Image of María Teresa, “La Moledo”, taken during one of the police surveillances to which she was subjected.
Colombian María Teresa JC likes the exclusive shops of Puerto Banús (Marbella, Málaga), fine dining, luxury hotels and the best private parties. He celebrated it at his own home, Villa Elaumar, a huge 1,790 square meter mansion in the city of Marbella, worth around two million euros. Investigators on the Costa del Sol had been targeting her for more than a decade after her first husband, Michel Curtet, was killed in Portugal in 2005 with 6,100 kilos of cocaine. But until last September, the National Police were unable to arrest her after, after a long investigation, they found in her villa a kilo of practically pure cocaine, which served as a sample among the intermediaries she allegedly carried out with various gangs made up of Danes, Poles and Spaniards . The public prosecutor’s office is now demanding a ten-year prison sentence for the Colombian, who was born in 1973 and has four children and a granddaughter, for drug trafficking and belonging to a criminal organization, according to the indictment. Nine other people are accused in the same case and are being sentenced to between five and eight and a half years in prison. They are all in makeshift prison.
It was the French Anti-Drug Office that reported in 2020 on the Costa del Sol the existence of a group of people from Colombia and Spain with contacts with Polish citizens residing in Marbella and other Danish citizens residing in Barcelona, whose aim was to Introducing drugs into Northern and Eastern Europe. The information was processed by agents of the Special Organized Crime Response Group (GRECO) operating on the Malaga coast, who focused on the figure of María Teresa JC, who had previously been investigated because her environment was always linked to drug trafficking. She never fell, but her ex-husband Curtet, who was also involved in the White Whale case, did; and his most recent partner, a Dane who was sentenced to ten years in prison in Denmark for drug trafficking and is now missing. She, a CrossFit lover and also known as “La Modelo” because of her looks, had always survived her police work unscathed. She knew what she was doing and was believed to be an associate of the North American Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). “There are few women with so much power. “This is usually a man’s world,” an agent involved in the investigation last year told EL PAÍS, highlighting that La Modelo even had a personal trainer.
The agents followed her. They found that he lived a luxurious life “without accredited work” and lived in a villa in the exclusive urbanization of Valdeolletas – owned by a Panamanian company – with a cadastral value of over one million euros (according to the real estate portal Idealista). duplicates). It has two swimming pools, 3,000 square meters of garden space, a jacuzzi and many other amenities. “It’s like a Mexican drug trafficker’s house that you see on TV,” say sources in the investigation, recalling that years earlier an explosive device exploded in the same building during a French mafia war.
International contacts
Police discovered that the Colombian woman had close relationships with two people from Poland who could not be located – they have an active international search warrant – and she met with three other Polish citizens, according to prosecutors were allegedly allied with them in marijuana trafficking. At the same time, the main suspect in this case also had contact with a Dane living in Barcelona – who is suspected of wanting to bring drugs into his country – and three Spaniards living in Murcia and Alicante. They often traveled to Marbella to visit them and “were involved in the supply of narcotics”, according to the prosecutor’s accusation, which highlights that they tried to import hashish and cocaine into these provinces.
Police surveillance made it possible to observe “abnormal transports and maneuvers” of several vehicles traveling between the city of Osuna (Seville) and Coín (Málaga), driven by members of the Polish investigation team, some of which were rented with false documents. Everything pointed to drug trafficking and when the agents entered the property in Malaga on February 1, 2022, they found 138 kilos of marijuana worth just over 265,000 euros. On the same day, one of his compatriots was arrested in Rincón de la Victoria (Málaga) and two others on the A-7 motorway near the capital Malaga while transporting 45.4 kilos of the same narcotic in a Renault Kangoo van.
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All the evidence collected about the defendant pointed in the same direction: María Teresa JC, who allegedly acted as a liaison to get her out of Morocco and Colombia. She had the best quality of life of all the defendants. In the early hours of September 20 last year, a group of GRECO agents entered Villa Elaumar, where they found and arrested the Colombian woman, who at the time was accompanied by her partner, who was carrying false documents, and other relatives . those that separate the investigation from illegal activities. A block of cocaine weighing almost a kilo, with a purity of almost 81% and a value of more than 100,000 euros was found in one of his cabinets. It had the Rolls-Royce logo and a corner with a small bite. “It is believed that she was the one who gave her clients a test before formalizing the operations,” explain sources in the investigation, emphasizing that this discovery was crucial in landing the woman in prison. “It’s the first time he’s been arrested,” sources from the public prosecutor’s office cheer. On the same day, also early in the morning, new arrests were made, one in a house in Alhaurín de la Torre – a nine-millimeter Glock pistol was found during the search – and two more in Los Alcázares (Murcia) and Orihuela (Alicante). , where the Spaniards, who had met La Modelo several times in Marbella, resided. They had small amounts of drugs in their homes.
Against this background, the public prosecutor’s office has requested a prison sentence of ten years for María Teresa JC for two crimes: eight years for drug trafficking and two more for belonging to a criminal organization. It is the highest sentence in this case, as the remaining defendants are seeking prison sentences of between five and eight and a half years, some for the same crimes and others for illegal possession of weapons or using false public statements. Around thirty police officers are expected to testify in the trial, which has not yet been dated.
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