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Martiño Ramos Soto, a former music teacher and former Galician politician sentenced to 13 and a half years in prison for sexual abuse with sadistic practices against a minor student, arrived this Thursday at Madrid-Barajas Airport, accompanied by agents from the Spanish National Police, after being extradited from Cuba.
The Galician medium G24 shared a video on Instagram that documents the exact moment of their arrival at the boarding gate of the airport: at least two individuals can be seen with pixelated faces, one identified as a security agent wearing a yellow-green high-visibility vest, and the other in a gray t-shirt, with the fuselage of an aircraft in the background.
Ramos Soto, 50 years old and originally from Ourense, boarded a flight to Madrid from Havana on Wednesday after voluntarily agreeing to be transferred to Spain to serve his sentence.
Once in Madrid, the National Police took him to the courts at Plaza de Castilla, where the 44th Investigative Court, which was on duty, issued the order for his detention.
According to EFE, he has entered a prison in Madrid while awaiting a decision from the competent authorities regarding his final fate, with the Provincial Court of Ourense being the court that ordered his search and capture.
The Fugitive Section of the National Police confirmed that Ramos Soto was on Spain's "Most Wanted" list.
He was convicted by the Provincial Court of Ourense for sexually assaulting a student whom he had taught, contacting her in 2019 when the victim was 12 years old through Instagram, posing as another boy.
The abuse continued until 2021, when the victim was 16 years old, and included sadistic practices, slaps, beatings, and a beating after which she was left in the wilderness.
La menor sufrió graves secuelas psicológicas que incluyeron autolesiones e ingresos psiquiátricos, y presentó denuncia ante la Guardia Civil en 2021.
The Supreme Court confirmed the sentence on July 25, 2025. In addition to the prison term, the ruling included 21 and a half years of disqualification from professions involving minors, eight and a half years of supervised release, a 20 and a half year restraining order from approaching the victim, and a compensation of 30,000 euros.
Before he was notified of the finality of the sentence, Ramos Soto fled Spain that same month, following a planned route: by car to Portugal, then by plane to Brazil, Peru, and finally Cuba, a country he deliberately chose for lacking a current extradition treaty with Spain. It was also revealed that he arrived to plan to marry a Cuban to obtain permanent residency.
In Havana, a false identity was set up in the neighborhood of El Vedado under the name "Martín Soto."
During the process, sources close to the case reported that Cuba was putting bureaucratic and diplomatic obstacles in the extradition process.
Ramos Soto was also a former member of the leftist parties En Común and En Marea.
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