OLIVE PRESS
A GLAMOROUS woman known in police circles as ‘the model’ is facing ten years in jail for running a sprawling cocaine empire from her Marbella mansion.
Maria Teresa Jaimes Caicedo, whose 25-year trafficking network came crashing down as the Olive Press revealed in November 2022, traded in ‘Rolls-Royce’ branded blow.
Prosecutors are demanding eight years in jail for cocaine trafficking plus two years for belonging to a criminal organisation – with a €200,000 fine thrown on top.
Her criminal empire spanned from the Costa del Sol and the Costa Blanca in Spain to Denmark and Poland and Colombia.
Until the Colombian native’s arrest, she was leading a life of luxury, with no discernible income.
Police who raided her sprawling mansion complex were astonished at its opulence, boasting two swimming pools, a tennis court and ‘a garden that resembles the rainforest’.
Her downfall was the brick of branded 80%-pure cocaine they found in a walk-in wardrobe, already opened for guests to enjoy.
Police sources described her to this newspaper as ‘a real black widow’ for the fact that she had already seen two previous husbands put behind bars for smuggling.
Yet she herself managed to continue the family business and go under the radar for so many years.
A policeman from Greco, part of the National Police’s Udyco organised crime and drug unit, revealed how his colleagues were ‘amazed’ when they started investigating her VIP lifestyle.
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