New twist in the so-called ‘Operation Codax’. This Friday, April 12, the trial against Rafael Amargo, accused of an alleged crime against public health and drug trafficking at his home in the capital, ended. In this last session, the artist’s statement took place, who at all times has defended his innocence. “They have destroyed my career,” he confessed. In addition, the artist also recognized that he had made mistakes. “I should have come to sign as I promised, I recognize my mistake,” he asserted.
For its part, the Prosecutor’s Office asks the judge for nine years in prison for the dancer and his former producer, Eduardo de Santos, and six years for his partner, Miguel Ángel Batista for a crime against public health. At the end of the session, the Provincial Court of Madrid decided to release him provisionally without precautionary measures pending a final ruling.
After testifying at the oral hearing, Rafael Amargo returned to the Soto del Real prison, but it is expected that his release from prison will occur this afternoon, around 6:30 p.m. Let us remember that the choreographer was arrested on December 1, 2020, accused of selling and buying drugs between April and December 2020 at his home in the Madrid neighborhood of Malasaña. Amargo was provisionally released without bail, having to comply with several precautionary measures, such as attending the judicial body every 15 days to sign.
However, the artist failed to comply with his precautionary measures and the Provincial Court of Madrid ordered his imprisonment on November 3. Rafael Amargo’s defense tried to obtain provisional release again, but the judge again rejected the request considering that there was a risk of flight.
In his statement this Friday, the choreographer assured that “the accusations of the Prosecutor’s Office were false” and that “he had no need to dedicate himself to anything other than the performing arts.” ”They have done me a lot of harm, seeing the front pages in the newspapers, everything filtered by the Prosecutor’s Office… They have ruined my life,” he declared.
This past Wednesday, one of the police officers who intervened in the surveillance of the artist’s apartment and in the subsequent searches, revealed a telephone conversation between Amargo and Eduardo de Santos in which they talked about renting a storage room as a distribution point and camouflaging it. like a fake laundry to wash clothes for theater productions. Information that the dancer denied, ensuring that the rental of the premises was expressly for theatrical purposes and not for the crimes of which he was accused.
