Acquitted 21 defendants of a clan of the Italian Camorra in Spain – El Diario de Yucatan

         

     

MADRID, Spain. (EFE) .- The Spanish National Court acquitted 21 defendants of Clan Polverino Italian Camorra of laundering drug money in Spain to not be demonstrated “planning” for that money laundering or provenance of drug trafficking.

the twenty defendants, which include the alleged head of the clan, Giuseppe Polverino, were faced with a request from the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor 10 years and 4 months in prison, and only one of them, Vicenzo Panico was sentenced to one year and one month in prison for a crime of illegal possession of weapons, known today in a statement.

 

According to prosecutors, in Spain the clan made in the late 90s of the last century important real estate investments, including the construction of a resort, and estimated that the sale of properties of this promotion revenues amounted to more than twelve million euros.

in its judgment, the Spanish National Court explains now that there is no data to indicate that the funds invested in the construction of apartment resort on the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands, Atlantic) proviniesen of operations hashish trafficking laundering.

this defendants have provided “proof of the various commercial activities” to those engaged.

Nor there is evidence that operate through a “corporate network” aimed “to concealment of goods, but that there are” companies created with some prior to the facts, that has nothing to do with them. “

for the judges nor it was accredited “associative relationship between the various defendants, and even less than that was directed to specific criminal plan and default, since many of them do not know each other, others joined them family relationships , commercial or otherwise. “

the defense had asked for the acquittal of the accused when dealing with facts and tried in Italy and in Spain would prescribed by the time this trial period, besides not be evidence of the crime.

Giuseppe Polverino, alias O Barone, considered one of the main capos of the Neapolitan Camorra, was arrested in 2012 in Jerez de la Frontera (south) and extradited to Italy, where he is serving sentences They are adding up to sixty years in prison for mafia association and drug trafficking.