The Prosecutor's Office asks for 47 years in prison for Gao Ping for the 'Emperor case'

Gao Ping, in a file image after one of his appearances at the National Court CLAUDIO ÁLVAREZ

The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office is requesting 47 years and three months in prison for the businessman of Chinese origin Gao Ping as the alleged leader of the mafia plot dismantled by the Police in 2012 in Operation Emperor. The Public Prosecutor's Office accuses Gao Ping of 13 crimes - criminal organization, threats, illegal detention, laundering, falsification of documents, two of bribery and six against the Public Treasury - and asks that he be fined 77.52 million euros. In the letter, he also accuses 106 other people, a good part of his close environment, including his wife, Linzhen Yang, for whom he is asking for 30 years and three months in prison. Among the accused is also the porn actor Ignacio Jordá, known as

, for whom he is requesting 11 years in prison and a 50 million fine.

Anticorruption details that the investigation, which began in 2010, revealed the existence of a macro-organization structured in three interrelated networks. The former, over which Gao Ping exercised tight control, imported nearly 1,000 containers of Chinese-made bazaar items a year. Much of its content was not declared when it arrived in Spain, so its subsequent sale generated a huge amount of cash. The investigation revealed that the 224 bank accounts belonging to the members of the different groups received more than 60 million euros between 2009 and 2012, the origin of which the Prosecutor's Office links to crimes of smuggling and tax fraud. Of this amount, about 37 million were eventually sent abroad.

There the second plot came into play, made up of intermediaries who put the Gao Ping mafia in contact with citizens residing in Spain who had accounts in tax havens with high balances who wanted to repatriate them without declaring them to the treasury. The cash money from Gao Ping's network was handed over to the latter, while the latter's funds left their accounts abroad and headed to China in the form of laundering known as “compensation”. In this second group, presumably led by the Belgian citizen François Leiser, participated, among others, the businessman Rafael Pallardó and his partner, María José Jordá, Nacho Vidal's sister, who used the latter's company to evade money.

The third plot consisted of four groups of Chinese citizens who, like Gao Ping's, evaded funds to China.

In their case, they did it through the massive sending of false remittances from immigrants, by road to other countries of the European Union to send it to the Asian country from there or with human couriers who hid the tickets in their body and luggage the money when they flew to China.

The three presumed leaders of this last branch were in settlements in this country and, until now, their whereabouts are unknown.