Nen Barral will sit on the bench on Friday for the tobacco smuggling case that ruined her career 22 years ago.

2023-08-29 13:35:00

The Prosecutor’s Office requests ten and a half years in prison for the former mayor of Ribadumia in a hearing that has already been suspended twice

29 ago 2023 . Updated at 1:35 p.m.

If 22 waiting years were not enough, some jinx seems to be hovering over the trial of the smuggling case that in 2001 ruined the political career of Jos Ramn Barral, Childthe man who held the mayorship of Ribadumiabetween 1983 and the moment of his arrest, first by Alianza Popular and then under the initials of the PP. Scheduled for April 11, the start of the hearing it has already been suspended twice. On one occasion, because several of the lawyers involved in the process had assignments of higher priority. Nothing strange, given that there were provisional prisons at stake, while the Barral case accumulates cobwebs since the days when statements were recorded on video tapes. In another, because the lawyer defending the main defendant could not be present. On Friday, the Fourth Section of the Provincial Court of Pontevedra try to start the procedure again, at ten o’clock in the morning.

Nen Barral, four decades investigated without convictions and two open cases at the age of 79

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The Prosecutor requests for Nen Barral ten and a half years in prison and a fine of fifteen million euros. Next to him, eleven other people will sit on the bench, accused of having integrated a very active plot in the 90s, to which a presence on several continents and moles on the Internet is attributed. Civil Guard and the Customs Surveillance Service, with telephone calls that, according to the investigation, were even answered from the Ribadumia town hall. The confiscation of a cache of contraband tobacco in the port of Vigo ruined everything. Barral, who is considered a history of the smoke business in the estuaries, has never been convicted of it. A second cause hangs over him, which is instructing the National Court.

Filed in: Ribadumia National Court Port of Vigo