The destination was always Medellín (Colombia), shipments were always on Wednesdays and the packages contained toys. Suspicious coincidences that put the Civil Guard on the trail of a possible case of drug trafficking that, finally, has ended with two sentenced to six years in prison.
The Superior Court of Justice of Madrid (TSJM) has confirmed the sentence to six years in prison and a fine of more than 400,000 euros imposed on two men of Colombian nationality for a crime against public health.
The magistrates have dismissed their appeals in a sentence, to which EFE has had access, which ratifies the one issued by the Madrid Court, which also acquitted both defendants of the crime of belonging to a criminal organization and exempted four other people from criminal responsibility. who sat on the bench.
In that sentence, already confirmed by the TSJM, the judges annulled the entries and records of various properties in the towns of Rivas, Arganda del Rey and Villalbilla (Madrid), and Seseña (Toledo).
It was the agents of the Judicial Police at the Adolfo Suárez Madrid Barajas airport who became suspicious after detecting in a random control the possible presence of drugs in a package destined for Colombia, which finally turned out to contain 798 grams of MDMA (methamphetamine). .
It was the end of October 2020 and, little by little, the agents discovered that since June 10 of that year, the same company that sent that package had sent 15 more, which always followed the same pattern: they were toys that were sent to each other every month. Wednesday bound for Medellín (Colombia), always with the same sender and the same recipients.
After setting up a surveillance device, the Civil Guard discovered that one of the defendants was preparing to sell a “quad” that concealed four plastic bags with more than three kilos of MDMA, and several pink, purple, blue and orange pills of this same drug.
One of the defendants argued before the TSJ that it was not proven that there were drugs in other shipments because a letter rogatory to Colombia was not processed, in addition to denouncing the break in the chain of custody.
The magistrates dismiss their arguments and underline the lack of specification of the moment in which “it could have caused the rupture of the chain of custody”, in addition to rejecting that his addiction to drugs could mitigate the sentence, given that the sentence of instance already indicated that the “influence” that this could have “in the commission of the crime” was not recorded.
