The other three detainees, whom investigators consider to be clients and at the same time collaborators of the alleged ringleader, were released without precautionary measures. In any case, the four detainees in the framework of Operation Horde, which broke out on Tuesday with several entries and searches in the towns of Ribadumia, Portas (Pontevedra) and Monterroso (Lugo), andThey are being investigated for crimes against public health, as reported by the Superior Court of Xustiza de Galicia (TSXG). In other words, although they are now on bail, the case remains open against the four accused. The case is being supervised by the president of the Instruction Court number 2 of Caldas (Pontevedra), who received the persons investigated on Thursday.
Agents of Group II of the Drugs and Organized Crime Unit (Udyco) of the National Police, based in Pontevedra, They had been following the lead investigator’s trail for almost a year.. And last Tuesday, they decided to launch the operation. They carried out a total of four entries and searches, including two homes linked to the alleged ringleader, one in Ribadumia and another in Portas. It was in the first of them that the agents found the drugs: seven kilos of cocaine and about 18 kilos of hashish. And it was also there that the largest sum of money in the operation was involved, around 140,000 euros in cash.
The police attack focused on Ribadumia and Portas, but also affected Monterroso, where two of the four detainees reside. The other individual, like the alleged leader, is a neighbor of Ribadumia. Although the three have been provisionally released, investigators, as police sources explained to ABC, They are seen as collaborators, but also clients, of the group’s imprisoned leader.
They operated as a kind of “wholesale”, that is, link in the distribution of medicines between large and small organizations traffickers. They accessed drugs through the most common channels: cocaine, which arrived by sea on the Galician coast, and hashish, from Andalusia, imported by road via Portugal. Researchers estimate that this group He could transport about 15 kilos of cocaine and 50 kilos of hashish per month. They worked with small batches, but with regularity and intensity. In addition, according to the same sources, they distributed the drugs themselves, either wholesale, in kilos, or retail, in grams.
