THE LARGEST PRIVATE AIRPORT IN SPAIN, DRUG TRAFFICKING AND HIDDEN TUNNELS. ONE OF THE LARGEST SECRETS OF THE CLAN BOTÍN

"El Castaño": Emilio Botín's money-making factory

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Emilio Botín died of natural death, in the family residence of Somosaguas, at 9 o'clock in the morning of September 10, 2014 or was murdered the night before, by the lover of his daughter Ana Patricia, the Colombian drug trafficker Jesús Samper, in the Financial City of Boadilla del Monte?

This is a story, like all the ones that surround the Botín family, with all the ingredients of the best genre of the crime novel: money, lots of money, weapons, private plane, hunting farm with its own airstrip and drugs. The drug appears mixed with the Botín clan  always, in a tangential way, as if touching them but not touching them at all. And all the ingredients, which are many, all the pieces of this huge puzzle must be put together to offer this Case Botín, what we have called in La Tribuna de Cartagena "Rojo Botín " and that, although it seems a serial novel, It deals with truths like fists.

Since we published in a rigorous news scoop the possible murder of Emilio Botín, commissioned by his wife Paloma O'Shea and his daughter Ana Belén Botín, (the current president of Banco Santander) according to the lawsuit filed before judge Santiago Pedraz , in the National Court, we have been offering information, each of them more scandalous, but always treated with absolute rigor, running away from the sensationalism  and trying to compose for you that complicated puzzle that I referred to before. By the way:  despite the enormous seriousness of the information published, so far no one has been sued against La Tribuna de Cartagena ... for something will be .

The objective that we have set for ourselves at La Tribuna de Cartagena, within the most rigorous and methodical investigative journalism we have been carrying out around the possible murder of Spain's banker par excellence, is to break down each and every one of the hidden and inaccessible secrets of the Booty clan and that can be key pieces to know if Emilio Botín died of natural death, in his bed in the family residence of Somosaguas (a residence he had not used for months because he was separated from his wife, Paloma O'Shea), at the 9 in the morning of September 10, 2014, as the official version maintains, or if he died the night before, September 9, 2014, in the luxurious apartment that had been built inside the fort of the Financial City of Boadilla del Monte, murdered by the lover of his daughter Ana Patricia, the Colombian drug trafficker Jesús Samper, in collaboration with the security officers of Banco de Santander, Carlos Martínez, Carlos Rubio and José Manuel García Entrena, as stated in the complaint presented before the Central Court of Instruction number 1 of the National Court.

Jaime Botín will be judged for defrauding one million euros

Well, it turns out that Jaime Botín, brother of the deceased (or assinated) Emilio Botín, had accepted a penalty of nine months in prison for defrauding a million euros. What was the modus operandi ?The family plane acquired in 2012 and belonging to the company World Tour, owned by  the Botín clan . Since the plane was registered in Torrejón de Ardoz, Jaime Botín decided to "relocate" it and take it to Portugal to pay less aeronautical charges; yes, although it seems to be a lie, the Booties are capable of anything to save 50 euros!

Jaime Botín another old friend of the Spanish justice

Now it has been shown that the Spanish company diverted necessary funds to Portugal through the same checking account that was included as a financial guarantee in the rental contract with option to purchase the aircraft, current account of Banco Santander Totta, the Portuguese subsidiary of the Bank Santander. But the company, which had assumed the position of buyer of the plane, had given it to Air Nimbus.

The Public Ministry also points out that the defendants, who were aware of the existence of an inspection by the Tax Agency " at least since October 2016 ", agreed a month later to hold a General Shareholders' Meeting that ordered the liquidation of the World Tour and the award of the total of his social assets to Jaime Botín, former president of Bankinter.

In short and so that they do not get caught up in this fiasco, Jaume Botín did not contemplate the operation, neither in his personal income tax and income tax returns for the year 2016, nor in the informative declaration on assets and rights abroad.

In the end, Jaime Botín had accepted a conviction (when the surname is Botín is never convicted and the pacts with the Justice, the State Prosecution and Attorney's Office are common) or previously negotiated sentences are accepted, something like " condemnations to the letter ") of nine months of prison and 506,134 euros of fine for having allegedly defrauded one million euros for a crime of creating a network of companies in order to avoid facing the special tax on certain means of transport.

But this morning the surprise has jumped: although the former banker acknowledged before the judge had defrauded a million euros, rectified his position and did not accept the pact to have disclosed the news; thus things, we will attend the trial of a Booty but do not expect much. Los Botín are old acquaintances of the Spanish justice, great friends of the Spanish justice ...

Up to now, everything is normal: the  Botín clan is  used to eating crimes and the Attorney General's Office and the State Advocacy are accustomed to reaching agreements so that no Loot will ever step on any penitentiary center. In fact, to this Booty, Jaime, brother of the former president of the Bank of Santander, still has another " negotiation with the justice " to see why he gets an initial request of four years in prison and 105 million euros of fine for the Fraudulent sale of a Picasso painting. They neglect that in the end they will not pay 5 percent of the amount requested as a fine nor, under any circumstances, will anyone in prison who has such an illustrious and Cantabrian name surrender.

But the issue of airplanes and airstrips persecutes the Botín family so we are forced to tell you about the jewel of La Corona, the " El Castaño " farm .

The farm " El Castaño " consists of almost 5,000 hectares of land, in the province of Ciudad Real and has always been presented to the public as the place chosen by the great patron of banking to rest. According to the press of the system (almost all of the large Spanish media, that " bought press ", with shareholdings, advertising commitments or financial operations), Emilio Botín enjoyed at certain times of the year his farm, which he attended to enjoy nature. The farm " El Castaño " had a small airfield, current runway of 900 meters, which at the end of 20013 Botín did extend to the current 1,500 meters in length.

Located 38 kilometers from Ciudad Real and 170 from Madrid, bordering, to the north, with the municipality of Piedrabuena, to the south with Abenójar, to the east with Los Pozuelos de Calatrava and to the west with Puebla de Don Rodrigo and with Saceruela, the " El Castaño " farm is the real money factory of  the Botín clan .

What is the extension of the runway of the " El Castaño " farm? " farm "?

This aerodrome was used by Emilio Botín in his displacements and his extension had been decided before the necessity to be able to adapt it to be used by aircrafts of greater capacity of flight. Why did Botín need such a long runway on a farm that, in theory, only received small planes and small planes from the distinguished guests of the Botín family?

It has to be said that Botín has always won wills based on buying them. Money was never a problem for the president of Banco de Santander; so things, it was necessary to keep silent the mayor of the municipality closest to where the farm " El Castaño " is located: Piedrabuena, a town in the province of Ciudad Real, with less than five thousand inhabitants. The "generous " banker acquired Miraflores Castle for the town. In Piedrabuena all happy and grateful to the banker: no reply to his strange movements in " El Castaño". It also met the needs of Luciana, the municipal area of ​​the farm, a small town of less than five hundred inhabitants. Any social response was controlled.

Extension works of the runway

To build this new kilometer and a half long track, Emilio Botín personally made the management with the then Minister of Agriculture, Miguel Arias Cañete, with whom he was joined by a long friendship. The other necessary complicity was that of the president of Castilla La Mancha, and it would not be María Dolores de Cospedal who  refused the banker's wishes.

Finally Botín got the license to replace the old airfield in a real " private airport",  with a runway similar to the airports of La Coruña, San Sebastian or San Javier and even bigger than the airports of Córdoba, Melilla, La Gomera, El Hierro or Gibraltar.To give you an idea, the new " private airport"  of Emilio Botín (according to data from AENA itself) made only 200 operations a year, while Melilla, with a track 72 meters smaller, exceeds 8,000 operations and it transports 300,000 passengers in the same period of time.

Private airport of Botín where a plane crashed loaded of dorga

However, this extension of the airstrip is more than suspicious. Do not forget that six years earlier, on April 25, 2008, a plane loaded with more than 200 kilos of hashish, crashed on that same aerodrome. The official explanation of the accident was spread and accepted without any questioning by all that "bought press ". In the accident two people died (a Spanish and a Moroccan) and, according to the then government delegate in Castilla-La Mancha the transported drug was going to be loaded in several vehicles waiting for the goods in the "El Castaño" farm, leaving Loot completely outside this operation of clear case of drug trafficking.

The press of the system spoke of a tremendous scare for poor Botín, who, without eating or drinking it, saw how thenarcoavión  de marras crashed on his farm  . The official version was that the plane, registration F-GSGT, would have crashed trying to land, on the private runway of the hacienda. Civil Guard agents found two young people dead inside and nine large burlap bales that held 200 kilos of hashish. And immediately the unanswerable version spread that it was a fraudulent use of the runway that did not have any type of authorization or with the knowledge of its owner. Something possible, but strange, do not you find it strange that no media would question this official version?

But let's get back to that extension of the airstrip. The aerodrome of the " El Castaño" farm , before its extension, was already the largest private aerodrome in Spain.Why did Botín need an airport with a kilometer and a half track? What planes did you expect to land on your farm?What would be the origin of the aircraft that required such a long runway, perhaps trans-Atlantic flights? Did Botín need a runway in which they could land - with the utmost discretion and without any police control - aircraft coming from Colombia?

In successive articles we will surprise you with the " peculiar " relationships between the   existets between the  Clan Botín  and the largest drug trafficking network in the world, a rigorous journalistic investigation promoted by La Tribuna de Cartagena, nonexistent until now in Spain, and in which they have been working for an international network of reporters for months, coordinated by this journalist who subscribes. 

The lover of Ana Patricia Botín installed in the farm " El Castaño "

Jesús Samper Gaviria, sobrino del expresidente colombiano Ernesto Samper Pizano, vinculado al narcotráfico como gran capo de todos los cárteles, era el amante de Ana Patricia Botín, la actual presidenta del Banco de Santander. No se trató del caprichoso desliz de la hija del banquero sino de una relación amorosa de años que contó con el conocimiento –se supone que, también con el consentimiento- del marido de Ana Patricia, el aristócrata jerezano Guillermo Morenés, o Wily, como se le conoce en sus círculos más íntimos.

Ana Patricia Botín is suspected of inducing the murder of her father

Guillermo Morenés and Ana Patricia Botín were married in 1983. It was an agreed and convenient marriage, the aristocrat Emilio Botín needed for his family and the perfect wife for the youngest of the Marquesses of Borghetto, a family of Jerez landowners.Emilio Botín knew that these marriages, in the end, were the ones that worked best for the banking family business. In fact, that was how he had married Paloma O'Shea, following his father's orders, after an ugly affair between the young banker and a young prostitute of the famous Riscal, in Madrid in the fifties.At the official level, Guillermo Morenés was in charge of the agricultural business of the farm "El Castaño " farmEl Castaño ", the same one whose security was taken care of by the lover of his wife, Jesús Samper. Previously, the husband of the current president of Banco de Santander had worked with his brother-in-law, Javier Botín, in M ​​& B Capital Advisers, a company from which he had to leave after the " Madoff scandal " scam . Later he was an advisor to Inmoskye, a real estate development company, a partner of Alakin, a company dedicated to brokerage operations and a partner of Inversora Oquendo SL, a company dedicated to the rental of real estate.

But let's go back to the farm " El Castaño ";In addition to the largest private airport in Spain, the farm has the main house and twelve additional houses. It currently belongs to Javier Botín (brother of the president of the Banco de Santander) and adjoins the Santa María farm, owned by Ana Patricia Botín that exceeds 3,000 hectares.

But despite the excellent agricultural use of the hacienda and its enormous interest as a hunting ground, the great value of the " El Castaño " farm resides, precisely, in that airstrip and in the hidden tunnels that are hidden under it. that communicate with the neighboring farm of Santa María.

The hidden tunnels of the " El Castaño " farm " farm"

Nothing has ever been published about the hidden tunnels of the " El Castaño "farm , something that seems to have been taken from a science fiction movie but which, I assure you, are real and exist as life itself.

Precisely because of the importance of these tunnels stayed overnight on the farm, practically every day of the year, Jesús Samper, the lover of Ana patricia Botín, drug trafficker and security expert. What do these tunnels hide? This is the best kept secret of the  clan Botín , a secret of which the current King Emeritus was perfect connoisseur .

From La Tribuna de Cartagena we will continue to offer you timely information about these hidden tunnels that no one, to date, has referred to: " the authentic money making factory of the Botín clan ".

All the details of the hitherto unknown hidden tunnels of the " El Castaño " farm will be offered in successive deliveries of this " Rojo Botín ", perhaps the most courageous journalistic investigation of recent years, an investigation that we started uncovering the possible murder of the banker and the lawsuit filed before the National Court that accuses the lover of the current president of the Bank of Santander, Jesús Samper Gaviria  and the security officers of the Carlos Martínez Bank, Carlos Rubio and José Manuel García Entrena of executing Emilio Botín, following the instructions of his wife, Paloma O'Shea and his daughter Ana Patricia, also defendants.

The news scandal over the reports published by La Tribuna de Cartagena has had the absolute silence of the mainstream media, sold to the interests of  the Botín clan ; despite this and to date, more than three million readers! they have known the facts denounced by La Tribuna de Cartagena , information that social networks multiply inversely proportional to the silence of the large journalistic groups.