Madrid (EFE).- The National Court faces this Tuesday, after more than a month of hearing, the final stretch of the macrotrial against 81 accused of the drug trafficking and money laundering gang known as the Miami with the final conclusions of the prosecutor, who they will entail reductions in sentences with respect to those provided for in their provisional petitions.
The Prosecutor’s Office accuses them of introducing at least 7.5 tons of cocaine into Spain between 2007 and 2011 and laundering huge amounts of money, among other crimes.
At the beginning of the trial, 66 defendants reached agreements with the prosecutor to confess the facts in exchange for being sentenced to lesser sentences, which in the case of one of the main defendants, Ana María Cameno, known as the Queen of Coca, and Her then husband, David Vela, supposes that they accept a sentence of five years in prison, compared to the 39 years and nine months that the prosecutor requested for each one.
Ana María Cameno is the only defendant in this trial who is in prison, since she is serving a 16-year prison sentence that the Court imposed on her in another case, for the distribution of one hundred kilos of cocaine.
Another of the alleged leaders of the gang, Artemio López Tardón, denied in the trial his participation in drug trafficking operations, but he did confess to money laundering, for which reason the request for a sentence from the Prosecutor’s Office will also be reduced, which initially requested for him 46 years and six months in jail.
The considered leader of the gang, his brother Álvaro López Tardón, does not sit on the defendant’s bench in this trial because he is already serving a 150-year prison sentence for these events in the United States.