46 Accused will have to answer soon before Spain’s national court in Madrid. They are accused of, at the famous tourist area of Playa de Palma, a prostitution and money laundering ring set up. One of the main defendants of the former German Hells Angels Boss Frank Hanebuth, for the Prosecutor’s office calls to 13 years in prison.
Hanebuth – a former red-light size from Hanover and 26 other persons from the environment of the Hells Angels had been arrested in the summer of 2013 in Majorca. The police searched back then, in the Wake of a spectacular RAID numerous brothels and Fincas, to have belonged to the Hells-Angels-Empire. And they found sufficient evidence of illegal activities that now fill a thick indictment of the Prosecutor’s office. It is a long slat of alleged offences, such as formation of a criminal organisation, pimping, money laundering, extortion, falsification of documents and illicit possession of weapons.
Hanebuth is now in his home city of Hanover
Two years Hanebuth was sitting in Spain, in custody, in 2015, he was released on bail with reporting conditions. Currently, the 54-Year-old, with the permission of the Spanish judiciary, in his German hometown of Hannover. The Spanish Prosecutor called Hanebuth as one of the heads of the allegedly criminal activities, which are accused of the Majorcan Hells Angels offshoot. In the investigation files Hanebuth, probably until today the most famous German Rocker is arranged, even as the European head of the Hells Angels. Hanebuth had denied all the allegations.
Five years the investigations of the Spanish authorities lasted. The preparation of the criminal proceedings had attracted, because the investigators followed tracks through the whole of Europe. The investigators found international branches of the Mallorcan hell angel network, which led to the Luxembourg, Bulgaria, Switzerland and Turkey. Also, the German authorities supplied identification of material: German police suspect that Hanebuth moved in 2012 its activities to Mallorca, because it is the location in Hannover, where he is supposed to have the red-light district controlled, had become too hot.
Young women were forced into Prostitution
The Spanish authorities believe, meanwhile, that Hanebuth and the Hells Angels wanted to turn the holiday island of Mallorca in your business the center for drug smuggling, Prostitution and money laundering. The Rocker controlled at the time of the police operation in the year 2013, several night clubs on the Playa de Palma, the “ball man”-the beach. And they wanted to supposedly buy more brothels and even Hotels in the Holiday capital. From Eastern Europe of young women had been trafficked to Mallorca and from there to engage in Prostitution has been forced.
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the discovery documents, transcripts of wiretapped telephone conversations. This will support the suspicion that Hanebuth was one of the masterminds of the shops on Mallorca. Whether this Material is sufficient to condemn Hanebuth, will soon have the judge decide. The procedure will take place before the National court in Madrid, which is for the most serious crimes, such as Organized crime. With the end of the assessment process and the completion of the indictment, the trial is now approaching – a date has not yet been determined.
