This past Monday, April 8, the trial began against dancer Rafael Amargo, accused of an alleged crime of drug trafficking. It should be remembered that the choreographer was arrested on December 1, 2020 for this crime and was provisionally released without bail, only having to comply with several precautionary measures, such as attending the judicial body to sign every 15 days.
However, the Madrid Court ordered his imprisonment on November 3 because the bailaor had failed to comply with the precautionary measures. 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.
This Wednesday the oral hearing was resumed against the artist, his former producer and one of his partners for a crime against public health. In this session, the agents of the National Police who intervened in the surveillance of the apartment located at number 4 La Palma Street in Madrid, and in the searches of the home of Amargo and Eduardo de Santos, appeared.
One of the agents revealed a telephone conversation that Amargo had had with his producer, Eduardo de Santos, in which they talked about renting a storage room as a distribution point and camouflaging it as a fake laundry for clothes from theater productions. The dancer and his interlocutor had the intention of warning the neighbors that there was going to be a lot of movement of people as it was a place to wash clothes for plays. “They wanted to put in a washing machine,” the agent said.
Furthermore, the names of neither the dancer nor the music producer were not going to appear in the contract for the supposed laundry so as not to raise suspicions. The National Police agent also claimed that the two were talking about “in the storage room there was going to be a secluded area with “bags” in relation to the alleged drugs.”
