Prosecutor’s Office between national audience requested additional penalties 751 years in prison for 69 defendants He is accused of being a member of a Mediterranean-based criminal organization, where more than 3,500 kilograms of cocaine were seized in different operations carried out in Spain and Romania in 2018 and 2019. Among the defendants is the former head of the Drug Enforcement Unit. He faces Francisco Javier M., Chief Inspector of the National Police Against Drugs and Organized Crime (UDYCO) in Alicante. Request for 15 years imprisonment for their crimes drug trafficking, bribery and revealing secretsAs stated in the indictment presented by the prosecutor in the case this week. The prosecutor’s office demands punishment in addition to prison sentences 217 million euro fine for each defendant.
Alicante’s former anti-drug chief, More than 80 people were detained in the operation called “Operation Beautiful”. Carried out by the Special Response Group of the National Police against Organized Crime in September 2019 –Greco Levante– and the Prosecutor’s Office requested his conviction for collaborating with the drug organization provide them with information and advice about how to behave.
This police officer is also being tried in a separate case for money laundering, separate from the first case involving 35 other defendants. There was land Luxury car business in Dénia laundering money and transporting drugs. The defendants in this other case are linked to the laundering of three and a half million euros allegedly arising from drug trafficking.
four branches
According to the public accusation, the organization was structured as follows: four majors united with each other and each acting in a specific area In Alicante and Dénia. Prosecutor’s Office locations four defendants as ringleaders He wants the main branch (those living in Alicante, Galicia, Barcelona and Valencia) and each of them to be punished. 18 years in prison for drug trafficking.
He demands 12 years in prison for 11 defendants and 10 years in prison for 54 defendants. In addition to a 10-year prison sentence for drug trafficking, the former drug enforcement chief’s case demands a two-year prison sentence for bribery and a three-year prison sentence for revealing secrets. Likewise, another investigator is being sentenced to two years in prison. illegal possession of weapons.
One of those considered to be the ringleader of the network is Alicante businessman Juan Andrés CP, who is also awaiting trial for the largest tax fraud involving luxury cars in Alicante. The other three are Galician José Constante PB, Swede Jonas SF and Sergio FJ, who is considered the president of the network in Valencia. According to the Public Ministry, these four people “negotiate, organize, plan and financing large-scale cocaine shipments They come from South America to introduce them to Spanish and European lands”.
The organization had a second branch consisting of eight defendants. negotiate import mostly with cocaine dealers South America.
Transactions
A third branch, consisting of four defendants, was responsible for “carrying out the transactions of narcotics” that the organization managed to smuggle into Spain, and the other 18 branches subject to investigation belonged to a fourth branch, which aided the previous ones and acted as support for the terrorist organization. conduct of operations, different criminal activities. Likewise, the second one gave direction in turn “crime subgroups “Their main function is the distribution of drugs on a smaller scale, support functions in negotiations, transportation, logistics, intermediation, financing and other functions assigned to them,” according to the public charge.
In the 152-page indictment, the prosecutor notes the participation of each of the defendants in the activities of the network and, regarding the involvement of the former anti-drug police chief in Alicante, states that the criminal organization continues these activities. “relationship with police authorities”“They take advantage of this situation to gather information and news and carry out their criminal activities with impunity.”
HE Chief Inspector For years, Francisco Javier M. was in charge of the Drug and Organized Crime Unit (UDYCO) of the Alicante State Police and, according to the accusation he made, “Connection to leading members of the criminal organization being investigated“, in particular Juan Andrés CP, one of the four alleged ringleaders, and three others investigated in this case, with multiple records of drug trafficking and other crimes, two of whom were implicated by the former anti-drug chief as collaborators of the police.
Former chairman of UDYCO, according to the Public Ministry He had constant contacts with Juan Andrés C. and normally occurred after the leader made trips to meet with other leaders of the criminal organization. The prosecutor stated that the defendant, “using his high and privileged position in the Police”, “gave information about whether there was an investigation against him or any member of the organization and gave advice on how to act.” Likewise, he adds, he plays a key role “in the preparation and execution of the operations carried out.”
On the other hand, the indictment mentions nearly fifty drug dealing and money delivery cases identified in the police investigation, and seven incidents in which a total of just over 3,500 kilos of cocaine were seized.