The head of the police operation of the Special Groups for Response to Organized Crime (GRECO) who followed the network of José Ramón Prado Bugallo, “Sito Miñanco”, between 2016 and 2018 as part of the so-called Mito operation, the defined during the first session of the judgment against him as a “great leader”.
The drug trafficker from Cambados arrived alone at the headquarters of the National Court of San Fernando de Henares (Madrid), to sit in the dock in the trial in which The prosecution is demanding 31 years and six months in prison and a fine of 950 million euros against him. for crimes against public health, money laundering and continuous falsification of documents.
The public prosecutor accuses Prado Bugallo (69) of leading money laundering operations from cocaine trafficking while he was in third degree, working in a parking lot in Algeciras, in accordance with a 16-year sentence from prison.
The events that will be judged since yesterday before the criminal court presided over by Alfonso Guevara date back to 2017, when five people heading to Bogota (Colombia) were arrested in Barajas with 889,620 euros in the double bottom of hand luggage. which, according to two of those interviewed, belonged to Miñanco. The “human couriers”, according to the prosecution, contacted 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 prosecution, the structure of the Sito Miñanco organization.
Barajas’ money
He said it was a “very professional” organization. “They don’t drink, they don’t get drunk, they work continuously,” described the police chief, who described Prado Bugallo as a “great leader” who will go down in the history of Spain because “he “There has never been an organization in Spain as powerful as his.” He explained that he had experts at every level of the chain, from those who made the boats to collect the drugs to the lawyers who helped them falsify documents to “recover sums through promissory notes which they had used to justify money from other operations. . “.
In this sense, he explained the alleged participation of Gonzalo Boye and lawyer Jesús Morán Castro in the falsification of documents to justify the 889,620 euros seized in 2017 at Barajas airport from five people from the organization suspected as they were heading towards Bogota (Colombia). Funds that investigators quickly linked to Sito Miñanco.
The police chief of the operation that followed the former tobacco trafficker for two years explained during the first session of the trial that, although he was serving a previous sentence, he continued to control the entire organization and was “obsessed” with communication and security. Specifically, police monitored the plot through call interception and geolocation.
