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Narcos, luxury hotels and a 'Ferrari': the path that led the police to the stepson of the mayoress of Marbella

2022-11-22T11:31:22.769Z


A follow-up to three Swedish traffickers landed in Barcelona led to Joakim Broberg, prosecuted for belonging to a "criminal organization"


Investigators search a property during Operation Scandinavia, which involved the arrest of Joakim Broberg and his father.

07:00 hours.

Five agents of the National Police station themselves in terminal 1 of the El Prat de Llobregat airport (Barcelona).

It is September 14, 2018 and, the day before, they have received a request for help from Sweden for an international operation against drug trafficking.

Investigators believe that three suspected drug traffickers will arrive in the Catalan capital, all of them with identity documents from the Nordic country: Hamo Boodahian, Chihab Lamouri and Milos Tadic, aged 25, 30 and 34, respectively.

His suspicions are confirmed when verifying that the three have boarded a Vueling plane from Madrid, which left at 06:45 and will land at 08:05 in Barcelona.

Thus began some investigation that soon after, and unexpectedly, would end up taking the investigation to Marbella (Málaga) and to the family of its mayoress, Ángeles Muñoz (PP).

The National Court has prosecuted Muñoz's husband and stepson four years later for being part of a drug trafficking and money laundering network.

She remains in office.

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The Court prosecutes the husband of the mayoress of Marbella for a drug trafficking plot

08:10 hours.

One of the police officers manages to make eye contact with the three suspects.

According to the summary, to which EL PAÍS has had access, the agent observes how they "leave the

finger

" (the walkway that connects the plane with the terminal) and "set off on their way to the baggage claim area."

After retrieving their luggage, the "targets" stop to smoke a cigarette at one of the airport's pedestrian exits, get into a taxi and head towards Barcelona.

Specifically, the Majestic, an exclusive five-star hotel located on Paseo de Gracia, where they arrive at 09:15.

Now it's time to wait, but they take advantage of idle hours to visit nearby Chanel, Dior and Hugo Boss stores.

12:45 p.m.

At this moment there is a key moment for the investigations.

The three alleged drug traffickers leave the hotel and walk to the intersection of Paseo de Gracia with Calle Mallorca, where they stop.

There, they are approached by "a man of about 45 years of age, with an athletic and strong complexion, 170 centimeters tall, brown skin, a round face and short brown hair", who wears on his left forearm "a tattoo, apparently of a virgin”.

Together, they enter a restaurant and stay until 2:00 p.m., when they leave and say goodbye.

The investigators then put the magnifying glass on that man, who they follow to a parking lot, where he gets into a red Ferrari 458 before getting lost in traffic.

Without knowing it yet, the police have found the key that will lead them to Joakim Broberg and Lars Gunnar Sune Broberg, stepson and husband, respectively,

The agents find out that that unknown individual has been in charge of reserving the room where the three alleged drug traffickers are staying.

He has done so under the name of Aboode Hadi Aboode, a false identity behind which Ahmet Celal Cinkitas, one of the main drug traffickers in Sweden, hides.

"Ahmet currently has Spain as his main base to commit these crimes," the authorities of the Nordic country quickly warn the Police, who continue to unravel the skein.

According to the summary, the investigators discover that part of his alleged criminal organization operates on the Costa del Sol. And Anders Nilsson, Cinkitas's uncle-in-law, has settled right at this point on the Peninsula.

The man identified as Ahmet Celal Cinkitas inside the Majestic hotel, captured by security cameras.

"Nilsson is considered by the Swedish authorities as the partner and leader, along with Cinkitas, of the drug trafficking organization in charge of supplying, through its contacts in Spain, the different networks that operate in Sweden," the agents underlined in a report.

A network that has left violent episodes behind it - it is linked to hitmen, shootings and assassination attempts - and which also connects with Ivan Cicak, another alleged criminal dedicated to hashish and cocaine trafficking, who had begun to invest in Marbella.

Precisely, Cicak and Nilsson will finally precipitate the fall of Joakim Broberg.

The investigators manage to establish connections between the Swedish drug traffickers and the stepson of the mayoress, also originally from that country.

On February 5, 2019, Broberg and Nilsson "meet" on a ferry between Tangier and Tarifa;

On March 28 of that year, the two of them and Cicak "coincided" in a place in the Plaza de Marbella shopping center, where the relative of Ángeles Muñoz had his "base of operations" and established the headquarters of a large part of his companies;

On May 23, Nilsson and Broberg "are seen" at a Starbucks... Too many "coincidences" for the agents, who first believe that the stepson helps in money laundering operations —they detect movements of money towards Cicak— "due to his position predominant in Marbella society and its dominance of the real estate business in the area, an attractive and luxury business,

in which large sums of money can be invested.

Later, however, they verify that he has gone further: "It has been verified, through the interception of his mobile phone, his involvement in drug trafficking", they highlight in his conclusions.

From left to right, the photographs of Anders Nilsson, Ivan Cicak and Joakim Broberg that appear in one of the police reports of the summary.

Although in the public eye he was a "well-known businessman who has lived in Marbella for more than 20 years", Joakim Broberg is, according to the judicial summary, the "boss" of a small group of criminals dedicated to drug trafficking based in the city from Malaga, who cooperates with other Swedish criminal clans and who is part of a chain to bring drugs (such as marijuana) to the Nordic country.

Born in Gothenburg in 1973, he himself "was in charge of maintaining contacts with suppliers and customers", reads a resolution by Judge Manuel García-Castellón, who summoned him last Thursday at the National Court to inform him of his prosecution.

Broberg is free.

His father, Lars Gunnar, 79, the mayoress's husband, also allegedly helped him launder money,

The political derivative

In the investigations, Ángeles Muñoz is not targeted, who in the midst of the scandal has expanded her declaration of assets in the Senate (she is also a senator) including, among other things, the ownership of a home in Sweden;

but the researchers do mention her figure.

According to the agents, the wiretaps reveal that Joakim Broberg has "great influence" in the Benahavís City Council, a neighboring town, and "this is due to his family relations with the Marbella councilor", who was previously deputy mayor of that other municipality.

"I would use this influence for his own benefit," they stress about the stepson, who boasts of his family's power: "We have the Junta de Andalucía, we have Marbella, we have Estepona, we have everything.

The city is our.

Basically, we have the whole fucking Andalusia ”,

eldiario.es

.

The mayoress of Marbella, Ángeles Muñoz, at a press conference. AYTO MARBELLA (Europa Press)

A few words that are downplayed in the Consistory led by Muñoz.

Sources in his team insist that Broberg is "a loudmouth, a brainless and a loose cannon."

For its part, the PP repeats that the PSOE has promoted a campaign to discredit the councilor.

She has distanced herself time and again from the investigation: “Neither my husband is in the procedure nor does the City Council have anything to do with it.

Nor, of course, me as mayoress, ”said the popular woman last October, according to Europa Press, before threatening to take anyone who related her to the case to court.

The PP has also ratified her as a candidate for the next municipal elections.

a structural problem

The existence of a complex drug plot in Marbella is not new.

The city has become a relevant center of operations for organized crime.

“We are overwhelmed”, emphasize police sources, who highlight the large number of nationalities of the gangs that operate in the area: from Colombians to Swedes, from Albanians to Poles or Dutch.

And it is not only the subordinates who settle on the Costa del Sol: also the bosses, who seek to enjoy luxury in an anonymous environment, while they control the supply of hashish, marijuana or cocaine thanks to the constant caches on the surrounding beaches. and the Campo de Gibraltar, or the proximity of the Port of Algeciras.

"And there are more and more, the number of groups does not stop growing," explain the same sources.

An agent of the Civil Guard monitors the registry of a house in Marbella during a police operation against money laundering from drug trafficking, last February. EUROPA PRESS (Europa Press)

According to sources from the Marbella Administration, the drug traffickers are taking advantage of a structural problem that the city has been experiencing since the period in which the Grupo Independiente Liberal (GIL) governed, led by Jesús Gil, and which ended with the dissolution of the Consistory in 2006 after Operation Malaya, when the Government put a manager in charge.

"Malaya served to cleanse the political class, but the base remained the same and there are vices that remain alive," these sources emphasize.

Muñoz became mayor in 2007 and, except between 2015 and 2017, he has governed until today.

"And the brick continues to rule the city," add these sources, which affect how the real estate sector is one of the favorites for traffickers to launder their money, as the mayoress's own stepson supposedly did.

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