Justice resurrects the case of the drug trafficker who faked his death in Marbella

The case of Sergio Roberto de Carvalhothe Brazilian narco who faked his death for covid in marbella to avoid being prosecuted in Galicia with the identity he used in Spain, he begins to reactivate after arrest last June in Budapest (Hungary), where he was located with a Mexican passport in the name of Guillermo Flores Díaz, According to judicial sources confirmed to La Opinion de Málaga, the Pontevedra Court has already initiated the procedures so that the capo, in search and capture by order of a court in Vigo and pending cases in other countries, whether transferred to Spain and tried for the Titán III case, the name of the tugboat that the National Police intercepted in 2018 with 1,700 kilos of cocaine when it was sailing to Galicia. Precisely, last June it was learned that the fifth section of the Provincial Court of Pontevedra has sentenced 14 people to between 3 and 12 and a half years in prison for the stash. .

Then arrested in Marbella as Paul Wouter and as one of the main people responsible for the stash, the drug prosecutor asked for him up to 13 years in prisonbut his prosecution took a turn when his defense presented his death certificate dated August 29, 2020 and documents on his cremation at the Pontevedra Court. Despite police suspicions, they were considered valid. Shortly after, Brazil warned Spain that Wouter, who in Europe used a Surinamese passport that gave him Dutch status, was really Major Carvalho, so called since he was expelled in 2008 from the military police of the state of Mato Grosso del South for its relationship with drug trafficking and large-scale money laundering. Over the years he also earned another nickname, the Brazilian Pablo Escobar, for his ability to introduce 45 tons of white powder into Europe a year. The alerts went off late. The narco managed to vanish with a third identity after taking a flight in Lisbon just before a very harsh police coup against his organization in several countries, including Spain. Now, almost two years after Wouter’s faked death in an apartment on Calle San Juan Bosco in Marbella, the Spanish justice system wants to know who helped him die a lie on the Costa del Sol. The sources consulted added that the Court of Pontevedra, at the request of the Prosecutor’s Office, also plans to order that it be deducted Testimony to people who might have covered youalthough the sources warn that this matter will end up being transferred and instructed by a court in Malaga, as it is the province in which the false death occurred.

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From the Public Prosecutor’s Office, however, they have not been able to confirm to this newspaper that this investigation affects at least seven people; the Marbella doctor who signed the death certificate; a friend of the drug trafficker and a resident of Mijas who signed as a witness to the death; two members of the funeral home that took charge of the service; and three other employees of the Marbella crematorium, as reported by Correo Gallego.

Meanwhile, the Hungarian justice system has already received Brazil’s request for Carvalho’s extradition and hopes to make a decision this fall. Until then, he will remain detained in Budapest, the press office of the Budapest Metropolitan Court recently informed Efe. The Budapest Prosecutor’s Office reported in July that the detainee was accused in Brazil of drug trafficsmuggling, money laundering, murder and document forgery.

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