The Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia (TSJA) has annulled part of a resolution of the Provincial Court of Cádiz and has acquitted the father of a defendant for money laundering from drug trafficking, who had initially been sentenced to more than three years in prison. The Andalusian judicial body concludes that it has not been proven that he used funds from his son linked to drug trafficking to launder money through the purchase of two properties in La Línea de la Concepción.
According to the resolution, which Europa Press has accessed, the son is indeed sentenced to three years and five months in prison for a crime of money laundering from drug trafficking, while his wife is punished with three years and three months in prison for the same criminal offense.
The TSJA explains that the factual account of the Court concentrates the indications of participation in the laundering attributed to the son, the main accused, in the purchase of two homes located in La Línea. In its review of the evidence, the court emphasizes that the accused "has a complete work history of almost 40 years," so "it cannot be stated that he lacked a work background to justify possible increases in assets."
It also highlights that one of the homes mentioned in the convicting sentence was acquired through a public deed in November 2008, while the son's activities related to drug trafficking are situated in the years 2012 and 2014, according to the two convicting resolutions that weigh on him and that the Court takes as a basis to impute the crime of money laundering.
Regarding the second property in controversy, it is specified that it was purchased in December 2014 and that "the only reason to suspect a possible interposed purchase carried out with the son's funds would be that during the investigation it was confirmed that there, while the son was in prison, the son's wife lived," a fact that the accused himself acknowledged by admitting that he ceded it to her due to that situation.
Consequently, the TSJA concludes, when issuing an acquittal ruling, that "it cannot be maintained that this fact is sufficient to lead without further ado to the incriminating estimation that is intended, nor to establish as proven that he received from his son the amount of the property and used it for its payment as a means of laundering or recovering the funds to the legal market."