In its fight against drug trafficking mafias, the Andalusian parquet increases investigations into the causes linked to money laundering focus on their “illicit assets” and “do more harm” to drug traffickers. This was expressed on Wednesday by the Ana Tárrago, Supreme Prosecutor of Andalusiawho also demanded that sanctions be strengthened for “logistics” associated with the drug world.
After delivering the Prosecutor’s report from 2023 to the president of the Andalusian Parliament, Jesús Aguirre, and before presenting it to the Justice CommissionTárrago explained in statements to journalists that the drug trafficking mafias They are no longer only linked to drug trafficking, but also to illegal immigration (drug traffickers) and work and sexual exploitation.
The Andalusian attorney general also warned that drug traffickers are becoming more numerous. “greater violence”whether against other drug traffickers, with the aim of “dominating the territory”, or against the security forces and agencies of the State, as was the case with the assassination of two civil guards overthrown by a Narcolancha in the port of Barbate (Cadiz).
“Where you can really do more damage “is in the assets that were obtained illegally,” he stressed, regarding the crimes for money laundering. And for drug traffickers, who are used to going in and out of prison, it is worth spending a few years behind bars if their fortune is still intact when they get out. Things change if they lose their properties and their way of life.
Tarrago also transferred the request of the prosecutors of increase penalties for logistics crimes and “in everything related to the logistics of drug trafficking”, such as petaqueo (transporting gasoline and supplies to drug ships on the high seas) or even “electric fluid fraud linked to drug trafficking.”
It should be noted that the Andalusia, Ceuta and Melilla Prosecutor’s Office warned in its report that the courts of the province of Cádiz, especially the mixed courts and those of Campo de Gibraltar, Barbate and Chiclana de la Frontera, are “overwhelmed” by macro cases related to drug trafficking and “notorious deficiencies in personal resources.” All this, added to the “anachronistic” procedural systemcauses “major delays” which result in causes paralyzed or prescribed and with “significant reductions in penalties” for unjustified delays.
