vThe prosecutor has thought-about that there have been nice undue delays in a case by which the occasions have been dedicated greater than 12 years in the past
The National Court has resumed this Tuesday the macro-trial of this group which is attributed to the introduction into Spain between 2007 and 2011 of no less than 7.5 tons of cocaine and the laundering of giant quantities of cash, amongst different crimes, some information for which its chief, Álvaro López Tardón, is already serving 150 years in jail within the United States.
For his brother Artemio, the prosecutor has lowered his request for a sentence from 46 to fifteen years in jail for having acknowledged the crimes of cash laundering, in opposition to the general public treasury and doc falsification, though he denied having participated in drug trafficking, which he continues to attribute to him The prosecutor.
Other of the primary defendants, Ana María Cameno, the Queen of Coca, and her then husband, David Vela, for every of whom the Prosecutor’s Office requested 39 years and 9 months in jail, have accepted 5 years in jail on account of the settlement achieved by the defendants who’ve confessed all of the information to the prosecutor.
Ana María Cameno is the one defendant on this trial who’s in jail since she is serving 16 years in jail that the National Court imposed on her in one other case, for the distribution of 100 kilos of cocaine.
According to what the law enforcement officials who carried out the investigation mentioned on the trial, this lady had a cocaine laboratory of dimensions “by no means seen earlier than” on a farm in Villanueva de Perales (Madrid).
The prosecutor has thought-about that there have been nice undue delays in a case by which the occasions have been dedicated greater than 12 years in the past.
However, he believes that it is vital that with the consent of the vast majority of the defendants, convictions have been secured and, above all, the restoration of not solely 26 million euros in money but in addition buildings, chalets, autos and different results that will attain 40 million euros, all of which can go to the nationwide anti-drug plan and, subsequently, to a social vacation spot.
Throughout the listening to, a number of nationwide law enforcement officials have recalled that the plot was uncovered by the American Sharon C., then the girlfriend of Álvaro López Tardón, with whom he lived in Miami, who denounced him in revenge for the ill-treatment he obtained.
Sharon C. revealed that the drug that Ana María Cameno obtained in Spain from South America was despatched to her by Álvaro López Tardón and revealed that he and his brother Artemio hid a big amount of cash of their chalet on Las Azaleas avenue, within the Madrid district Hortaleza, the place the Police truly discovered 20 million euros in a gap on the bottom, 5 million in a partition and multiple million within the storage.
Among the defendants who’ve accepted sentences in trade for confessing all of the information are these thought-about leaders of the assorted branches of the group.
Specifically, the brothers Raúl and Víctor Juárez Smith, three years and two months in jail, once they initially confronted requests from the Prosecutor’s Office for 27 and 30 years, respectively. In his case, the prosecutor has additionally taken under consideration the extenuating circumstance of drug dependancy.
Likewise Lauro Sánchez Serrano, 4 years and 6 months in jail, when the prosecutor requested originally of the trial for him 33 years and 9 months.
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