Koldo García, the former ministerial advisor under investigation by the Supreme Court and who remains in prison without bail along with former minister José Luis Ábalos, has interceded with the Ministry of Health for a Swiss pharmaceutical company called Moonpharm AG to obtain authorization from the Spanish Agency. … of Medicines and Health Products (Aemps) to establish itself in Spain. An article in the Argentine newspaper La Nación claims that this laboratory was actually a cover that he intended to use. a Mexican cartel – a branch of the Sinaloa cartel – settle in Spain.
As detailed, one of the members of the Calvete clan, Alejandro Calvete, was responsible for creating a network of medical cannabis laboratories in Spain, Switzerland and Portugal to achieve this appearance of legality. In reality, they wanted to produce and market drugs on a large scale. But the national police ended up arresting 14 people who were ultimately sentenced in 2024 by the Guadalajara provincial court. During the police operation, 100 kilos of marijuana, 37 kilos of cocaine, weapons, luxury cars, jewelry and cash were seized.
But among those arrested during this operation, the police did not manage to find Calvete, nor when they broke into his home in the suburbs of Madrid, which is why since then he has been sought and captured.
Koldo García’s connection with these Mexican drug traffickers, according to La Nación, lies in the attempt of the former advisor to the former minister Ábalos to obtain this authorization for MoonPharm AG. To this end, he reportedly met Víctor Francos, then chief of staff of the Ministry of Health, in September 2020.
The MoonPharm document
The Argentine newspaper also reports that Vozpopuli published that on this subject, after the meeting, Koldo sent an email to Francos with an attached document: “The undersigned, MoonPharm AG, based in Switzerland and holder of the Swissmedic authorization for the production of medicines and active ingredients, intends to ask the prestigious Spanish Medicines Agency the procedure to follow to open a branch in Spanish territory and be able to obtain the same authorizations obtained in Switzerland.”
However, it is currently unclear who was the person who spoke with Koldo García on behalf of MoonPharm AG and whether the ministerial advisor was aware that a Mexican cartel could be hiding behind the laboratory for which he had arranged. What they point out is that this licensing operation failed.
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