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Customs surveillance officers of the Tax Agency, as well as agents of the National Police, the National Police of Colombia and Europol have dismantled an organization that was smuggling cocaine into boxes intended for the transport of fruit to Spain, as reported by the Ministry of Finance.
The cargo He left Colombia and arrived at the port of Malaga under the legal cover of exporting fruit. Subsequently, the narcotic was transported to a laboratory located in Puebla de Montalbán (Toledo).
In total, they stopped 28 peopledistributed in Toledo (thirteen), Madrid (eight), Malaga (five) and Colombia (two); and they made inscriptions in Madrid (eight), Toledo (five) and Malaga (four).
Likewise, they intervened 47 kilos of cocaine, 20 kilos of cocaine base, 3,000 litres of liquid precursors and 300 kilos of solids, three firearms, 20 vehicles and more than 245,000 euros in cash.
The research dates back to August 2022, when the police received information from the liaison officer of the Spanish National Police in Colombia.
In this one, the possible contamination of a container to the port of Malaga, operated by two companies – one exporting and the other importing – linked to the fruit trade.
It was then that the The agents opened an investigation into the fruit import company, based in Malaga. Through these efforts, they were able to discover that this organization had met on several occasions with the children of a former Colombian hitman, head of a “collection office” that sold its services to Colombian cartels established in our country.
In recent years, This man had transformed his contract collection and killing business into an organization for the smuggling and distribution of cocaine. in Spain.
Thus, the Treasury detailed that The members of this family were settled in Madrid and Toledo. and they had a large number of properties, shelters, businesses, vehicles and a large group of people.
In Malaga, the subsidiary of the organization that owns the import company has rented a industrial warehouse in a small townwhere they replaced the cocaine-soaked boxes with new ones.
Afterwards, the contaminated boxes were transported to Madridwhere they remained hidden in a warehouse in the city of Leganés, amid strict security measures.
The new banana boxes were moved to Mercamadrid to continue simulating the commercial activity that served as a front. Once the drugs were received by the members of the organization in Madrid, they received the those responsible for extraction and processing drugs, who arrived in Spain for a short period of time, the time needed to extract the drugs.
One of these men was an experienced man.drug cook who had worked for the “Clan del Golfo” where he managed monthly productions of four tons of drugs.
