Mohamed Jamil Derbah will not be able to leave Tenerife after obtaining provisional release following the acceptance of his appeal at the Provincial Court of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The Lebanese businessman and investor, detained along with seven others for allegedly leading a criminal organization involved in drug trafficking, money laundering, document forgery, and bribery based in the south of Tenerife, has had to pay a bail of 100,000 euros to make this provisional release effective.
Additionally, the Sixth Section of the Provincial Court, which issued the aforementioned order on May 29, requires the businessman to report weekly, and as many times as summoned by the judicial authority to sign at the judicial headquarters (whether the instructing body or any other), as well as the surrender of his passports, if he has several.
The Provincial Court considers that the risk of flight has decreased considerably upon verifying Mohamed Derbah’s “personal, family, social, and work ties” in Tenerife, where he has resided for over 30 years with his wife and children, and where he operates his business as a freelancer and has businesses. Moreover, it notes that during the searches, a large quantity of drugs suggesting large-scale trafficking was not seized, thus mitigating the perceived severity of this crime in his specific case.
The Lebanese investor Mohamed Derbah, considered the leader of Tenerife’s main mafia clan, is now on provisional release since Thursday evening, following a decision made by the Provincial Court that accepted an appeal against the unconditional prison order decreed by Judge Carmen Rosa Pino Abrante, who is instructing the case, from court number three in Arona. In an operation against organized crime driven by the Internal Affairs unit of the National Police, Derbah was arrested on April 30 along with seven others, two of whom are police officials, accused of drug trafficking, money laundering, document forgery, and bribery. The network also implicates the former head of the Judicial Brigade and the National Police’s Drug and Organized Crime Unit on the Island, Francisco Moar.
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