This Wednesday, the National Drug Plan (PNSD) will organize the auction at the Royal Mint, in the center of Madrid. of a total of 22 lots of seized goods in operations against drug trafficking in recent years throughout Spain. Among these lots are assets of drug trafficker Marcial Dorado.
The state hopes to collect up to 4.5 million euros with all these assets, as shown in the file published by the National Company for Commercial Real Estate Management (Segipsa).
It includes details of goods seized in recent years from different drug traffickers, among whom is the historic Galician smuggler based on the island of Arousa.
Among them, according to National Police sources, There are developable properties in Villagarcía de Arousa (Pontevedra), as well as houses located in the parish of Carril, in this same municipality located in the Rías Baixas. The assets of the Arousan trafficker which will be auctioned this Wednesday have a value close to one million euros.
In addition, the State is auctioning the basement of a building on Mestre Mateo Street, Santiago de Compostela, as well as other properties in various parts of the province of Pontevedra. As judicial sources informed EL ESPAÑOL with knowledge of the auction revealed, Dorado’s descendants had been trying for years to put all kinds of obstacles in the way of the State to prevent this new auction of confiscated property from drug trafficker takes place.
His entourage tried, by various means, to stop the auction of these goods. In the end, they were unsuccessful, and these properties and lands in their home country will pass into other hands after this Wednesday.
For years now, the anti-drug prosecution This is one of the key elements of the project to recover assets from drug trafficking, so that they can be auctioned and the state collects money for them. This strategy is part of the National Medicines Plan, coordinated by the Ministry of Health.
For this reason, the organization responsible for the auction is the Société Commerciale Nationale de Gestion Immobilière de Patrimony SA.
The auction of each of the goods begins with a starting price. If they are released, they will be offered to the public again later, for a lower value than before. In fact, some of the assets that will be auctioned this Wednesday have been auctioned before, but no one was interested.
Dorado’s beliefs
Marcial Dorado, the drug trafficker and smuggler with whom Alberto Núñez Feijóo shared vacations on his yacht in the Vigo estuary and in the waters of Baiona, accumulates various sentences related to his activities in the world of drug trafficking. In In 2009, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison for drug trafficking, for trying to smuggle nearly eight tons of cocaine into Spain on board the boat. South Sea.
In 2016, the The Supreme Court upheld a six-year prison sentence and fine of 21.5 million euros that the National Court imposed on him the same year for laundering money from drug trafficking.
In January 2017, Dorado received his first prison permit in a long time and the lord of the island of Arousa was able to return to his native Galicia.
In October 2020, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Galician drug trafficker served three quarters of his sentence and managed to obtain that penitentiary institutions allow him to benefit from the five years remaining on him on semi-freedom, in obtaining the third degree regime.
Since then, he has benefited from this situation at the Social Integration Center (CIS) in La Coruña. He will complete his sentence in 2025.
Those interested will have the day On November 26, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., register and pay the necessary deposits to bid. On Wednesday the 27th, at half past ten in the morning, the auction will begin.
