The Ministry of Defense has departed from its functions to Jesús Fernández Bolaño, the captain of the Civil Guard of the Port of Valencia, in provisional prison since December for alleged crimes of belonging to Criminal Organization and Drug Trafficking and who the National Court places as “investor” of different cocaine entry operations.
In an order signed by the Undersecretary of the department directedin active duty situation Without destiny and affection for the Valencia Command, it goes to the situation of suspension of functions, ”according to article 92 of Law 29/2014 regulating the regime of the Civil Guard personnel.
This article contemplates that any body member in their circumstances will remain immobilized in the position occupied in the ranks, in a maximum period of six months or as long as the preventive detention lasts. After this time or in the event that the judge agreed to his provisional release, he will be the general director of the Civil Guard, Mercedes Gonzálezwho decides if it extends the prohibition of requesting and obtaining destination until there is a final sentence or the cause is filed. Bolaño’s lawyer, Vicente Sanmartínhe has assured this newspaper that they plan to resort to the decision.
From Venice to Miami
The agent, captain of the Civil Guard and who was in charge of the anti -drug surveillance of the port of Valencia, denies any relationship with drug trafficking. He does, however, recognized that he had a container business to sell “lawful” merchandise abroad, such as pillows and mattres an inheritance charged. Of the second phone they found in the records, he says, it was to be able to talk to his lover without raising suspicions.
However, for the National Court the investigations point in another direction: Bolaño was a “Essential piece” of an organization dedicated to drug trafficking and even “investor” of some of the operations. And would have facilitated the passage and exit of the container port of different groups “knowingly” that they carried cocaine.
In return, according to the order for which the judge agreed to entry into prison, he received «Give and economic benefits». For example, “cash deliveries” and trips paid by the alleged organization led by Guillermo T. are mentioned to different destinations such as Las Palmas, Dominican Republic, Venice or Miami, “with their family or other people.”
Bolaño knew in detail the operation of the port of Valencia, where he was in charge of the fiscal inspection a decade. And the researchers believe that he used it to design a “procedure” that allowed the entry of containers; He instructed the members of the alleged criminal organization on “the way of proceeding from police and customs inspections and controls” not to take a false step; and provided «Confidential and Restricted Information»On police investigations to ensure drug collection” without risks “or, at least, minimize them.
Hidden in papayas
With regard to his role as an alleged investor, the car details that Bolaño “put money for the realization of the import operation of 1,140 kilos of cocaine, hidden in a load of papayas”, which was seized in Beneixida (Valencia). And that also invested in another white dust entry operation “whose execution had already begun at the time of arrests and records” by the Internal Affairs Service (SAI) of the Civil Guard, in December.
According to the resolution, cocaine was going to be transported in Flat Rack type containers, appropriate for the transport of heavy and “modified” load so that they would have “a hidden compartment.” The plan was to send them to Panama or other Latin American countries “containing pools and the return would come, supposedly empty, but loaded with cocaine in the double background.”
When the operation was exploited, “a trial container, without cocaine load, had already been sent” and was already empty in the port of Valencia; Another container was on a ship with the 1,140 kilos of cocaine; and “another or other” more “shipments” had been sent with swimming pools and were in the foreign port “, where the drug should be charged.
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