From Monday to Thursday, the Second Section of the Provincial Court of the Balearic Islands will try five people accused of smuggling cocaine into Mallorca and Ibiza as part of a criminal structure. One of the accused is a retired civil guard who had weapons and explosives seized in a town in Valencia.
The Prosecutor’s Office asks for them sentences totaling 54 years in prison for crimes against public health, membership in a criminal group, explosives deposit and illegal possession of weapons. It also asks to sentence each of them to pay a fine of 200,000 euros.
The Public Prosecutor’s brief describes a structured gang dedicated to large-scale drug trafficking, dedicated to introducing significant quantities of drugs, mainly cocaine, in Mallorca and Ibiza. Allegedly, the group operated at least from May 2018 until the same month of 2019, when it was dismantled by the police operation ‘Mimosín’.
At the head of this plot the Prosecutor’s Office places a 38-year-old man based in Valencia, who was allegedly in charge of managing the purchase of drugs and preparing the transports to the islands by camouflaging the substance in parcels, vehicles with hidden compartments or hidden compartments.
As his right-hand man, the prosecutor places the 63-year-old retired civil guard, who would have been in charge of the material transport of the substance in his own car with a hidden compartment. The Prosecutor’s Office reports several trips of the man by ferry to Palma and Ibiza, in which he allegedly transported cocaine to the other defendants.
Those, two men and a woman, are the people who were allegedly in charge of receiving the drugs and subsequently distributing them in Mallorca and Ibiza.
Weapons and explosives
In the house searches of the police operation, in addition to various quantities of drugs, a green plastic bag containing RDX, an explosive substance of great destructive power.
In addition, he was found in a storage room a pistol (which had been stolen from a property in Ibiza)a carbine, a shotgun with sawed-off barrels and a high-voltage electric fender; all unlicensed.
Meanwhile, in a villa in Torrent owned by the alleged leader of the organization the agents found an American fist combined with electric defense and a double-edged cutting dagger with an 8.5 centimeter blade.
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