime of money laundering of drug trafficking committed within a criminal organization, and a continuous crime of falsification of an official document.
The minimum for this type of money laundering would exceed three years in prison - which would imply effective entry into jail - and could go up to six.
In his case, the judge estimates that he tried to recover the cash (889,620 euros) intervened in February 2017 from several implicated when they tried to get him out of Spain through the Barajas airport.
The destination was Colombia.
According to the indictment, Boye offered to present documentation simulating the legal origin of the funds to the money laundering prevention service.
The alleged business "did not present any commercial logic."
The bills of exchange you displayed were either already expired or had an inconsistent date.
"They were fictitious"
The judge concludes that Boye and two other lawyers, "knowing the existence of said bills of exchange and the fictitious nature of the commercial operation, designed and prepared the documents [...] and presented them in the sanctioning file knowing that they were false and that the sale and purchase operations were fictitious, with the aim of recovering the intervened money and hiding that it ultimately came from drug trafficking. "
For this reason, the judge prosecutes the three lawyers for the crime of money laundering within a criminal organization, originating from drug trafficking, in competition with a continuous crime of falsifying an official document.
The order attributes to the 45 investigated, according to their participation in the events, crimes against public health related to substances that cause serious damage to public health, concurring with the aggravating factor of notorious importance, committed within a criminal organization and of extreme gravity ;
money laundering;
continued crime of falsification of official document or illegal possession of weapons.
According to the Court, one of those investigated,
Manuel Pedro González Rubio
, a professional shooter, is prosecuted for two crimes of attempted homicide, a crime of assault on agents of the authority and injuries since when he was to be arrested, on the 5th On February 2018, he fired nine times at Civil Guard agents, wounding two of them.
"It only stopped in its action when the ammunition of the weapon with which it was shooting ran out," the car explains.
131 million bail
The resolution imposes different bonds to cover the eventual financial responsibilities that may arise from the facts and crimes attributed to each defendant.
Thus,
Sito Miñanco
and 25 others prosecuted for drug trafficking imposed a bond of 131.5 million euros.
The judge's order, which includes the request of the Anti-Drug Prosecutor's Office, explains that this investigation began in February 2016, when Sito Miñanco was serving a 16-year sentence in the Algeciras penitentiary for a crime against public health and He was already in third grade, which allowed him to work in a parking lot in that town.
The judge indicates that his activity continued to be the introduction and distribution of narcotic substance in Spain, since he maintained his contacts in drug supply organizations in South America and the necessary personal infrastructure, "a well-nourished group of individuals, who, in many cases They had already accumulated significant criminal experience in the drug trafficking business, and they were willing to participate in these operations, executing almost any activity in a reverential manner. "
The judge's order details that as a result of this investigation that took place during the years 2016 and 2017, it has been possible to identify two specific operations through which
Sito Miñanco
and his network intended to introduce huge amounts of cocaine into Spain.
They were those corresponding to the intervention of the ship
Thoran
, approached in 2017 when it was transporting 3.3 tons of cocaine and the seizure, in November of the same year, of a container of cocaine in the Netherlands that concealed another 615 kilos.
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