This Court of Alicante sat on the bench this friday fifteen so-called members an organization dedicated to the sale of marijuana and poppy to different European countries simulating shoe shipments. In the first session of the hearing, ten defendants, who were thought to have participated in these shipments, gave their statements. It is a job he did for a company that he was unaware of the contents of the pallets he was carrying and did not give a single information about it. “The fully enclosed and sealed pallets arrived and I just did the shipping,” he said. The remainder denied any connection to the shipment of marijuana or the cultivation of this drug. The remaining five defendants to testify will be present at the next session of the hearing, scheduled for February 6. This Investigation demands penalties ranging from eight and eleven years in prison for crimes against public health, criminal organization, electricity fraud and illegal possession of weapons.
The National Police investigation shows the defendants are part of a network. late 2018 and early 2019 will be allocated to the shipment of packages containing hidden drugs from Alicante to other European countries. front company listed as the sender of the shipments. Among the destinations were: Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Italy. According to the prosecution’s indictment, the group owned a number of properties, including chalets, warehouses and farms, where they both planted drugs and where the packages were packaged and shipped to an international shipping company.
In the indictment, it is claimed that the drugs were packaged in a mountain house. He departs by ship from El Moralet and another from Agost. Police confirmed that the company linked to the defendants shipped as many as 81 pallets to these countries between April and November of that year. Also, a framework farm in cannabis Sierra Mediana industrial area in Alicante. during the registration process made by; On February 14, 2019, approximately 70 kilos of cannabis was seized. The value of all seized drugs amounted to 304,272 euros.
The so-called ringleader of the network has a nickname Torch and until two days before the trial he was detained for another reason, for allegedly being a member of another network that brought cannabis by boat from Morocco to the province. During the pandemic process, the Police dispersed in their house, which is a mountain house in Diyarbakır. Departure from Cañada del Fenollar, a party with more than a hundred people. Defendant defended by lawyer Aitor Esteban Gallastegui, assured at the hearing that it was a construction company, and cut its ties to the drug shipment. He pointed out that some of the defendants were trying to get him to work.
One of these employees was the man who admitted to carrying pallets that the police intervened in, but he reassured. I didn’t know the content. “A company contacted me to pay for the postage,” he explained. But the packages he carries They came completely sealed and sealed. They said shoes, bags, toys, but I didn’t know what was inside.
Organization put GPS on pallets to locate shipments
He was the only defendant to admit any connection to the packages. The rest denied any connection to both shipments and the preparation of packages. The defendants argued that they committed murder on one of the farms allegedly used to package drugs. reform for a chalet one of them had just rented it. The defendants claimed that no drugs were found during the searches made at the bottling facilities. Vacuum packaging bags for prosecution only are the same ones used in the preparation of pallets. He was on the farm surveillance camera, attributable to the previous owners of the defendant living there. “They weren’t even operational,” he said.
Various amounts of marijuana were found inside these pallets during multiple searches by the police at the shipping company. There was organization GPS devices to track shipments, compartmental vehicles designed to store packages containing drugs and frequency inhibitors, according to the prosecution’s indictment. There was also puppets that they appear as owners of some of the organization’s assets to conceal the identity of network members. One of the defendants emerged as the owner of up to four vehicles.
Invalidity
The hearing began with the request for the annulment of the defenses demanding the annulment of the operation records, arguing that the defendants did not have the right to take measures. Lawyer Roberto Sanchez He stated that he had seen a minibus unloading material on one of the farms and that he had been requested to search for no other reason than to say that he could not even identify the occupant of the house. Among the lawyers demanding this annulment, J.Oaquín de Lacy, Mari Paz Alarcón and Moisés Candela.