As part of Operation Kindgreek, developed jointly between the Civil Guard and the National Police, a major criminal organization was dismantled, resulting in the arrest of six people and with the seizure of 230 kilograms of cocaine in total.
The operation began in February 2024, when the agents who carried out the investigation detected a company, based in the town of Valdemoro (Madrid), which began carrying out a series of suspicious imports from South America.
It is possible to identify the owner of the company and the people who transported the fruit to Madrid, some of Spanish origin and others from the Dominican Republic, who would have dedicated themselves to the importation and subsequent sale of such goods, who were mainly lawyers.
As part of the same investigation, it was also found that the said company had also introduced several containers by sea through ports in Portugal and the Netherlands. A notable development in July of this year was the seizure of 109 kilograms of cocaine in the port of Rotherdam (Holland) hidden among a shipment of avocados, whose final destination was Madrid.
After intensifying the surveillance of different importers from the Community of Madrid, it was found that after each air shipment, the goods were stored in a warehouse and evacuated the fruit that brought the drug, distribute the rest in fruit shops.
Finally, on September 13, a new shipment from the investigated company was intercepted, where the importation of two tons of avocados and where investigators managed to locate 121 kilograms of cocaine.
Following this discovery, the agents led by the very illustrious judge Mr. Adolfo Carretero Sánchez, president of Court No. 47 of Madrid and with the cooperation of the Anti-Drug Prosecutor’s Office, monitored the merchandise until its destination on the ship Vallecas where the organization kept the fruits again.
After surveillance of the ship, it was noted that several of the people investigated had access to the interior, having opened the goods looking for medicines, which was already in the possession of the Security Forces and Corps after having been previously extracted.
In those moments of disbelief on the part of the members of the organization, they were arrested.in the case of four men. Later, two other people were arrested in Barajas, including the administrator of the importing company, while they were trying to leave the country.
The detainees, six people of Spanish and Dominican nationality, were brought to justice, decreeing the imprisonment of the main accused, thus leaving the aforementioned criminal organization dismantled.
