MARBELLA (Source: El Pais) Fernando del Valle (photo, on hearing decision), a 62-year-old Chilean-born lawyer, pinned as the mastermind behind the Ballena Blanca (White Whale) operation, was ordered to serve a jail sentence of six years and three months and pay a 3.5-million-euro fine. His main co-defendant, Tunisian-born drug-trafficker Sophiane Hambli, was sentenced to three years and fined 1.5 million euros. Prosecutor Antonio Morales, who was asking for a 30-year sentence for Del Valle and higher sentences for the others, said that he will study whether to appeal the sentences before the Supreme Court.>
