The Swedish citizen Lars Gunnar Broberg, husband of the mayoress of Marbella, allegedly participated in at least three money laundering operations from drug trafficking, as concluded by the Criminal Chamber of the National Court. The higher instance to judge Manuel García Castellón has confirmed the prosecution of Joakim Broberg, stepson of Ángeles Muñoz, for leading a drug trafficking organization and laundering his profits. His father and mayor’s husband, Lars Broberg, would have participated in at least three of these laundering operations, but the procedure is no longer directed against him due to his state of health.
Among those investigated for whom the prosecution is confirmed is the aforementioned Joakim Peter Broberg, Muñoz’s stepson, for crimes of criminal organization, crime against public health in the form of toxic drugs, narcotics or psychotropic substances that do not cause serious harm to health , in a quantity of notorious importance and committed within a criminal organization, as well as a crime of money laundering from drug trafficking.
The resolution that the Chamber now confirms includes how Joakim, a Swedish citizen residing in Marbella (Málaga), was the head of the organization and maintained contacts with suppliers and customers, while another of the defendants, his subordinate, Roberto Bayona, carried out personal interviews, follow-ups and necessary shuttle services. Specifically, it was noted that during 2019, Broberg and Bayona made deliveries of marijuana from Spain to France.
According to the indictment of Central Court 6, dated September 29, those investigated formed a complex structure to launder funds of illicit origin with relationships of hierarchy and discipline in which Joakim Broberg was the head, holding a preponderant place.
The Chamber’s order details the six laundering operations attributed to him, at least three of them together with his father Lars Broberg, also prosecuted in this case and for whom the procedures have been suspended for health reasons. The resolution figures the amounts laundered at 7,300,820 euros.
The Court of Appeal dismisses the arguments of Joakim Broberg’s defense in which he claimed the lack of evidence to support his prosecution. The Chamber considers that the order contains an adequate and sufficient factual description regarding the crimes with which he is charged and that the degree of participation of the now accused will be determined in the oral trial.
Regarding the crime of money laundering, the Court argues that the extensive account included in the indictment contains sufficient “logical, plural and concatenated evidence of criminality that includes a series of economic operations, in many cases devoid of meaning, from a economic and financial point of view, which, moreover, are not justified by the ordinary commercial operations of the legal or physical persons that are described therein, with outflows and inflows of funds from tax havens, where several of these mercantile companies reside. .
The Chamber adds that the origin of the funds “is located in some alleged operations of illicit trafficking of narcotic substances, therefore, for the moment, there is sufficient evidence with the necessary quality to integrate the indictment at hand, related to some behaviors supposedly related to a crime of money laundering, specifically based on six economic operations widely described in the appealed resolution”.
Of the total number of defendants, seventeen appealed, of which the prosecution of all of them has now been confirmed, except for Francisco Moreno Verdú, whose appeal has been fully upheld, and Fran Ulf, who has been upheld in full. partial.
