He also blames Ángeles Muñoz’s stepson for leading part of the organization and buying restricted data from a police officer.
MADRID, 24 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The judge of the National Court (AN) Manuel García Castellón has prosecuted Lars Gunnar Broberg, husband of the current mayor of Marbella, Ángeles Muñoz (PP), for the alleged crimes of money laundering and criminal organization in the framework of an alleged network led by Swedish citizens who reportedly exported large amounts of drugs from Spain, especially marijuana and hashish, to the Nordic countries, especially Sweden.
In the indictment, to which Europa Press has had access, the head of the Central Court of Instruction Number 6 prosecutes 32 people and summons Lars Gunnar and his son to testify on November 17, starting at 10:00 a.m. and by videoconference, from the investigating courts of Marbella, as it is the closest court to their homes.
And it requires him to post a bond of 25 million euros to ensure the responsibilities that may arise from this cause, warning him that if he does not do so in time, he will order the seizure of his assets in an amount sufficient to cover that amount.
For the investigating judge, there are indications that would prove that Lars Gunnar, of Swedish origin and 79 years of age, participated “actively” in this alleged criminal organization. He was arrested in February 2021, but was then provisionally released without precautionary measures and has no criminal record in Spain.
After the investigation, the judge of the AN has concluded “with a degree of serious probability” that this organization would have trafficked drugs to “obtain large and rapid profits”, would have laundered money and would have hidden it in third countries and “tax havens” to through figureheads or using “legal juridical instruments to create economic or commercial structures”.
Led by citizens of Swedish nationality settled in Spain together with members of German and Polish nationality, the organization would have dedicated itself to drug trafficking, mainly hashish and marijuana, which they would have exported from Spain in large quantities.
According to García Castellón, the structure of the investigated criminal organization would be made up of “different groups or branches, with multiple links between its members.” “Although, although they sometimes work together or collaborate, it is common for them to carry out their activities independently,” he points out.
And it places Lars within the group led by Joakim Broberg, his son. His operations center would be an office that also includes his father’s companies as a registered office, a space that would be used as a “cover for different real estate businesses.”
The amount of money laundered by father and son would amount to 7.3 million, through the use of shell companies for operations such as the sale or construction of houses, or the sale of gold and precious stones in exchange for money in foreign banks.
In this context, father, son and a partner would have agreed in the summer of 2019 to create a company with which “to be able to invoice and thus introduce illicit funds into the legal circuit.”
Around the same dates, Joakim Broberg, stepson of the Marbella mayor and to whom is added a crime against public health, would have set up another company for opaque real estate operations “with the knowledge and supervision of his father.”
Among the thirty defendants is a local police officer from Marbella, who is accused of having provided restricted information exclusively for police use to Lars’ son “in exchange for cash”, according to the indictment.
“To facilitate” the “concealment of the origin of the funds”, Joakim Broberg would be surrounded by “true specialists in financial operations” such as the use of tax havens”, according to the investigating judge, who points out that he would have several nationalities, would make “constant trips” to Switzerland, receive money from Montenegro and carry out economic transactions with the United States.
In the car, dated September 29, the judge ratifies the provisional release also for Joakim and imposes 27 million bail on him.
