The head of the police operation of the Special Response Groups for Organized Crime (GRECO) that followed the network of José Ramón Prado Bugallo, ‘Sito Miñanco’, between 2016 and 2018 in the so-called operation Mito defined him in the first session of the judgment against him as “a great leader.”
The drug trafficker from Cambados arrived at the headquarters of the National Court of San Fernando de Henares (Madrid) on his own, to sit on the dock of the accused in the trial in which The Prosecutor’s Office demands for him 31 years and six months in prison and a fine of 950 million euros for crimes against public health, money laundering and continued falsification of documents.
The Public Ministry accuses Prado Bugallo (69 years old) of commanding operations to launder money from cocaine trafficking while he was in the third degree, working in a parking lot in Algeciras, in compliance with a previous 16-year sentence.
The events that will be tried since yesterday before the Criminal Court presided over by Alfonso Guevara date back to 2017, when five people heading to Bogotá (Colombia) were detained in Barajas with 889,620 euros in the double bottom of a piece of luggage. of hand that, according to two of those investigated, belonged to Miñanco. The ‘human couriers’, according to the accusation, contacted the lawyers Gonzalo Boye (defender of former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont) and Jesús Morán Castro to prepare the documentation.
The head of the police operation that followed the organization between 2016 and 2018 after receiving an alert described in court, at the request of the Prosecutor’s Office, the structure of the Sito Miñanco organization.
Barajas’ money
He stated that it is a “very professional” organization. “They don’t drink, they don’t get drunk, they work continuously,” described the police chief, who spoke of Prado Bugallo as the “great leader” who will go down in the history of Spain because “there has never been an organization in Spain as powerful as the his”. He explained that he had experts at all points of the chain, from those who manufactured the boats to collect the drugs to the lawyers who helped them falsify documents to “recover amounts through promissory notes that they had used to justify the money coming from other operations.” .
In this sense, he explained the alleged participation of Gonzalo Boye and the also lawyer Jesús Morán Castro to falsify documents with which to justify the 889,620 euros that were seized in 2017 at the Barajas airport from five people from the alleged organization when they were heading to Bogotá ( Colombia). Funds that investigators soon linked to Sito Miñanco.
The police chief of the operation that followed the former tobacco smuggler for two years explained in the first session of the trial that, although he was serving a previous sentence, he continued to have control of the entire organization and “was obsessed” with communications and security. of these. Specifically, the Police monitored the plot through call interception and geolocation.
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