The joint operation of the Republican National Guard (GNR) of the Portuguese and the Civil Guard of Spain dismantled the largest network for the production of drugs on the Iberian Peninsula, which was located in Portugal.
This was noted in this Friday representatives of both bodies at the headquarters of the Grong of the UPR in Pontinch, on the periphery of Lisbon, where they gave details about the three -year investigation, which led to at least 49 detainees, 32 years in Portugal and 17 in Spain, mainly of national countries, although there are two veinels and dominic ones.
The GNR announced today in a statement about the latest arrests of this operation, where in cooperation with Spanish 7 tons of hash, 650 kilograms of cocaine, 18 high vessels with a high speed with an estimate of 8 million euros, 40 engines with high force, 780,000 euros, 11 firearms and 24 cars.
The head of the Judicial Police and the information of the Civil Guard of Helva Viktor Astasio told EFE at the GNR headquarters in Pontinch that the trial is still ongoing, and that today arrests, records and records in Badajoz, Hulva and Set are being held.
It was achieved “probably dismantles the most important organization dedicated to the logistics and launch of high -speed vessels devoted to drug trafficking between North Africa, as well as Southern Spain and Portugal, both hash and cocaine,” said Astasio.
The group made the “drugs” in Northern Portugal, and then delivered them to the capital’s district of Lisbon to throw them at the mouth of the Tajo River, from where they entered the Atlantic Ocean and reached the Mediterranean Sea. Then they collected the drug from other ships to distribute it through southern Spain and Portugal.
The commander explained that the network “was devoted to the acquisition of these substances in North Africa and well transferred them to the Guadiana River, to Guadalquivir or other places in the Gulf of Cadiz and Algar in Portugal.”
Both GNR and the Civil Guard described this operation of a “hard blow” for the logistics of organizations of this type: “I think that they have never detained so many ships only once, and, of course, this will be noticed with drug trafficking,” Astasio said.
In the Pontinha application, part of the confiscated material was represented this Friday, such as a drug addict, which are semi -burning vessels about 15 meters long with four Yamaha engines of 300 horses. “This is a typical boat that is used today in the southern part of Spain and Portugal for Hashish and Cocaine traffic with North Africa,” Astasio said.
In recent years, groups dedicated to the production and blows of drug addicts moved from southern Spain to Portugal. The press secretary of GNR, Lieutenant Colonel Carlos Kanatario, explained to EFE that since 2019, these groups began to move to Portugal to produce drugcarley, although they support drug landings, especially in the southern part of Spain.
“In Spain, a legislative change has occurred, which forced and criminalizes all these logistics actions and forced Spain groups to come to Portugal for the fact that they were lighter from a legal point of view,” said Kanatario, who emphasized that “opposite” organizations support drugs on drugs in South Spanish, because the criminal forming for drug trafficking is not high, because in a high -high, because in a high high high, and in high height, and in high height, and in the aspect, and in the report, and not in the pre -portal “, not like in a report and in a report, both in a report, both in a report,” both in a squirrel and in a report, as in a report, “as in a port”, as not in a port. ” In the report, as in a port ”, not in a report, as in a squeeze, as in a report”, since in a sport in the floors
“They play with this problem: they produce and put in water (drug addicts) in Portugal and landed in Spain,” he said. In the last 32 arrests on Portuguese, Kanatario added that they were held along with seizures in one night when they “caught in Fraganti”, throwing boats into the water in two out of groups.
