The Prosecutor’s Office has requested 22 years in prison for Joakim Peter Broberg, stepson of the mayor of Marbella, Ángeles Muñoz (PP), as one of the alleged heads of a network that was responsible for sending drugs to northern Europe, in a letter from accusation where it is directed against 28 other people.
The letter, to which Europa Press has had access, points to Broberg as the author of a crime against public health, related to substances that do not cause serious harm, committed within a criminal organization of which he would be the “head”, for the one who demands 11 years in prison; another for bribery, for which he is interested in 4 years; and one of money laundering, for which he requests 7 years. In addition, he asks to impose a fine of more than 30 million euros.
According to the Public Ministry, during 2019, Broberg and Roberto Bayona, another of the accused, “delivered marijuana from Spain to France.” While the former “acts as the boss and is in charge of maintaining contacts with suppliers and customers”, Bayona “carries out the personal interviews, follow-ups and shuttle services that are necessary.”
The following year, Broberg “maintained contacts with different suppliers of substances such as the one known on EncroChat as ‘Canaryegg’, in order to supply substances from Morocco that would arrive by ship to Spain.” “It thus constitutes a criminal group with Bayona” and other defendants, “maintaining contacts with members of other networks (…) for the purposes of supplying substances,” details the Prosecutor’s Office.
Furthermore, within the framework of these alleged activities, Broberg “maintains contacts with Rafael Gallego, a local police officer in Marbella, who provides him with restricted information for exclusively police use, in exchange for cash, and the amount actually obtained, money and information that is exchanged in personal meetings to leave no trace.
To this, the Prosecutor’s Office adds that, to hide the origin of the funds obtained with which “he carries out his business and investment activities”, Broberg had the collaboration of his deceased father, Lars Gunnar Broberg, who was also prosecuted in this case. .
To carry out these alleged money laundering operations, Broberg would have as its “base of operations” two real estate offices in the Plaza de Marbella shopping center, according to the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
It was in October 2022 when the head of the Central Court of Instruction Number 6, Manuel García Castellón, prosecuted around thirty people, including Broberg and his father, for being part of an organization led by Swedish citizens who had exported large quantities of quantities of narcotics, especially marijuana and hashish, to the Nordic countries, especially Sweden.
In its letter, the Prosecutor’s Office warns that the crime of bribery allegedly attributed to Broberg and the local Marbella police officer must be tried by a jury.
Therefore, it is understood that, “even if it has not been done previously by mistake, it is appropriate to deduce testimony from such acts so that they can be tried by said jury court in the Provincial Court of Malaga, as they were allegedly committed in Marbella.”
