National Police agents, in collaboration with Europol, have dismantled the largest criminal network in the Spanish uprising dedicated to drug trafficking and money laundering. In this operation, the agents have arrested 81 people and have intervened more than 2.000.000 euros in cash, more than half of which were hidden in a “Panic room” at the address of the head of the organization.
In the final operation - developed in Alicante, Valencia, Madrid, Galicia and Barcelona - more than 200 police officers intervened and 13 searches and 41 arrests were made.
The investigation began in January of 2018 when the National Police learned of the existence of a criminal organization, based in Alicante, allegedly dedicated to the trafficking of large-scale narcotic substances. Proven to such an extent, the agents observed that, in parallel, they were laundering the benefits of such illegal activity through different methods and systems.
The start of the investigation was very complex because the organization was very compartmentalized as well as perfectly structured and synchronized. In addition, its main members, who used extreme security measures, lacked a police record for drug trafficking (they were "white"). This required investigators to create joint investigation teams, both criminal and financial, as well as the collaboration of police from other countries. In this sense, the efforts of the police of countries such as Romania, Sweden, Portugal, Great Britain and Colombia joined.
Likewise, Europol collaborated with all the means and analysts available to it, by incorporating this operation into one of its preferred investigative actions with special dedication (EMPACT).
The organization had several completely watertight steps that performed those tasks entrusted to them by the leaders; It even had a security team to carry out against surveillance and tackle especially complex actions such as debt collection, extortion or "rollover." This last group was especially violent and got splashed by a murder in the town of Campello (Alicante).
As a result of international work, the agents detected a very strong Swedish criminal group that was beginning to move in Barcelona and with which the investigated organization came into contact in order to improve its infrastructure and capabilities. The collaboration between the National Police and the Swedish police allowed to locate the leader of this plot, which has been arrested along with three of his collaborators.
3.200 seized kilos of cocaine
With the advance of the investigation the apprehensions followed. From the middle of last year to date, and in different police interventions, the agents seized 3.200 kilos of cocaine whenever they intended to introduce them to the market through different concealment systems; from the blind hook or rip off to the use of a boat, through a truck trailer, the use of several heated cars or a clandestine laboratory. As a result of these operations, the agents initially arrested 20 people, and
subsequently to 18, all of them subcontracted by the criminal group investigated in order to move away from the management of the cocaine organization.
As a result of the police interventions of these cargoes of narcotic substance, which never reached their destination, the organization began to “dry out”, becoming its most reckless and daring members.
They began to make mistakes in their communications and in their dealings and this allowed researchers to detect several transfers of large amounts of money between the different leaders of the organization.
200 police officers, 41 arrests and 13 records
The last phase of the investigation, which has ended with 41 arrests and 13 registrations, has allowed one of the largest, and best-established, criminal structures in the Mediterranean Levant to be permanently neutralized. In total there are 150 people involved in the investigations and 81 arrested - 39 of them in previous phases and 42 in the last phase of exploitation. Likewise, 2.000.000 euros in cash, 3 firearms, jewels, precious stones, luxury watches, 73 vehicles, 2 sailboats and 1 yacht have been intervened. At the same time, agents have located properties worth 20 million euros and have frozen 800 checking accounts.
So far, detainees are charged with money laundering operations worth seven million euros.
The operation is still open and a new police phase is now being opened, consisting of analyzing all the information obtained, the intervened computers and the abundant documentation seized that, presumably, will provide more evidence and evidence of the criminal activity that the disjointed criminal organization developed.
Bravo Bravo to the Police.
This is the war that all citizens would participate.
Our children would live better, and the hp that we sell is M… ..
Eliminated