Anti-drug calls for nine years in prison for Puigdemont's lawyer, Gonzalo Boye, for laundering funds from 'Sito Miñanco'

The Anti-Drug Prosecutor's Office has requested nine years and nine months in prison for Gonzalo Boye, Carles Puigdemont's lawyer, for money laundering and forgery for the clan of José Ramón Prado Bugallo,

.

For the drug lord, the prosecutor's office asks for 31 years in prison.

The indictment is directed against 48 people and half a dozen companies related to the attempt to introduce four tons of cocaine into Spain.

The financial demands of the prosecutor are also high.

For Boye, he requests a fine of 2,700,000 euros for money laundering (corresponding to five years and nine months in jail) and another 420,000 for falsifying an official document (with four years in prison).

In total, 3,120,000 euros.

In the case of

, the fine exceeds 950 million euros for crimes of drug trafficking within a criminal organization, money laundering and counterfeiting.

In its indictment, released this Tuesday, Antidroga explains that after the investigation carried out in this case, it was possible to identify two specific operations through which

"and the network he led intended to introduce enormous quantities of cocaine into Spain": a October 2017 when 3.3 tons of cocaine was transported and which ended with the arrest of seven crew members, and another one a month later, when the apprehension of a container of cocaine in the Netherlands that concealed 615 kilos of the same substance was achieved.

Airport

As for Boye, the investigation places him as responsible for the attempt to recover 889,620 euros from the clan that the Police had seized at the Barajas airport, hidden in a suitcase belonging to one of the members of the organization who was going to fly to Colombia.

According to the Prosecutor's Office, the organization contacted Boye and another lawyer, Jesús Morán Castro, to prepare documents that justify the legal origin of the money and thus achieve its return.

Specifically, the Prosecutor's Office affirms that Boye and other lawyers, in order to "prove the illegal origin of the seized money", drew up purchase and sale contracts for bills of exchange.

"The alleged business did not present any commercial logic," says Antidroga.

Boye "presented said sales contracts in the administrative file knowing that they were false and that the sales operations were fictitious, in order to recover the seized money and hide that it came from drug trafficking."

Regarding the actions of the network, the prosecutor explains that Sito Miñanco was in prison at the time of the events, despite which he coordinated the operation.

It adds that the drug lord made drug trafficking his " continuous and stable

", since he was not only serving a sentence for a 2006 sentence, but also chained a previous sentence and "lacked the slightest will to rehabilitate and reinsert himself." in society".

The indictment indicates that the network dismantled in the Mito operation was "eminently personalistic."

"Each and every one of the decisions was adopted or supervised by him, who, despite the limitations represented by his penitentiary regime, exercised extreme control over the activities of his subordinates, in particular, regarding the confidentiality of the communications they maintained between they".

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

Know more