He main family clan attributed to controlling drug trafficking in the Palma-Palmilla district of Malaga is seriously diminished. The National Police carried out an extraordinary operation which led to the arrest of 13 of its members.
This has since been confirmed National Police Corps this Friday. Through an official note, they specify that those arrested are credited with being responsible for several incidents with firearms in recent times in this neighborhood (with the control of drug trafficking in the area as a trigger for several conflicts with d other rival groups).
In a a vast device carried out on October 9investigators arrested members of the clan for their alleged responsibility in the crimes of drug trafficking, money laundering, membership in a criminal organization, illicit possession of weapons and electrical fluid fraud.
At the same time, they practiced a total of nine home searchesdismantling four indoor marijuana plantations (253 cannabis plants seized), and also seizing four firearms, 246 cartridges, several knives, 24,000 euros in cash, four motor vehicles, as well as numerous documents relating to the money laundering group money.
Operation Golazo, carried out by the Section narcotics (UDYCO-Costa del Sol) and the Investigation and Asset Location Group -IPLA- of the Málaga Provincial Police Station, was initiated following a series of violent events that occurred in 2023.
The investigation revealed that members of the now dismantled clan were behind the incidents, one of them with use of firearmsand another with a stab wound.
Given the seriousness of these events, an investigation was opened, with the main aim of dismantling this criminal and violent group, for which it was necessary to confront it from a multidisciplinary point of viewwith two main objectives.
From an operational point of view, on the part of UDYCO-Costa del Sol, moving forward in the drug trafficking investigationto identify and completely dismantle a network of apartments housing indoor marijuana grow operations. And on the other hand, the economic assets, on the part of the IPLA group, to reveal the assets that the clan leaders would have obtained under the protection of the funds from their drug trafficking activities and detect possible drug trafficking operations. money laundering.
“Modus vivirdi”
Investigations helped prove that key members of the clan lacked legitimate livelihoods, as well as drug trafficking. modus vivendi. Likewise, numerous and varied money laundering operations have been carried out, applied to funds illegally obtained from the sale of crops generated on plantations.
The operations detected were diverse: use of straw men or trusted intermediaries, revenue sharing banking operations, real estate sales with payments in b or not, and the financing of purchases subsequently amortized with funds obtained from the sale of medicines, among others.
Finally, on October 9, the operational valorization of researchin a large system with the collaboration of GOES, Air Resources, Canine Guides, the UIP and the Scientific Police.
Real measures have been adopted regarding the property of those under investigation and They blocked bank accounts. It was also proven that all the houses with indoor cannabis sativa plantations were fraudulently connected to the electricity grid. The investigating court number 13 of Malaga is aware of the facts.
