The prosecutor’s settlement, to which Europa Press had entry and ratified final Tuesday, lowers the sentence for all of the defendants, six of them in pretrial detention. They are sentenced to between 2 and eight and a half years in jail, which represents a major discount in sentences in comparison with the preliminary indictment of the prosecutor.
The sentence that’s handed down within the coming weeks will embrace the settlement reached between the prosecutor and the protection legal professionals. The best discount in sentence falls on the alleged chief of the Kikos, who has seen the sentence lowered from 15 years in jail to 6 and a half years.
Mitigating for addictions
The tremendous of 5 million euros that was requested additionally decreases to 1.6 million. The ringleader is subjected to the certified mitigation of dependence on alcoholic drinks supplied for in article 21.2 and 66.1.2 of the Penal Code in relation to the crime in opposition to public well being.
Three of the defendants are subjected to the analogical mitigation derived from the consumption of a narcotic substance, supplied for in artwork. 21.7, 21.1 and 20.2 of the Penal Code in relation to crimes in opposition to public well being.
In their assertion, the defendants restricted themselves final Monday to admitting to the prosecutor’s questions the information earlier than the court docket and expressing their addictions to cannabis, cocaine and even heroin.
Pursuant to the settlement, they admitted working the biggest retail drug outlet in Cañada Real from an armored substandard housing from which they equipped 200 doses a day.
The prosecutor accuses them of crimes in opposition to public well being, within the type of substances that trigger critical injury to well being, in an quantity of infamous significance, belonging to a legal group, possession of prohibited weapons and deposit of weapons.
armored doorways
The defendants have been detained within the so-called ‘Operation Maíz’ by which the biggest drug gross sales level in Cañada Real and in the whole area, strategically positioned and fully bunkered with robust safety measures, was dismantled in March 2020.
The whole amount of cash seized in all of the entries and searches carried out amounted to 526,453.37 euros from the criminality. While the seized narcotic substance was meant for distribution to 3rd events and has a worth on the illicit market of 1.5 million euros.
In the indictment, the prosecutor states that in plot 20 PB F of the Cañada Real, the investigating power needed to break down three armored doorways to entry the inside. At that point, the defendants who have been inside began a fireplace with the intention to stop the Agents from seizing the substances, cash and results that have been there.
‘Los Kikos’, the successor clan of ‘los Gordos’
During the surveillance, the brokers have been capable of confirm that the purpose of sale positioned on the cattle route was ruled by the Kikos clan, successors of one other previous and well-known clan dismantled years in the past, that of the Gordos. It had a construction that employed some people as ‘water carriers’ and which, in flip, given the continual motion of individuals and automobiles, had a valet parking service for patrons.
Other members of the group have been positioned on the entry to the plot to determine which patrons or customers might enter and at last others managed entry to the property. Inside the parcel there have been different individuals who disbursed the drug inside a bunkered room.
The investigations additionally made it doable to confirm that behind these people was the ‘quantity two’ of the group to oversee their actions and that every one of them had some sort of direct relationship with the leaders of the group.
A drug grocery store with indicators and costs
After finishing the investigations, the police started the simultaneous entry and search of 5 properties, two in Madrid, one in Alcalá de Henares, one in Torrejón del Rey (Guadalajara) and one other in Illescas (Toledo).
During the searches it was doable to confirm that the purpose of sale positioned within the Cañada Real functioned as a grocery store, since that they had hanging posters saying the merchandise and costs, different posters with the schedules of the buses that flow into by means of the place and areas to accommodate clients or those that determined to devour the drug on the spot.
In the search carried out within the La Cañada home, the brokers discovered robust safety measures that the investigators had put in, corresponding to video surveillance cameras and accesses with a number of armored doorways put in consecutively.
Despite the truth that a few of these arrested set the room on fireplace to make the medicine and cash disappear, the brokers managed to recuperate it. The bogs needed to attend to some individuals, however none significantly.
In the whole operation, a complete of 520,000 euros in money, 19 kilos of cocaine, virtually three kilos of cannabis and heroin, 18 actual quick firearms with virtually 2,000 cartridges of various calibers, equipment to deal with narcotic substances (hydraulic press and machine vacuum packaging machine), in addition to numerous jewellery, luxurious watches and 11 automobiles, a few of them high-end.