A great-grandson of Franco accused of “poaching”: he belongs to an illegal hunting network

A Juan Jose Franco Suelvesson of Francisco Franco Martinez-Bordiu and great-grandson of the coup dictator, the shots are backfiring him. The second son of the Marquis of Villaverde has been accused by the Seprona of the Civil Guard for having hunted up to five roe deer with illegal seals (licences), manipulated through an illegal hunting network, set up in a taxidermy business based in the city of Madrid. of Mostoles.

The Nature Protection Service (Seprona) has implicated Juan José Franco, 37, who, as will be remembered, married on November 8 in Abu Dhabi with Khali El-Assir, the second daughter of Abdul Rahman El Assir, arms dealer and close friend who has welcomed the emeritus, Juan Carlos Iin the capital of the United Arab Emirates.

The investigation accuses the now son-in-law of El Assir for manipulating hunting seals to kill roe deer in an irregular manner, in addition to another crime of continuous documentary falsification, and another one against flora and fauna, as published The confidential.

To carry out this illegal activity, the great-grandson of Franco used the network of poachers whose headquarters were the Taxidermy establishment in Móstoles, run by Walter Rene Soto Galanconsidered the best taxidermist in Spain, who has come to work at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid.

For this reason, the proceedings are investigated in Court Number 3 of the city in the southern area of ​​the Madrid community. Seprona has called the investigation “Ro3buck operation”, and 23 people and a good number of companies related to hunting are accused in the process.

Together with the descendant of the dictator, they are charged Alonso Alvarez de Toledo y UrquijoXII Marquis of Valdueza, one of the ones with the most hunting reserves in Spain and who is president of the National Board for Homologation of Hunting Trophies, Beatriz Fernández de Córdoba Ruiz de Ocejoshareholder of one of the most important gun shops in Madrid, Juan Bautista Hurtado de Amézaga Hamparzoumianrelated to several companies including the Marqués de Riscal winery, and other important names in the hunting activity, as well as lawyers, veterinary businessmen and well-known hunters.

The main crime for which the great-grandson of Carmen Polo It is the alteration of the official seals that authorize the hunting of a single animal. These roe deer hunting licenses cost up to 2,000 euros legally. In the case of wild males, the most valued, licenses can cost 15,000 euros.

The altered seals provided the hunting network with savings of thousands of euros in fees that it is imperative to pay in order to hunt. In addition, they were sold to third parties, so those involved obtained great benefits. In the seals they altered the dates and used them to hunt various game on different days as many times as they wanted, both in and out of season.

There have been 5 of the 123 licenses of different species found in the Mostoleña taxidemic that have been related to the newlywed in Abu Dhabi. The great-grandson of the coup general appears in the seal of a deer killed on a farm in Segovia on September 29, 2020 and had also used to justify the death of another piece on July 23 of that same year. There is also another license that justifies the hunting of two animals; one on November 1, 2020 in Sepúlveda, and another on September 1 of the same year.

In December 2020, Franco hunted in Valdenebro (Soria) another roe deer out of season whose seal had already been used in 2018, and a fifth seal that was missing in the Junta de Castilla y León and only includes the data “day 28”, without month or year, which is a serious irregularity.

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But the accusation is not unrelated to the fact that the second son of Maria de Suelves and FigueroaIn addition to being a great fan of hunting, he is professionally dedicated to this activity through the company Huntser, of which he is the CEO, which is dedicated to the processing of licenses and hunting reserves “in the best farms” in Spain, Africa , Argentina and Romania.

Family used to criminal records

Juan José is a “jewel” of the Franco family who already has a criminal record for various administrative offenses, for “disobedience or resistance to authority”, for non-compliance with weapons regulations, and many more irregularities in everything that refers to The hunt.

As the second son of Francisco Franco, Lord of Meirás and grandee of Spain, he seems to inherit his father’s arrogance and contempt for authority. Franco’s eldest grandson was tried in 2014 for having hit a Civil Guard patrol two years earlier on a forest road in the province of Teruel, when he was driving an SUV occupied by fugitive hunters. Convicted of various crimes in the first instance, the Provincial Court acquitted him for “lack of evidence”.

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This new accusation of his son comes when he has just married Khali, the second daughter of the Spanish Maria Fernandez Longoria y Abdul Rahman El Assir, of Lebanese origin, who has had an arrest and extradition order to Spain by Interpol since 2019. Here, the Prosecutor’s Office is demanding eight years in prison for him and the payment of almost 90 million euros for having defrauded the Treasury. He also has pending accounts in Portugal, France and Switzerland.

El Assir is a weapons manufacturer and close friend of former King Juan Carlos, who attended Juan José’s wedding accompanied by his escorts, a link in which he was also present. Tamara Falcoclose friend of the bride.