Rafael Amargo will be tried in June for the alleged sale of drugs in his apartment during 2020

MADRID, 21 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The bailaor Rafael Amargo will sit in the dock next June for the alleged commission of a crime against public health for the alleged sale of narcotic substances to third parties "persistently" in exchange for money at his own home.

The oral hearing will be held on June 7, 8, 9 and 12 at the Provincial Court of Madrid, legal sources have reported. The artist faces a tax request of 9 years in jail.

Amargo was arrested on December 1, 2020 along with his partner and two other people in the framework of 'operation Codax', whose name means raven in Latin and is nicknamed that way because of an image of Amargo on his Instagram in which he appears with some wings of this species of bird.

After declaring, those arrested were released with precautionary measures such as the withdrawal of their passports, the prohibition to leave the national territory and the obligation to go to court every fortnight.

In his indictment, the prosecutor requests the same penalty for Juan Eduardo S.B., Amargo's production assistant, for allegedly acting "jointly" with the other defendant in the purchase and subsequent distribution of said substances.

In his account, the prosecutor reports that, during the months of April and December 2020, both "had been dedicating themselves in a concerted and persistent manner to the distribution of narcotic substances, among other methamphetamine, to third parties in exchange for money."

To this end, the two defendants acquired the substance "jointly" from the different suppliers, to later distribute it between them and sell it to third parties.

Thus, the dancer allegedly sold narcotic substances to people who came to his Madrid home and in others "he sent the substance to the place where the client indicated, for which he used his trusted man, the also accused Manuel Ángel B.L. , another of Amargo's partners, knowing what he was carrying, after making the corresponding delivery, returned to his home to deliver the money obtained from the sale."

By way of example, the Prosecutor's Office reports that on April 27, 2020, Manuel Ángel for whom he is asking for six years in prison, was surprised by the Police when he was preparing to deliver a bag of substance to a client, in exchange for 50 euros. which turned out to be methamphetamine; substance that he had picked up minutes before from Amargo's home, "where he had to return to deliver the money."

Likewise, as a result of the surveillance devices that were established over his home, the national police officers were able to observe "how numerous people came who, after accessing it and remaining inside for a few minutes, hurriedly left again, the agents proceeding to identify two of them, intervening a narcotic substance that had been acquired at said address, drawing up the corresponding arrest records".

By an order issued on December 1, 2020 by the Investigating Court number 48 of Madrid, the entry and search of the defendants' homes was authorized.

In the case of the dancer, the agents intervened 3 cans containing Popper substance (alkyl nitrites), a small bag containing a substance that turned out to be phenylethylamine with a net weight of 0.089 grams and a bottle containing 6 milliliters of GBL with a market value of 314.19 euros in its sale by grams.

In the case of Juan Eduardo, the agents found a bottle containing a substance that turned out to be methamphetamine, with a net weight of 4,466 grams and a purity of 76.4%, with a market value of 115.67 euros in its sale for grams; a bag containing a substance that tested positive for ketamine, with a purity of 50.4%; and MDMA with a purity of 6.9% with a total net weight of 0.185 grams with a market value of 18.5 euros when sold per gram.