Ana Maria KamenoKnown as the ‘Queen of the Husband’, she accepted her statement this Friday regarding the events described by the anti-drug prosecutor in the National Court case against the crime syndicate.Miamis‘ and therefore pleaded guilty to drug trafficking, money laundering, and possession of illegal weapons, despite not accepting the 39-year prison sentence they requested. A total of 58 defendants, including Cameno, have reached agreement with prosecutors, but nine of them have partially agreed.
The hearing, held at the National Court’s San Fernando de Henares headquarters, started more than two hours late precisely because of last-minute deals closed by the Public Ministry. In the building where this macro experiment was carried out, 81 defendants They are dispersed into three different rooms connected by videoconference, with unusual security measures in place with a large presence of agents of the National Police Service.
In this hearing, the court is trying the members of this criminal organization led by the brothers. Alvaro and Artemio López Tardon. Crimes attributed to them range from money laundering to illegal weapons possession, drug trafficking, document falsification, against the Public Treasury or money counterfeiting.
The National Court Prosecutor’s indictment, available to Europa Press, shows that the organization is “extremely complex, powerful, labyrinthine, intertwined, diverse and meticulously planned”. “permanent and structured”, that it has an international projection and is divided into “at least four major sectors or branches”.
López Tardon brothers
Despite the delay at the start of this first day, prosecutor Manuel Pérez Veiga urges the accused to question the defendants, who have agreed on the recognition of the facts. Therefore, besides Cameno, he questioned his former partner, David Vela – who admitted to the same facts as him – and more than fifty others, including Laurentino Sánchez, one of the organisation’s other relevant men.Bay‘.
They confirmed one by one that they accepted the facts gathered by the Public Ministry. indictment, but not all of them accepted the penalty reflected in this provisional qualification. Because their confession of the truth once may lead to mitigating reasons for the penalty demand.
Although they have passed through the pulpit 58 out of 81 defendants, Time will tell if one of the leaders of the organization, Artemio López Tardón, agrees with the Prosecutor’s office, which the prosecutor has requested 46 years in prison for drug trafficking, money laundering, against the Treasury, forgery and forgery of documents. currency unit. His brother, Álvaro López Tardón, is serving a prison sentence in the USA. 150 years