THE stepson of Marbella’s mayor has been sentenced to nine years in prison and a €4.9 million fine on charges of drug trafficking and money laundering.
Joakim Peter Broberg was ‘continuously involved’ in a scheme that smuggled hashish and marijuana between Spain and Northern Europe, particularly Sweden, the National Court ruled.
However, judges did not convict him of belonging to a criminal organisation after concluding he did not hold a hierarchical role within the group.
The Swedish stepson of right-wing Partido Popular’s Angeles Muñoz, Broberg was tried alongside 23 other suspects, 20 of whom were also convicted.
As part of their probe into the organisation, police seized 244 kg of marijuana in San Pedro de Alcantara and 500 kg of hashish in Granada.
The combined haul was valued at nearly €1.4 million.
Muñoz has been approached for comment.
Broberg first came under scrutiny in May last year after prosecutors accused him of laundering more than €7 million in suspected drug proceeds as part of a ‘Swedish mafia’ network operating on the Costa del Sol.
His late father Lars Broberg, who was married to Muñoz, was also alleged to have played a key role in the operation.
Testifying under oath during a 2025 hearing, a senior police inspector stated that six separate money-laundering operations worth €7.3 million had been traced to Joakim Broberg and his associates.
In three of those transactions, totalling €6.4 million, she said Lars Broberg was personally involved.
One of the key laundering schemes described involved the purchase of a luxury villa in Vega del Jaque, Benahavis, using nearly €3 million in cash routed through a Gibraltar-based company.
“It was done with a large amount of cash, which shows they had easy access to large sums of money,” the inspector added.
She also described how money was funnelled through tax havens, including Bermuda, Montenegro, and the British Virgin Islands.
Joakim Broberg, she said, had no declared income in Spain yet was linked to 19 inactive companies, most of them registered through an office in a Marbella shopping centre that also served as the address for many of his father’s businesses.
The inspector described a sophisticated operation in which illicit funds were used to buy land, build villas, and sell them on, often with the full knowledge and participation of Lars Broberg.
During one of the property raids, she said officers were ‘stunned by the high standard of living’ enjoyed by the suspects.
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With husband and stepson both involved in laundering drug money right wing mayor Angeles Muñoz must be a very unobservant woman not to have noticed what was going on under her roof.