The Spanish court sentenced Ana Maria Camino, known as the “Queen of Cocaine,” to 16 years in prison and paid $21 million, for laundering money from drug smuggling, through remittances to Panama.
The newspaper “Istria de la Panama” said that Ana Maria became a legend in drug smuggling, and managed to impose herself in a world full of men, until she became the “coca queen” for years, as she began trading coca when she was 14 years old, in order to meet her own needs.
The newspaper pointed out that at the age of 22 she fell into the hands of the police for the first time with a small amount of drugs that were in her home, and she spent three years in the Carabanchel prison in Madrid, but after her release she did not learn from the lesson and continued to trade drugs and even set up a drug lab in Spain .
She brought in 4 biochemists from Colombia who developed the cocaine-manufacturing process in the lab she set up, had relationships all over the world from the United States to Latin America and dangerous connections to her illegal business, and was arrested again for two years.
In 2013, she was released on conditions, then re-imprisoned again and the Spanish justice spent 16 years in prison and paid millions to the Spanish justice, as she is accused of drug smuggling, money laundering and illegal possession of weapons.
In various parts of Spain, this 51-year-old blonde, born in Borjos, has made a fortune: $50,000 worth of jewelry and watches, several luxury properties, high-end cars as well as cash, and has also set up a structure to launder drug money and turn it into products to be sent. its profits to Panama.