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The prosecution has asked for the nine suspects of the criminal gang, the tenth is missing, sentences as long as 18 years in prison.
Apr 23, 2018 - 1:06 PM
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The prosecution has asked for the nine suspects of the criminal gang, the tenth is missing, sentences as long as 18 years in prison.
Apr 23, 2018 - 1:06 PM
Brian Colin Charrington, the presumed leader of the international network and the main suspect will attend the Alicante Provincial Court today, with the eight other suspects. All are accused of crimes against public health, document falsification, belonging to a criminal organisation, secrecy and money laundering.
Briton Charrington was one of the ten most wanted across Europe, and was captured in Calpe and other locations on the Alicante coast with the other members in July 2013.
The operation was developed by Greco (Organised Crime Special Response Group) and the National Police and initially 13 were arrested, seven in Spain and six in Venezuela
The agents found some 200 kilos of cocaine, half a million euros in cash, top of the range cars and six leisure boats.
The presumed leader of the gang was owner of a dozen of luxury properties on the Alicante coastline and had served time for drug trafficking in England, Germany, France and Spain – where he was arrested in 1997 with four tons of hashish.
According to police investigations, said properties worked as a hiding place for most of the most wanted fugitives search by the UK police.
The judgment comes with the evidence supplied by the British Agency against Organised Crime, the Venezuelan Anti-drugs National Office, and the America Police Community, the French police, the Argentinean Naval Prefecture, the Colombian police and the Brazil Federal Police.
The investigation started in January 2010 and centred on the sentimental partner of Charrington, who had been going out with a French drug runner, Alain Coelier, who was shot dead six months later, in July of the same year with his bodyguard in La Nucía (Alicante)
Condemned for kidnapping
Coelier was condemned at the time to 12 years in prison for his part in the kidnapping of the girl Melodie Nakachian, daughter of the magnate Raymond Nakachian and the singer Kimera, in Estepona (Málaga) in 1987.
The hearing against the network led by Charrington opened today Monday at 9.30am in the tenth section of Alicante Provincial Court and will continue until next Friday.
The Prosecution accuse the gang of introducing to Spain a consignment of cocaine on a leisure yacht via Altea port, drug which was decomposed, before being redistributed inside a house in El Albir (Benidorm)
Consulted judicial sources said the nine accused suspects are currently at liberty for these crimes, and have been formally asked to attend court today
Brian Colin Charrington - archive photo
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Briton Charrington was one of the ten most wanted across Europe, and was captured in Calpe and other locations on the Alicante coast with the other members in July 2013.
The operation was developed by Greco (Organised Crime Special Response Group) and the National Police and initially 13 were arrested, seven in Spain and six in Venezuela
The agents found some 200 kilos of cocaine, half a million euros in cash, top of the range cars and six leisure boats.
The presumed leader of the gang was owner of a dozen of luxury properties on the Alicante coastline and had served time for drug trafficking in England, Germany, France and Spain – where he was arrested in 1997 with four tons of hashish.
According to police investigations, said properties worked as a hiding place for most of the most wanted fugitives search by the UK police.
The judgment comes with the evidence supplied by the British Agency against Organised Crime, the Venezuelan Anti-drugs National Office, and the America Police Community, the French police, the Argentinean Naval Prefecture, the Colombian police and the Brazil Federal Police.
The investigation started in January 2010 and centred on the sentimental partner of Charrington, who had been going out with a French drug runner, Alain Coelier, who was shot dead six months later, in July of the same year with his bodyguard in La Nucía (Alicante)
Condemned for kidnapping
Coelier was condemned at the time to 12 years in prison for his part in the kidnapping of the girl Melodie Nakachian, daughter of the magnate Raymond Nakachian and the singer Kimera, in Estepona (Málaga) in 1987.
The hearing against the network led by Charrington opened today Monday at 9.30am in the tenth section of Alicante Provincial Court and will continue until next Friday.
The Prosecution accuse the gang of introducing to Spain a consignment of cocaine on a leisure yacht via Altea port, drug which was decomposed, before being redistributed inside a house in El Albir (Benidorm)
Consulted judicial sources said the nine accused suspects are currently at liberty for these crimes, and have been formally asked to attend court today
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