The largest trial held against drug trafficking in Spain ends up condemning Antonio Tejón, the leader of the Los Castaña clan, to six years and six months in prison as well as paying a fine of 2 million euros for committing a crime against public health due to hashish trafficking, in the aggravated subtype of notorious importance and use of a boat, and with the aggravating circumstance of recidivism.
The macro-trial, which took place in the Provincial Court of Cádiz, began in April of last year and placed more than a hundred people in the dock, of which 97 have been convicted and 47 acquitted of the crimes of which they were charged. had accused, as La Vanguardia has been able to verify in the ruling issued.
The Castañas were one of the most active hashish trafficking networks in Campo de Gibraltar and responded to the orders that the group's leader gave even when he remained in preventive detention for another matter related to drug trafficking. It was in February 2020 when the Civil Guard dealt this group a hard blow that left the organization blocked, although it was considered dismantled in November when it surrendered of its own free will and at the police facilities in La Línea de la Concepción, in Cádiz, the last of his lieutenants, nicknamed Noel.
The sentence, made public this Thursday, condemns Antonio Tejón as the author of a crime against public health for trafficking in hashish, in the aggravated subtype of notorious importance and use of a boat, and with the aggravating factor of recidivism, to a sentence of five years in prison and two fines of one million euros each. In addition, another year and a half of pressure is imposed on him for a crime of belonging to a criminal group.
On the other hand, the leader of the clan is acquitted of the crimes of smuggling and reception, for whom the prosecutor had requested a sentence of 15 years in prison and 204 million euros in fines. Seventy of the accused agreed to their sentences, which total 153 years in prison and fines worth 143.7 million.
On the other hand, as stated in the court ruling, the confiscation of the money, goods and effects seized is agreed upon, to which their legal destination will be given, as well as the destruction of the narcotic substances seized and the vessels that constitute prohibited goods. .
