The Prosecutor’s Office requests 4 years in prison and an 8 million euro fine for a businessman from Tomiño whom he accuses of money laundering from drug trafficking, and who will be tried, along with his ex-wife, his mother and his nephew, this Thursday at the fourth section of the Provincial Court of Pontevedra.
The Public Ministry attributes to this businessman, who owned a high-end car dealership in A Guarda, a crime of money laundering from drug trafficking, while it considers his family members to be necessary collaborators in the commission of that crime.
The main defendant was sentenced for drug trafficking by a German court in 1991 and, more recently, the Court of Pontevedra sentenced him to 8 years in prison and a fine of 354,600 euro for the same crime.
As a consequence of this criminal activity, the Prosecutor’s Office maintains, this businessman has been enriching himself and has carried out various investments and operations with the money obtained, “establishing a whole network of intermediaries, companies and other diverse legal forms, with the sole purpose of concealing and preventing the product of that illegal activity from appearing at some point in his name.”
In his indictment, the Prosecutor also points out that, with this procedure, the defendant allowed the entry of capital from drug trafficking into commercial traffic thanks to the concealment of its origin and thus managed to “create an appearance of legality of the income of that illicit origin”.
The other three defendants, his ex-wife, his mother and a nephew, “participated in various legal transactions that always tended to hide the true ownership of the assets, by pretending to be the owners of those that really belonged to the accused,” and all this “being aware” of the illegal origin of the money.
As he points out, the nephew participated in the constitution of a real estate company. Regarding the woman, he points out that he also agreed to appear as the owner of various assets paid for with illicit money.
According to the public ministry, between 2007 and 2011 the official and legal income of the businessman, according to the Treasury data, never reached 20,000 euro per year; In the case of his ex-wife, his salary barely reached 8,000 euro per year, the same as his mother’s.
For all these reasons, it considers the businessman the author of a crime of money laundering from drug trafficking and requests that he be sentenced to 4 years in prison and pay a fine of 8 million euro. For the rest of the defendants, he asks for 3 and a half years in prison and a fine of 8 million.
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