Antonio Alfonso Diéguez, ‘Soji’, spoke this Wednesday via videoconference to express his agreement with the agreement reached between the parties. On a big television screen, he received two years in prison and a fine of 7,500 euros for offenses against public health, in the form of substances causing serious harm.
He was arrested on April 7, 2016, accused of being linked to a cocaine “cooking” laboratory in a chalet in the town of Illescas in Toledo. The National Police then announced that they had found 22 kilos of cocaine, while in the prosecutor’s indictment the sum of the quantities seized barely reached one kilo: 933.7 grams.
This was not “Soji’s” first trial before the Toledo Provincial Court. In December 2019, after admitting the facts before a popular jury, he was found guilty of the crime of his friend and former partner Cándido Español López on September 4, 2015. That Friday they met to talk about a debt of drugs close to 65,000 euros and, during a discussion, he shot him three times.
He ended his life in a cottage in the Los Pradillos urbanization, also in Illescas, and hid the body, burying it in the garden of the house, at number 17 Toledo Street. He then diluted the corpse in a barrel with acid, caustic soda and ammonia, and dumped this corrosive mixture onto several dirt roads. Of Candide’s skeleton, barely a bone was found.
Almost two years later, already arrested, he gave his version and was subsequently sentenced to 12 years and 3 months for the crime of homicide. For this crime, he remains in prison, but he was not the only one at this trial with a sentence under his arm. His wife and her friend Daniel were found guilty of receiving stolen goods.
In fact, the two friends met this Wednesday in the same room, where Daniel accepted a sentence of one year and seven months in prison, in addition to a fine.
The hearing was postponed last week because Juan Pablo, one of the five defendants, was unable to attend after being involved in a road accident while on his way to court in Toledo.
This morning, he showed ABC in the street the state of his vehicle, completely damaged after overturning, before appearing in court. Juan Pablo, a Colombian “cook” expert, who advised extracting cocaine arriving from South America impregnated with different materials or dissolved in liquids, admitted the facts. A repeat offender, he was sentenced to two years in prison and a fine of 7,500 euros by applying the mitigating circumstances of excessive delay, like the rest of the defendants, and drug consumption.
The last two defendants, José Luis and Miguel Ángel, also accepted and accepted a year and seven months in prison, as well as a fine of 4,000 and 3,700 euros, respectively.
However, they did not ask like Antonio Alfonso, who, on the television screen, asked for clarification if he could replace his fine of 7,500 euros with work for the community. Your lawyer will now have to request it.
