Gonzalo Boyelawyer of the former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, will sit from this Monday on the bench of the National Court alongside the historic Galician drug trafficker José Ramón Prado Bugallo, Miñanco Siteof course money laundering in the Operation Mythrelating to the introduction of almost four tons of cocaine.
The trial, which is scheduled to last until January 30, 2025, will bring together almost fifty defendants at the headquarters of the National Court in San Fernando de Henares (Madrid).
This will be the second time that Boye faces trial as a defendant in the National Court. The first resulted in his sentence to 14 years in prison, in 1996, along with two other members of the Chilean Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) for collaborate with ETA in the kidnapping of the Spanish industrialist Emiliano Revilla.
On this occasion, the Anti-Drug Prosecutor’s Office requests for him nine and a half years for allegedly laundering profits from drug trafficking operations of Sito Miñanco, whom until the moment of his arrest represented as a lawyer.
The lawyer arrived this Monday at the National Court supported by twenty Junts leaders, for whom the trial against him for alleged money laundering is “a setup with clear political motivations.”
“It is a new example of the lack of democratic quality of the Spanish judicial leadership, as well as the non-application of the amnesty law,” denounced the Junts spokesperson, Josep Rius, in statements to journalists at the doors of the headquarters. of the National Court in San Fernando de Henares (Madrid).
According to the spokesperson for the Catalan party, Boye would not be sitting in the dock today if he were not Puigdemont’s lawyer.
In addition to Rius, the former president of the Generalitat has come to the doors of the National Court Quim Torrathe Junts spokespersons in Congress and the Senate, Miriam Nogueras and Eduard Pujol, respectively, and the deputy Josep Cruset, among other leaders.
Boye has also received the support from a group of lawyers who carried a banner with the motto “Never surrender” and with whom he spoke for a few moments before entering the judicial headquarters.
For the Galician drug trafficker, Antidrug requests a sentence of 31 and a half years in prison for allegedly directing a network that intended to introduce almost four tons of cocaine into Spain, and paying a fine of more than 950 million euros. He accuses him of a crime against public health, another of money laundering and another of forgery.
For these last two crimes, the prosecutor also accuses Gonzalo Boye and demands at least 3.1 million euros finefor contributing, along with two other lawyers, to proving the legal origin of the 889,620 euros, which they seized from the network on February 6, 2017 through contracts for the sale of bills of exchange.
That day several of those investigated – alleged couriers that Sito Miñanco used to send the money to Colombia – were arrested at the Barajas airport (Madrid) when they were carrying 889,620 euros hidden in the bottom of their luggage.
In the strategy to access the seized money, they prepared a series of documents to simulate fictitious purchase and sale operations “and hide that it ultimately came from drug trafficking,” the prosecutor states.
Due to these facts, the General Secretariat of the Treasury imposed a penalty on these lawyers. fine for serious violation typified in the Money Laundering Prevention Law.
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